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Nioh 2 – The Complete Edition
Battle hordes of yokai in this masocore Action RPG. Create your protagonist and embark on an adventure through a myriad of locales across Japan during the Sengoku period. Utilize the new Yokai Shift ability to defeat even the most ferocious yokai and be prepared to brave through Dark Realms created
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
What reviewers agree on
57 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“Hands down my favorite game of all time, a perfect masterpiece that may end up a timeless game. Seamlessly blends a compelling story with outstanding gameplay, and near infinite replayability. I am hopeful Nioh 3 will…”
“Does a great job improving upon the mechanics from 1, while adding new features to combat that makes this playthrough refreshing. A step up in difficulty from 1, however, with the additions mentioned the game feels the…”
“Left Nioh 1 midway cuz it was unfair af. But this one, just wow. Its fun and addicting. Combat is amazing and graphics is fine and smoooth! ALL THEM TASTY WEAPONS AND ARMOR!!!”
15 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“Nioh 2’s combat system is extremely complex and yet somehow I keep coming back for more. Every fight is a tiny adrenaline puzzle, and every Yokai is eager to remind me I’m not as good as I think. The loot system is…”
“One of the best Action Games ever made. Punishing but fair Difficulty. A huge varierty of Weapons, Skills and Armors. Insane build varierty, going from full on Ninja, over classic Samurai all the way to Full on Mages…”
“Simply amazing, what a fun game. The difficulty is just right, at least for me. Sadly, much like the previous title, the story is quite mediocre so don't go into it expecting great storytelling, I did find some of the…”
10 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“Does a great job improving upon the mechanics from 1, while adding new features to combat that makes this playthrough refreshing. A step up in difficulty from 1, however, with the additions mentioned the game feels the…”
“Left Nioh 1 midway cuz it was unfair af. But this one, just wow. Its fun and addicting. Combat is amazing and graphics is fine and smoooth! ALL THEM TASTY WEAPONS AND ARMOR!!!”
“Not a game for me, while I loved Elden Ring and other From Soft games, I also love the Ninja Gaiden games but I just couldn't get into Nioh 2 at all. I had to refund it as it was just not any fun for me at all. The…”
6 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“Left Nioh 1 midway cuz it was unfair af. But this one, just wow. Its fun and addicting. Combat is amazing and graphics is fine and smoooth! ALL THEM TASTY WEAPONS AND ARMOR!!!”
“Not a game for me, while I loved Elden Ring and other From Soft games, I also love the Ninja Gaiden games but I just couldn't get into Nioh 2 at all. I had to refund it as it was just not any fun for me at all. The…”
“Great game- Completed after 100 hours and loved it. It is difficult for sure with the Ki management (Stamina) but you do learn to manage it. The bosses while challenging aren't as difficult as some FromSoft bosses but…”
6 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“Now that I have played through the game and gotten all the achievements, I can update my review. At this point I've spent 200+ hours playing this game. I originally thought that I would play it for maybe 70-80 hours.…”
“I just finished playing Nioh 2. Nioh 2 is harder than Nioh 1. Nioh 1 took around 30 to 40 hours to finished game with doing side mission. Nioh 2 took almost 100 hours to finished. i did 90 percent of side mission. i…”
“Great game- Completed after 100 hours and loved it. It is difficult for sure with the Ki management (Stamina) but you do learn to manage it. The bosses while challenging aren't as difficult as some FromSoft bosses but…”
12 of the 104 reviews raise this · 7 of them still recommend the game.
