The magic number.Nioh 3, the challenging Team Ninja samurai action game, has passed one million copies sold in two weeks. According to the game's publisher Koei Tecmo, this makes it the fastest selling entry in the series' history.
Nioh 3, the challenging Team Ninja samurai action game, has passed one million copies sold in two weeks. According to the game's publisher Koei Tecmo, this makes it the fastest selling entry in the series' history.
In a post made to celebrate the occasion, it was also revealed that the entire series has sold over 10m copies too. In a message to fans and supporters the developers stated they "are truly grateful to players around the world for their incredible support."
An accolades trailer was also released to coincide with the announcement, which features multiple review scores, quotes, and gameplay footage of Nioh 3. You can watch it yourself below.
It was only last week Nioh 3 received its first major post-launch patch, fixing progress halting bugs, crashes, and tweaking the health of some enemies. It also fixed the friend searching mechanic, which stopped working after a while. All in all, the game is in a decent state now with its rougher edges smoothed off.
If you've not picked up Nioh 3 yet, you can read Eurogamer's review! In it, Dom Peppiatt wrote: "Innovation is the ki to success for Team Ninja and Koei Tecmo, as Nioh 3 iterates on the formula once more to take an already great 'masocore' series to new heights."
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The Tonfa is Nioh 3's highest Ki-damage Ninja weapon — a blunt, fast, relentless close-range weapon that wins by draining enemy stamina bars faster than they can recover, forcing Winded states, and capitalising on those vulnerability windows with finishing moves that deal disproportionate burst damage. In the base game, a halfway-decent Tonfa setup will stagger-lock most enemies before they can threaten you. In Dream of the Nioh — where enemy health pools triple, their damage can one-shot you, and your basic combat tools stop being enough — the Tonfa build stops being about hitting hard and starts being about engineering a system.
5/3/2026
Nioh 3 throws out the letter-grade scaling system from Dark Souls and Elden Ring entirely. There are no A/B/C rankings stamped on your weapon telling you to just pump Strength. Instead, every weapon in the game operates on what Team Ninja calls Reference Stats — a three-stat dynamic scaling system that automatically adjusts to your highest attribute investment. It sounds complex. It is, slightly. But once you understand how it works, it becomes one of the most build-friendly systems in any Souls-adjacent game, because it's nearly impossible to permanently brick your character — and respec is free.
3/3/2026
This guide ranks all seven Samurai weapons, breaks down what each one actually rewards in combat, identifies the best Martial Arts for each, and matches each weapon to the build identity where it performs best. If you're deciding which Samurai weapon to commit to — or you've been struggling with your current pick and want to know why — this is the reference you need.
3/3/2026
Before a single Yokai dies, before you settle on your first weapon, before you even decide whether you're building Samurai or Ninja — you'll be staring at the Nioh 3 character creation screen deciding what your warrior actually looks like. And given that Team Ninja has built one of the most detailed character customization systems in the Souls-like genre, that time investment is entirely justified. Whether you want to craft an original face from scratch or import one of the community's best Nioh 3 character codes to get straight into the action, this guide covers everything: every menu, all the working codes for both PS5 and PC, and tips for getting the most out of the system.
1/3/2026
The Tonfa is the best Ninja weapon in Nioh 3, and it isn't particularly close. No other weapon in the entire game — Samurai or Ninja — drains enemy Ki as fast, chains into sustained multi-hit combos as efficiently, or punishes a staggered boss with the same relentless pressure. It holds the top spot in our Nioh 3 weapon tier list, sits at the core of countless endgame builds, and earns its S-tier position in every credible Nioh 3 best weapons ranking for a reason that becomes obvious the moment the build clicks: when an enemy's Ki bar hits zero and they collapse into a grapple window, the Tonfa put them there in roughly half the time any other weapon would have.
28/2/2026
There is a version of this review that begins with Nioh 3 being the best Souls-like game released in years — and that version is accurate. There is another version that begins with the observation that Koei Tecmo is now operating from an increasingly predictable playbook, and that version is also accurate.
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