Nioh 2 is an upcoming action role-playing game developed by Team Ninja, and published by Koei Tecmo in Japan and Sony Interactive Entertainment internationally. As a successor and a prequel to Nioh (2017), the game is set to be released for the PlayStation 4 on March 13, 2020.

Similar to its predecessor, Nioh 2 is an action role-playing game. Players can create their own playable character, who was a yōkai spirit. Players are equipped with a variety of weapons such as odachi and kusarigama, and earn new skills as they progress in the game.When players defeat a hostile yōkai, some of them may drop a “Soul Cores”. They allow players to use yōkai abilities and transform into a yōkai after they are deposited in a shrine.

At locations named “Benevolent Graves”, players can summon at most two avatars of other players, controlled by artificial intelligence, to assist them in combat.The game also features a three-player cooperative multiplayer mode.

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