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

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 via 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 huge, 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 preventing types, Samurai and Ninja. Samurai is much like earlier Nioh titles with a give attention to close-range martial arts, whereas Ninja permits fast reactions like dodging and aerial strikes. Gamers will have the ability to change fight types on the fly. Nioh 3 options an open world — Group Ninja calls it an “open subject,” really — to discover, as properly.

“Apart from the brand new battle types, Nioh 3 additionally permits gamers to take pleasure in an open subject that gives a brand new freedom of exploration to the distinctive pressure and confrontations which have develop 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.”