Nier: Automata - The End of Yorha Edition

NieR: Automata tells the story of androids 2B, 9S and A2 and their battle to reclaim the machine-driven dystopia overrun by powerful machines. The NieR: Automata - The End of YoRHa Edition includes the game…

89 6 October 2022

Adventure Hack and slash/Beat 'em up Role-playing (RPG) Action Drama Open world Science fiction

Nier: Automata - The End of Yorha Edition is an adventure developed by PlatinumGames, released 6 October 2022 on Nintendo Switch.

Verified 27 Sep 2026 Sources: IGDB , Wikipedia

What Nier: Automata - The End of Yorha Edition is

Nier: Automata - The End of Yorha Edition is an adventure game developed by PlatinumGames and released in 2022. It was published by Square Enix. It is available on Nintendo Switch only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The first and second playthroughs follow the respective views of 2B and 9S during an initial invasion. After opening a route for future missions, they are sent to clear out machine threats for the Resistance, led by Anemone, who provides the two with support. During their missions, 2B and 9S discover that the machines are exploring human societies and concepts. The two work with a pacifist machine group led by Pascal; battle Adam and Eve, physical manifestations of the machine network who reveal that their creators were destroyed centuries ago and encounter A2, a rogue android on the run from YoRHa. Adam is killed by 2B after he captures 9S. During his recuperation, 9S discovers a glitch in…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, drama, open world and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Drakengard series

Nier: Automata - The End of Yorha Edition is the 33rd of 35 entries we hold in the Drakengard series. It arrived 12 months after NieR Re[in]carnation: The Sun and the Moon. The next entry was NieR: Automata - 6C2P4A118680823 in 2022. Its critic score of 89 is 21 points above the series average of 68. The highest-rated entry is Nier: Automata - Become as Gods Edition at 89.

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How it was received

Nier: Automata - The End of Yorha Edition holds a critic score of 89 out of 100. That places it above 91% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2022 averaged 74, so it scored 15 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Nier: Automata - The End of Yorha Edition launched on 6 October 2022, within three weeks of A Plague Tale: Requiem, Scorn, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord and Return to Monkey Island. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4. It arrived 5 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: A Plague Tale: Requiem, Scorn, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord, Return to Monkey Island.

Cheats and codes

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