Nioh 3 Dev Shares How Full PS5 Title Will Play Even Better Than the Demo

Team Ninja has published the feedback gathered from the recent Nioh 3 demo on PS5, and its findings and takeaways based on the results. Overall, the demo received a 90.9% approval rating, and every other question the developer asked received a positive response.

For example, 62.7% of demo players thought the graphics in the Alpha Demo were good, 80.5% enjoyed the Samurai Style in combat, and the same can be said of the Ninja Style at 80.1%. The lowest positive rating went to a question about the difficulty of the experience, where 56% of players thought it was "just right". A third of participants agreed the demo was "difficult".

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Based on the feedback it's received, Team Ninja plans to address the following things:

• Improve controls in response to high demand from players.
• Improve problem areas in control responsiveness.
• Make controls more customizable by adding options.
• Adjust gimmicks and enemies that were unreasonably difficult.
• Add and improve tutorial visibility.
• Adjust the performance and balance of various actions.
• Improve the overall quality of background graphics.
• Improve the visibility and balance of stages and the open field, and make exploration elements easier to understand and more well-balanced.
• Make notifications and other elements that appear on screen during combat less distracting, and make it possible to dismiss such notifications via button/key input.
• Improve the balance of progression elements.
• Improve the quality of multiplayer mode.

Other areas like "player action and controls", "Style Shift and Burst Break", enemies, level design, and the tutorial will also be improved between now and release. You can see the complete list of planned changes via the link.

"We will do our best to use these surveys to make adjustments and improvements so that all of our users will be able to enjoy the final release version of the game to the fullest," the developer said. Nioh 3 is planned for launch on PS5 and PC in early 2026, and it's sticking to a more open zone structure instead of going fully open world.

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