NieR: Automata
Like Scarlet Nexus, NieR: Automata pairs stylish melee combat with a science-fiction world under siege, though its android protagonists and machine-ruled dystopia give the conflict a more existential frame.
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Scarlet Nexus
In a far distant future, a psionic hormone was discovered in the human brain, granting people extra-sensory powers and changing the world as we know it. Just as humanity was entering this new era, deranged mutants known as Others began to descend from the sky with a thirst for human brains. Highly resistant to conventional attack methods, extreme measures needed to be taken to battle the overwhelming threat and preserve humanity. Those with acute extra-sensory abilities, known as psionics, were our chance to fight the onslaught from above. To this day, psionics have been scouted for their talents and recruited to the Other Suppression Force (OSF), humanity’s last line of defense. Take on the role of Yuito Sumeragi, a new recruit to the OSF aiming to become an elite psionic like the one who saved him as a child. Armed with a talent in psycho-kinesis, explore the futuristic city of New Himuka and uncover the mysteries of a Brain Punk future caught between technology and psychic abilities in SCARLET NEXUS.
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What it’s about — and how it feels
Scarlet Nexus casts you as Yuito Sumeragi, a new recruit whose psychokinetic abilities help defend New Himuka from brain-hungry Others. Its futuristic city and psychic combat sit at the meeting point of technology and the mind, while Yuito’s OSF service leads into mysteries threaded through a single-player action RPG.
Psychokinetic combatBrain-punk futureOSF rookie’s journeyMutant incursions
Where it stands
#8
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Details
- Developer
- Bandai Namco Studios, Tose
- Play style
- Single player
- Platforms
- Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox One
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More on your wavelength
Three titles that echo something distinctive in this one, with a quick note on the connection.
Darksiders II
Both games send agile fighters through fantastical threats with action-RPG progression; Darksiders II leans on open-world exploration, equipment choices and acrobatic traversal rather than Scarlet Nexus’s futuristic city and psychic powers.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Both build an action RPG around exploration, character growth and supernatural dangers, but The Witcher 3 foregrounds player-shaped quests across a sprawling dark-fantasy world, while Scarlet Nexus centres on OSF combat and psychic science fiction.