Nioh 3 is heading to PS5 and PC in 2026, full with two distinct fight kinds

Nioh 3 is heading to PlayStation 5 and PC in 2026 and you will get a style of its Sengoku setting and darkish samurai motion on Sony’s console proper now. A demo for the sport is dwell right this moment on PS5 and it will be out there by way of June 18, courtesy of developer Group Ninja and writer Koei Tecmo.

The sport reveal was a pleasant shock throughout Sony’s State of Play occasion right this moment, and it got here with a trailer showcasing large, demonic creatures and frantic motion scenes. Very similar to its predecessors, Nioh 3 is a darkish fantasy motion RPG set in 15-century Japan. The unique Nioh got here out in 2017 and its sequel landed in 2020, with a handful of Lifeless or Alive installments launched in between.

Nioh 3 introduces a brand new fight system to the collection that lets gamers swap between two distinct combating kinds, Samurai and Ninja. Samurai is just like earlier Nioh titles with a concentrate on close-range martial arts, whereas Ninja allows fast reactions like dodging and aerial strikes. Gamers will be capable to change fight kinds on the fly. Nioh 3 options an open world — Group Ninja calls it an “open subject,” really — to discover, as effectively.

“Apart from the brand new battle kinds, Nioh 3 additionally allows gamers to get pleasure from an open subject that provides a brand new freedom of exploration to the distinctive rigidity and confrontations which have change into a defining attribute of the Nioh collection,” Group Ninja head Fumihiko Yasuda mentioned on the PlayStation Blog. “Expertise surprising encounters with formidable yokai, discover suspicious villages riddled in violent secrets and techniques, and tackle the daunting challenges of The Crucible.”