Value for money is a huge sticking point for gaming purchases now. With prices escalating at an exponential rate, once trivial questions are now a huge issue: Making Nioh 3’s game length a make-or-break factor if the purse strings are tight.
Everyone’s different at the end of the day. You might prefer a short-to-medium-length game, whereas one of your close friends might enjoy the labor that comes with a 50-100-hour-plus open-world game. If you’re worried about Nioh 3 for either of these reasons, this guide has a full rundown on its game length, as the Insider Gaming team has played and wrapped up the full juicy journey.
How Many Hours To Beat Nioh 3?
If you play Nioh 3 quite casually, completing side content as you progress through the main game, you should expect to complete Nioh 3 in 30-40 hours—depending on your ability with Soulslike games.
There’s always an ugly ‘git gud’ attitude with Souls games, and it’s a negative stigma that tarnishes (not that kind of Tarnished) the Soulslike genre. We should all just get along and wallow in self-pity together, which Nioh 3 will have you doing.
The game is just as difficult as the first two entries, and if you don’t vary up your gameplay and become an expert at the game’s combat mechanics, there’s every chance your initial run will be the latter end of our estimated playtime—or more.
How Long Is A Nioh 3 Full Completionist Run?
You’re looking at least 60-80 hours if you want to soak up every bit of content that Nioh 3 has to offer and finish up a completionist run.
Whether you’re going for the Platinum Trophy or there’s that desire to squeeze out every single drop of content to justify your purchase, make no mistake, there’s a lot of it! There are multiple large regions to explore, each one split into various sub-areas.
Every location and destination has a variety of activities:
- Main story missions
- Side missions
- Optional sub-bosses
- Hot Springs
- Scampuss Collectibles
- Shrines and Bodhisattvas
- Six Jizo
- Enemy Bases
- Masters
- Chijiko
- Kodama
There are probably even one or two activities missing from this list; it’s that extensive. Nioh 3 won’t leave you feeling short-changed, just potentially frustrated. For context, Insider Gaming had the Platinum Trophy wrapped up in just under 60 hours, but there is a fair amount of experience here.
Either way, you should have agood idea of what to expect…so git gud!
Is Nioh 3 your first dip into Souls games? Or are you expecting it to be child’s play for a Soulslike sauvant like yourself? Let us know through the Insider Gaming Discord Server.
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