Launching Nioh 3 on PC at The Same Time As PS5 Is Paying Off for Koei Tecmo As New RPG Smashes Player Counts For the Series on Steam

Nioh 3 has lone been retired a fewer hours, but it's already the biggest Nioh crippled connected Steam ever.

While its 2 predecessors — called Nioh and Nioh 2, predictably capable — did yet marque it to Steam, the PC releases came respective months aft the PlayStation debuts.

Now, however, arriving connected Steam connected merchandise time successful parity with its PlayStation version, Nioh 3 is already the biggest Nioh crippled successful the franchise's history, with implicit 54,400 concurrent players astatine the clip of penning (and rising the full clip I'm penning this). By comparison, according to SteamDB, the archetypal crippled lone reached a highest of astir 10,649 concurrents, and the sequel reached 41,325.

"Nioh 3 delivers best-in-class combat that revitalizes the established look with a fantastic divided betwixt Samurai and Ninja styles, arsenic good arsenic a triumphant determination to an open-world structure," we wrote successful IGN's Nioh 3 review, which returned an 'Amazing' 9/10.

"Even successful a genre that’s go arsenic saturated arsenic the soulslike, there’s inactive thing that hits rather similar the Nioh series, and Nioh 3 stands retired arsenic the champion of the trilogy. The determination to an unfastened satellite operation isn’t perfect, but the rewarding exploration, gorgeous landscapes, and thrilling optional brag battles mostly screen immoderate insignificant issues.

"Strap connected apical of that best-in-class combat, hugely customizable physique crafting, a lengthy run with a heavy New Game+ mode wherever the loot strategy really shines, and a godsend of an auto-equip diagnostic earlier you get there, and you’ve got yet different Team Ninja banger that sits astatine the apical of the soulslike genre," we said.

Nioh 3 is retired contiguous (February 6) connected PC via Steam and PS5, but the game's latest trailer suggests Xbox and perchance Nintendo Switch 2 owners whitethorn not person to hold agelong for a mentation of their own. Don't hide that you tin effort earlier you bargain with a demo and yes, your advancement carries implicit to the afloat game.

Vikki Blake is simply a newsman for IGN, arsenic good arsenic a critic, columnist, and advisor with 15+ years acquisition moving with immoderate of the world's biggest gaming sites and publications. She's besides a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her astatine BlueSky.