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Rise of the Ronin
Embark on an epic journey across war-torn 19th-century Japan in this open-world action RPG from Team NINJA, the veteran studio behind "Nioh" and "NINJA GAIDEN."
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-02 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-13.
What reviewers agree on
29 of the 107 reviews raise this.
“Im glad that I ignored the reviews. The game, as all of "nioh style"games, has deep and flash combat. I think this is one, if not the best, straight forward open world games I`ve played. Everything is made to be quick…”
“One of the better releases from Team Ninja. I love the setting of this game. Exploration is fun, but the combat is the bread and butter. It is super fluid once you get the hang of it. I enjoyed it thoroughly. The game…”
“Rise of the Ronin starts off strong with a solid setting and combat, and the English dub is surprisingly good. The heavy Japanese accents actually add to the atmosphere rather than feeling distracting. The story and…”
7 of the 107 reviews raise this.
“Excellent game, highly recommended RPG with a different flavour thanks to the 1800s Japan setting. Zero performance issues on modern hardware in my experience; Ryzen 7800 x3d Radeon RX 9070 32gig DDR5 RAM Hopefully if…”
“After avoiding this one for some time due to negative reviews, I thought I would give it some time for some optimisation. Although the game could still do with a little, it does hold up well when using frame gen. The…”
“Update: 20 hours in and yeah it’s still good really good in fact the fashion alone is peak. Almost 7 hours and I’ve had 0 problems it runs great and is a blast to play. The story is also quite interesting and I look…”
3 of the 107 reviews raise this.
“An absolutely underrated gem. Some people might have issues with crashes or frame rates, but I never ran into any of that. The combat system is the deepest you can find in an open-world game today. The dojo even feels…”
“I honestly don't understand why this has mixed reviews. Great game. The only bug I've experienced is sometimes the screen gets way too bright if you turn on frame generation but it fixes if you turn it off or restart.”
“I thought it was a pretty good game, I didn't have any performance issues either than one crash. I was surprised to see this game have mixed reviews cause I found it pretty fun.”
22 of the 107 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
“This needs to be cheap, as the performance takes a big hit, coz we are paying way too much for a poorly optimized game. Refunded”
“Performance is bad. But wow, what a game. I bought it on sale just out of curiosity and it was not what I expected at all. Some of these reviews make me wonder if we're playing the same game. First off, this game does…”
“game is good but its practically unplayable. please fix this. something as simple as too many things on the screen at once breaks it completely. cannot recommend right now.”
15 of the 107 reviews raise this · 5 of them still recommend the game.
“I love Team Ninja games for their excellent combat gameplay and usually more focused experience, settings, level design etc. Ninja Gaiden and Nioh are some of my fav games. But now, they too want to jump on this big…”
“[i]Rise of the Ronin[/i] is game with about 10 hours of solid gameplay stretched out to 70. On the surface, it is the same Team Ninja ARPG package—a solid combat system wrapped in an unnecessarily drawn out plot with…”
“As a person who likes Nioh, I don't get the hate for this game. The open world is very repetitive and enemy variety is low, but I loved the vibes, the setting and the combat. Which is ultimately why you play team ninja…”
3 of the 107 reviews raise this.
Counted across 107 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 63.1% positive rating · as of 2026-05-13
“I picked up Rise of the Ronin during a winter sale, fully aware of the mixed (and sometimes brutal) reviews floating around. Expectations were kept safely low. Surprisingly, after spending a good amount of time with it, the game turned out to be far more enjoyable than its…”
— a player, Steam review · 97 hrs played“Yes, but... That's the most important part of this review. Do I recommend this game? Yes. But that's with some MAJOR caveats and flaws. This game is a marvelous example of overcomplicating games and bloating with content. Let me list some examples. I believe there are 52…”
— a player, Steam review · 135 hrs played“Its not a bad game perse but they downgraded the graphics since release reducing the LODS and grass heavily for every user as "perfomance patchs" to the point it looked like a different game and never bothered to fix it. This is bad behavior and unfortunately pretty common on PC…”
— a player, Steam review · 69 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 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 2026-09-05.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Nominate Us for the Steam Awards!
The Steam Awards 2025 nominations are open now! We hope you can nominate Rise of the Ronin for "Outstanding Story-Rich Game Award". Of course, if you think other categories are more suitable, then ple
Rise of the Ronin Steam-Ver. 1.09.0.5 (11/11/2025)
We discovered a bug that caused the game to crash after certain Windows updates were applied. Testing revealed that this bug caused the game to crash when certain characters or equipment appeared on-s
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Rise of the Ronin Steam-Ver. 1.09.0.4 (04/30/2025)
■Bug fixes ・Added a recovery process for save data with issues in progressing the bond mission "In Search of New Knowledge" Once the patch is applied, starting gameplay will repair the issue. ・Improve
Rise of the Ronin Steam-Ver. 1.09.0.3 (04/10/2025)
■System Updates and Adjustments ・Added option ”Dynamic Adjustment of FPS” When turned on, the set FPS will change dynamically according to performance for a consistent gameplay experience. ・Optimizati
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, RPG |
| Player tags | RPG · Action RPG · Open World · Action · Swordplay · Third Person · Adventure · 3D · Historical · Singleplayer · Online Co-Op · Gore (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · Co-op · Online Co-op · Steam Achievements · Steam Trading Cards · Captions available · Partial Controller Support |
| Languages | English * , French * , Italian * , German * , Spanish - Spain * , Dutch, Swedish, Spanish - Latin America * , Thai, Danish, Turkish, Norwegian, Finnish, Portuguese - Brazil * , Portuguese - Portugal, Polish, Russian, Sim… |
| Achievements | 51 |
| Official site | https://teamninja-studio.com/ronin/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows® 10/11 64bit Processor: Intel Core i5-10400 or better, AMD Ryzen 5 1600 or better Memory: 16 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (VRAM 6GB) or better, AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT (VRAM 8GB) or better DirectX: Version 12 Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 155 GB available space Sound Card: 16-bit stereo with 48KHz playback Additional Notes: SSD required. Poor SSD performance may affect gameplay. Multi-channel memory architecture recommended. This game is expected to run at 1080p/30FPS under the lowest graphics set