Homura Hime is here to fill the Nier-sized hole in your life

Nier: Automata is almost a decade old, and despite selling over 10 million copies as of Feb. 2026, it has not received a proper sequel. While fans wait for the next Nier game, Homura Hime arrives as a new hack-and-slash with an anime aesthetic. In Crimson Dusk’s debut, you play an exorcist battling demons with a single weapon set: a pair of swords that float at her back.

The game offers a diverse set of combos and skills, and a combat vendor appears mid-level so you can unlock new moves without finishing a mission. Skills are spectacular — one summons a giant flaming phoenix, another propels Homura Hime forward in a vortex of slashes, and a teleporting-blade attack lets you slice distant enemies while hanging back.

Skills sit on cooldown, making combos of light and heavy attacks the core of combat. Parrying is simple and satisfying: an audio cue times each parry, successful parries quicken skill cooldowns, and chaining them can stun bosses for dramatic finishers.

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