Nioh: Complete Edition

Nioh: Complete Edition

Fair · RPG · 2017

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The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 90% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$49.99Fair

Typical seasonal cut

$7.4985% offFair

Cost per hourA
$1.20/hr
Reviews▼
79% of 39,238
Critics
84 players 5 lower
Genre rank
Top 18% RPG

Holding it back: Recent reviews, Reviews

Recent reviews trending down: 66% over the last 30 days against 79% all-time.

Watch this gameOne alert at $7.49 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
41.7h
To 100%
142.5h 3.4x the story
Achievements
79

Price and sales

Sales
54 on record
Typical cut
75% off
Steam low
$4.99 December 2025
Sale every
52d last October 2026
Lowest now $49.24 at Fanaticalall-time low $4.20 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
232 now
Recent reviews
66% 30 days
Cheaper than
2% of its genre
Better reviewed
73% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

74% start to 3% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

54 discounts in the 9 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Its score sits in the top 18 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 73 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Nioh 2 – The Complete Edition ($49.99, scores 70) beats it on value, while it beats Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty ($39.99, scores 0).

More about Nioh: Complete Edition

Players rate it 79 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 66 percent. Something recent has soured the room. 6 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2026 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 33 percent of the 2,243 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.

Finishing takes 41.7 hours; clearing it takes 143, which is 3.4 times the campaign.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Last discount ended 31 days ago.

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Cost per hour$1.20/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Recent reviews66% (30 days)
Trending down vs lifetime, a small dip
For context
Refunds6 of 800 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

Just clearing up my backlog! I had beaten the base game a long time ago, but just got back to the DLC. The game is rad. If I had to go back in time, I'd tell myself to buy this sooner. It's true they ripped the hell out of Dark Souls, but to Team Ninja's credit, they make the formula their own. Nioh's selling point is the combat; it's busier, more complex. Not better or worse than FromSoft's stuff, imo, but...
thanxalotRecommendedafter 132h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Play This After You Have Played Nioh 2 Nioh is an amazing hack-and-slash, actionRPG, soulslike franchise that reward players with high diligence of understanding combo, ki pulse timing, enemy moveset, game knowledge, and utilizing every possible tool kit the game has to offer. The first game takes you on a conflict of a japan civil war around 1600, though, you don't know what is happening between them, the plot is...
Ardo NoahRecommendedafter 74h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
This game is just a monumental example of awful gamedesing I won't brag too much about how awful this game looks for 2017, this constant night+rain+PS3-like graphics is an obvious fact. Performance and optimization of this game are very questionable, to say the least. I don't understand why PS3 graphics with constant map reusage and going back and forth on the same levels over and over requires 75gb of disc space...
ChereNot recommendedafter 83h3 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

Ready to die? Experience the newest brutal action game from Team NINJA and Koei Tecmo Games. In the age of samurai, a lone traveler lands on the shores of Japan. He must fight his way through the vicious warriors and supernatural Yokai that infest the land in order to find that which he seeks.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 VRAM 3GB or over AMD Radeon R9 280 VRAM 3GB or over, 80 GB of storage. Windows only.

Cite this score

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Nioh: Complete Edition scores 51/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/485510/nioh-complete-edition
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 5, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players-5
Critics84
Players79
Metacritic critics · 39,238 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperKOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD.
PublisherKOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD.
GenreRPG
Released2017
Players3.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements79