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Nioh: Complete Edition

PlayStation 5 • 2017

Should you play it?

Ready to die? Experience the newest brutal action game from Team NINJA and Koei Tecmo Games. In the age of samurai, a lone traveler lands on the shores of Japan. He must fight his way through the vicious warriors and supernatural Yokai that infest the land in order to find that which he seeks.

What works

  • Deep and rewarding combat system
  • Extensive weapon and build customization
  • Challenging and fair difficulty
  • Co-op multiplayer support
  • Rich feudal japan setting with fantasy elements

Things to keep in mind

  • Repetitive level design and enemy reuse
  • Steep learning curve and high early difficulty
  • Inventory management can be tedious
  • Story and characters considered weak
  • Pc port had initial optimization and control issues

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • ELDEN RING

  • DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED

  • Nioh 2 – The Complete Edition

  • Blades of Time

  • Hellsweeper VR

  • STRANGER OF PARADISE FINAL FANTASY ORIGIN

More relaxing

Games that feels like Nioh: Complete Edition but with a more relaxing feel

  • SAMURAI WARRIORS 4-II

  • MONSTER HUNTER RISE

  • Shadow Warrior 2

  • Dungeons of Sundaria

  • DYNASTY WARRIORS 8: Xtreme Legends Complete Edition

  • RuneScape: Dragonwilds

Less competitive

Games that feels like Nioh: Complete Edition but with less competition against others

  • Dead Space™ 3

  • REMNANT II®

  • Evil West

  • Space Hulk: Deathwing Enhanced Edition

  • CODE VEIN

  • Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide

Less social

Games that feels like Nioh: Complete Edition but with less teamwork and cooperation

  • The First Berserker: Khazan

  • Devil May Cry 5

  • God of War Ragnarök

  • The Surge

  • The Surge 2

  • DOOM Eternal

More intimate

Games that feels like Nioh: Complete Edition but with more focus on close relationships

  • Hunted: The Demon’s Forge™

  • DARK SOULS™ III

  • GOD EATER 3

  • ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN

  • Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2

  • Warhammer: Vermintide 2

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Nioh 2 – The Complete Edition

  • Nioh 3

  • STRANGER OF PARADISE FINAL FANTASY ORIGIN

  • NINJA GAIDEN 2 Black

  • NINJA GAIDEN 4

Similarity map

How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Nioh: Complete Edition: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Fellowship, Domination. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Violence, Fantasy. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Relaxation.

Last update: 04/08/2026