Nioh has offered two million demon-slashing copies

Team Ninja’s samurai-themed spin on the Souls-like, Nioh, has offered two million copies worldwide, the corporate introduced. The sport launched for PlayStation four in February 2017, and finally made its strategy to PC in November.

Nioh tells the story of William, an Irishman who finds himself in a demon-ravaged Sengoku-era Japan. With the assistance of samurai coaching from a colourful forged of characters – together with a two-tailed spirit cat – William learns to wield huge katanas, twin blades, and the brutal kusarigama, a weight hooked up to a scythe by an extended size of chain. 

The star of the present is the difficult fight, which options a number of combating stances and distinctive movesets for every weapon.

Nioh’s focus is on fight, but it surely’s nonetheless a role-playing sport at coronary heart. Here’s our checklist of the best RPGs on PC.

The PC port had a couple of points when it launched, together with a lack of mouse and keyboard support in menus. However, this has since been patched in, and the PC model, Nioh: Complete Edition, consists of all three of the sport’s DLC packs.

There’s no strategy to know the way a lot PC gross sales contributed to Nioh’s two million sales, however we will no less than hope that ports of fantastic Japanese video games proceed to make their strategy to the PC.