“Recycled content the videogame. Yes I beat the game and all DLC except the last one at the time of writing. So no git gud ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ here. Difficulty comes from layer upon layers of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Enemy variety is low and are…”
“I went into Nioh 2 expecting something solid, but not something I’d fully grind out… and somehow I ended up almost 100%ing it. Let me be real straight up. 7.5 / 10 The biggest weakness is the story. It’s mid. It never…”
“[h3]What goes around, comes around! Real ones know that the enemy behavior in Souls games is heavily inspired by 3D Ninja Gaidens, just their animations slowed down to 50%-ish. Anyway, this is Team Ninja giving us a…”
10 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“Recycled content the videogame. Yes I beat the game and all DLC except the last one at the time of writing. So no git gud ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ here. Difficulty comes from layer upon layers of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Enemy variety is low and are…”
“I've played until the end of twilight, and I really tried to like the game, but I can't. First of all, many of the enemy attacks can't be dodged out mid-animation. If you're hit by the first attack, then you have to…”
“Not a game for me, while I loved Elden Ring and other From Soft games, I also love the Ninja Gaiden games but I just couldn't get into Nioh 2 at all. I had to refund it as it was just not any fun for me at all. The…”
7 of the 104 reviews raise this · 6 of them still recommend the game.
“I went into Nioh 2 expecting something solid, but not something I’d fully grind out… and somehow I ended up almost 100%ing it. Let me be real straight up. 7.5 / 10 The biggest weakness is the story. It’s mid. It never…”
“Now that I have played through the game and gotten all the achievements, I can update my review. At this point I've spent 200+ hours playing this game. I originally thought that I would play it for maybe 70-80 hours.…”
“[h2]Nioh 2: Complete Edition - A very well designed sequel to the first installment[/h2] Combat mechanics in this game is where the gameplay gets deep. You choose from low, medium and high stances and during a low…”
7 of the 104 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“I wish I could just disable all particle effects and shiny bells and whistles. I cannot follow what is happening on screen. 😅 Not an old-eyes friendly game sadly.”
“the breasts on the snakes are too small”
“I really struggle to understand why this game is highly regarded when it comes to action-oriented combat, bosses, and basically everything that makes a souls-like/slasher/etc game great. I can't call it anything more…”
5 of the 104 reviews raise this · 1 of them still recommend the game.
“Recycled content the videogame. Yes I beat the game and all DLC except the last one at the time of writing. So no git gud ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ here. Difficulty comes from layer upon layers of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Enemy variety is low and are…”
“I've played until the end of twilight, and I really tried to like the game, but I can't. First of all, many of the enemy attacks can't be dodged out mid-animation. If you're hit by the first attack, then you have to…”
“I wanted to like this game desperatly, started over 3 times with months if pause between each run (hence the 71 hours playtime), but its just the most unfun bossfights ever. I completed Elden Ring with the insane DLC…”
Counted across 104 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 87.8% positive rating · as of 2026-05-20
“Yes, Nioh 2 is a Souls-like: Explore and unlock shortcuts, fight in tight spaces with a messed up camera, lose all your XP, and maybe level up at shrines. All blended with ninja gaiden style combat and hack&slash/Diablo-style looting. That said, if performing a spectacular…”
— a player, Steam review · 120 hrs played“[i] Review after first playthrough (base game) [/i] ---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Masterpiece ☐ Beautiful ☐ An original artistic direction ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ normal ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS + while probably not the best looking game from…”
— a player, Steam review · 65 hrs played“[h1] I’ve played Nioh 2, but... [/h1] Bought this game because someone on the internet said that the Nioh Franchise is way harder than FromSoftware’s games. But after playing it myself... Well, I don’t think it’s that tough. Honestly, for a Soulslike, it’s actually pretty easy.…”
— a player, Steam review · 124 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-24 01:03 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.
Price tracking
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Screenshots
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Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Action, RPG |
| Player tags | RPG · Action · Souls-like · Character Customization · Difficult · Co-op · JRPG · Multiplayer · Dark Fantasy · Fantasy · Historical · Hack and Slash (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · Co-op · Online Co-op · Steam Achievements · Steam Trading Cards · Partial Controller Support · Steam Cloud |
| Languages | English * , French, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Spanish - Latin America, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese * , Korean, German * |
| Achievements | 88 |
| Estimated owners | 1,000,000 – 2,000,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://teamninja-studio.com/nioh2/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows® 10 64bit Processor: Intel Core i5 4460 or over Memory: 6 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 or over, VRAM 4GB or over DirectX: Version 11 Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 85 GB available space Sound Card: 16 bit stereo, 48KHz WAVE file can be played