NieR Automata
NieR Automata is a PlayStation 4 role-playing game released in 2017 developed by Square Enix. It centers on combat encounters, story, case, or mission progress, and character progression, with controls and information arranged around the DualShock 4 twin sticks, triggers, directional pad, and face buttons, with touchpad, speaker, light bar, or motion input where the game uses them.
- AI score · out of 10
- 9.3 / 10
About this game
NieR Automata is a PlayStation 4 role-playing game centered on combat encounters, story, case, or mission progress, and character progression. Story beats, exploration, and progression resources support a longer campaign, with progress divided into stages, tasks, matches, or growth milestones that make immediate goals understandable. Its value depends on whether these rules continue to create judgment and room for mastery rather than on length, sales, or series recognition. Short campaigns are judged by repeat-challenge value, while longer ones are judged by variety, pacing, and recovery after failure. Characters, world building, environments, and music carry most of the atmosphere, while HD output, HDR or PS4 Pro modes, HDD streaming, surround audio, and television-distance interfaces need to preserve action, state, and text readability together. The genre-specific limitation is that dense text, menu layers, repeated battles, loading, or language dependence can slow progress. Platform conditions also include HDD installs and loading, patch version, storage space, DualShock 4 battery life, PS Camera or PS VR requirements, visual modes, frame rate, and network services affect the current release. This description covers only this platform release and does not import features or conveniences from remasters, emulators, or other console editions.
Collected in series
NieR tells intimate, unsettling stories in worlds marked by ruin. Its action RPGs combine weapon combat with unexpected changes of perspective and play style, while its mobile installment explores another side of the same universe through command-based battles.
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Exceptional PlayStation 4 role-playing experience
NieR Automata centers on combat encounters, story, case, or mission progress, and character progression. Story beats, exploration, and progression resources support a longer campaign, giving the release understandable goals and a recognizable play rhythm. It arranges controls and information around the DualShock 4 twin sticks, triggers, directional pad, and face buttons, with touchpad, speaker, light bar, or motion input where the game uses them. Characters, world building, environments, and music carry most of the atmosphere, while the main genre limitation is that dense text, menu layers, repeated battles, loading, or language dependence can slow progress. The assessment also covers installs and loading, patches, storage, controller battery, PS VR, performance, and service status for this release. GameNavo judges four dimensions independently before applying fixed weights and excludes press aggregates, user ratings, sales, popularity, source length, media count, and title recognition. Platform merit is recorded only when a concrete hardware use or version implementation supports a small adjustment.
Strengths
- combat encounters, and story, case, or mission progress provide a readable mechanical foundation.
- Progress is divided into understandable stages, tasks, matches, or growth milestones.
- Visual, audio, and interface feedback support the principal rules and state changes.
Weaknesses
- Dense text, menu layers, repeated battles, loading, or language dependence can slow progress.
- HDD installs and loading, patch version, storage space, DualShock 4 battery life, PS Camera or PS VR requirements, visual modes, frame rate, and network services affect the current release.
Who it is for: Players who enjoy role-playing games, accept PlayStation 4 control and information conventions, and want to judge this release on its own terms.
Play notes: This review covers the PlayStation 4 release without conveniences from emulators, remasters, or other platforms and does not represent a complete playthrough.
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| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension Story beats, exploration, and progression resources support a longer campaign. This dimension weighs new-goal frequency, the difficulty or progression curve, repetition, and recovery after failure. | Reviewed | 9.2 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension NieR Automata builds its main loop around combat encounters, story, case, or mission progress, and character progression. The score considers whether input feedback, decision space, and system depth continue to support its goals, while accounting for dense text, menu layers, repeated battles, loading, or language dependence can slow progress. | Reviewed | 9.4 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Characters, world building, environments, and music carry most of the atmosphere, and this platform specifically asks whether HD output, HDR or PS4 Pro modes, HDD streaming, surround audio, and television-distance interfaces need to preserve action, state, and text readability together. Readability and stylistic consistency matter rather than resolution or hardware scale by itself. | Reviewed | 9.8 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Technical usability covers response, camera behavior, loading, saving, controllers, language, video standard, accessories, and service status for this release. HDD installs and loading, patch version, storage space, DualShock 4 battery life, PS Camera or PS VR requirements, visual modes, frame rate, and network services affect the current release; conveniences from emulators or later platforms receive no credit. | Reviewed | 8.2 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Developer
- PlatinumGamesSquare Enix
- Publisher
- Square Enix
- Release date
- 2017
- Platforms
- PlayStation 4
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- Not provided
- Offline minimum players
- Not provided
- Offline maximum players
- Not provided
- Online minimum players
- Not provided
- Online maximum players
- Not provided
- Categories
- Role-Playing · Primary genreAction
- Tags
- ExplorationThird PersonLevel Progression3D GraphicsTurn-based CombatStory-drivenReal-time CombatLong-term ProgressionFantasyMain Story 20–50 HoursSolo-friendly
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
- Not provided
- Standalone
- Not provided
- Age ratings
- Not provided
- Play modes
- Single player
- Perspectives
- Third personSide view
Release editions
- Windows PCWorldwide2017
- PlayStation 4Worldwide2017
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