Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch

"Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch, a heart-warming tale of a young boy named Oliver, who embarks on a journey into a parallel world in an attempt to bring his mother back from the dead. Along the way…

84 17 November 2011

Adventure Role-playing (RPG) Action Fantasy Kids Open world

Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch is an adventure developed by LEVEL-5, released 17 November 2011 on PlayStation 3. The main story takes about 58.5 hrs to finish.

Verified 16 Oct 2026 Sources: IGDB , Wikipedia

What Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch is

Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch is an adventure game developed by LEVEL-5 and released in 2011. It is available on PlayStation 3 only. It runs on Havok.

The premise, in the publisher's words

After a young boy named Oliver loses his mother, his tears bring a fairy companion named Drippy to life, who reveals the existence of a parallel magical world threatened by a dark wizard called Shadar. Learning that people in his world have "soulmates" bound to counterparts in the other, Oliver sets out on a journey there in the hope that saving a great sage who resembles his mother might somehow bring her back. Guided by Drippy and joined by new friends along the way, he travels a vast and wondrous land, mending the broken hearts left in Shadar's wake as he grows from a grieving child into a courageous young hero.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, kids and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Ni no Kuni series

Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch is the second of 13 entries we hold in the Ni no Kuni series. It arrived 11 months after Ni no Kuni: Dominion of the Dark Djinn. The next entry was Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom in 2018. Its critic score of 84 is almost exactly the series average of 85. The highest-rated entry is Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch Remastered at 90.

See all 13 Ni no Kuni games in release order →

How it was received

Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch holds a critic score of 84 out of 100. That places it above 81% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2011 averaged 68, so it scored 16 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 85, across 207 votes.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 58.5 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 149.1 hrs, roughly 2.5 times the length of the critical path.

What it launched against

Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch launched on 17 November 2011, within three weeks of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, Minecraft: Java Edition and Assassin's Creed Revelations. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.

Released around the same time: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, Minecraft: Java Edition, Assassin's Creed Revelations.

Cheats and codes

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