Nioh: Defiant Honor (2017) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Nioh: Defiant Honor

Nioh: Defiant Honor is the second DLC expansion for the action role-playing game Nioh, developed by Team Ninja and published by Koei Tecmo. Released in July 2017, this expansion continues the story of…

85 25 July 2017

What Nioh: Defiant Honor is

Nioh: Defiant Honor is an adventure game developed by Team NINJA and released in 2017. It was published by Koei Tecmo. It is available on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Nioh is a 2017 action role-playing game developed by Team Ninja and Kou Shibusawa and published by Koei Tecmo for the PlayStation 4. Sony Interactive Entertainment published the game outside Japan on PlayStation consoles. Nioh 2, a prequel to Nioh was released on PlayStation 4 in March 12, 2020. A port to Windows including all downloadable content was released the same year while a remastered version was released for PlayStation 5 on 5 February 2021.

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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative and Single player.

Where it sits in the Nioh series

Nioh: Defiant Honor is the fourth of 17 entries we hold in the Nioh series. The next entry was Nioh: Bloodshed's End in 2017. Its critic score of 85 is almost exactly the series average of 84. The highest-rated entry is Nioh: Bloodshed's End at 90.

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How it was received

Nioh: Defiant Honor holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 82% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 14 points above the year average.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 5 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 8 hrs, roughly 1.6 times the length of the critical path.

What it launched against

Nioh: Defiant Honor launched on 25 July 2017, within three weeks of Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Sonic Mania and Splatoon 2. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4. It was a PlayStation 5 launch-window title.

Released around the same time: Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Sonic Mania, Splatoon 2.

Cheats and codes

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