Can I Run Nioh 2?

KOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD. released Nioh 2 in 2021. It is an action role playing game, self published by the studio. It offers a single player campaign and cooperative play. Windows is the only supported platform, which is what the figures below describe. Over 33 thousand players have left a Steam review, so this is a title whose performance is widely reported. Metacritic places it at 86. Progress follows the account through Steam Cloud rather than sitting on one disk. Completionists have 88 achievements to work through. An age check at 17 sits in front of the store page. A pad covers most of the game, though parts of it still expect a keyboard. Steam lists support for 14 languages. Being 5 years old, it was built for the hardware of its day, so a current machine usually has headroom over the published figures.

Developer KOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD.Release 2021Genre Action, RPG

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System requirements

Minimum requirements

CPU	Intel Core i5 4460 or over
GPU	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 or over, VRAM 4GB or over
VRAM	4 GB
RAM	6 GB
Storage	85 GB
OS	Windows® 10 64bit
DirectX	11

Recommended requirements

CPU	Intel Core i7 6700K or over
GPU	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER or over, VRAM 6GB or over
VRAM	6 GB
RAM	16 GB
Storage	85 GB
OS	Windows® 10 64bit
DirectX	11

Verified from Steam · 9 Jul 2026 source

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Setting and environment

The game is set in a bleak fantasy world. Play is structured around interlocking areas that reward learning the route. 8 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion.

Why Nioh 2 is demanding

Nioh 2 sits in the middle of the demand range, targeting NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER or over, VRAM, a tier a mainstream card from the last few generations reaches without difficulty. Its stated video memory figure is modest at 6 GB, so on Nioh 2 the speed of the graphics chip binds before its memory does. Nioh 2 needs 64 bit Windows. The install is small at roughly 85 GB. 16 GB of system memory is expected, the current mainstream figure. Minimum and recommended sit far apart here, which usually means Nioh 2 scales hard with the hardware you give it.

This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.

Can you run Nioh 2?

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Can run iton a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the graphics card is the tightest fit.

Older hardware holds up here: Nioh 2 runs on modest graphics, with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 or over, VRAM 4GB or over enough to meet the minimum. Add 6 GB of RAM and a mid-range CPU and a PC several years old will play it fine.

Bottleneck: GPU

Large install. Nioh 2 needs about 85 GB of free storage.

Projected by resolution

Resolution	Projection	Headroom
1080p	Runs well	1.31x
1440p	Below the bar	0.74x
4K	Below the bar	0.33x

A projection, not a measurement. We scale the published GPU requirement by pixel count, since 1440p draws 1.78 times the pixels of 1080p and 4K draws 4 times as many, then compare against RTX 3060 / Ryzen 5 build. The publisher did not state a target resolution, so 1080p is assumed as the baseline. We hold no frame rate data, so no FPS figure is claimed. Headroom above 1 means the reference machine has room to spare at that resolution.

Common GPUs

Graphics card	Verdict
GTX 1060 6 GB	Runs well
GTX 1060 Laptop	Playable
GTX 1650 4 GB	Playable
GTX 1650 Laptop	Playable
RTX 2060 6 GB	Runs great
RTX 2060 Laptop	Runs well
RTX 3060 12 GB	Runs great
RTX 3060 Laptop	Runs great
RTX 4060 8 GB	Runs great
RTX 4060 Laptop	Runs great
RTX 3070 8 GB	Runs great
RTX 3070 Laptop	Runs great
RTX 4070 12 GB	Runs great
RTX 4070 Laptop	Runs great
RX 6600 8 GB	Runs great

Each card is compared against Nioh 2's published GPU requirement, assuming an otherwise-capable PC. Laptop rows use the real mobile chip's benchmark, a mobile GPU is always slower than its desktop namesake.