Team Ninja Announces Open World Samurai Game, Rise of the Ronin [IGN]

Team Ninja has announced its next game, Rise of the Ronin a PS5 console exclusive coming in 2024.

The debut trailer showed an open-world game set during the modernization period of Japan after the arrival of Commodore Perry. The main character, an unnamed Ronin, is seen traversing Japan, jumping off buildings, and using gliders.

Set at the end of the Edo Period in late 19th-century japan, Rise of the Ronin is set during a tumultuous time of civil war between the shogun and anti-shogunate forces. Players will become the Ronin, a warrior without a master who is free to make their own choices.

Players will be able to use both katanas and new weapons such as firearms, which began to enter Japan during this time. The developers call this time “the darkest and ugliest chapters” in Japan’s history and hopes to showcase this new era in the country.

Koei Tecmo is also promising a “multilayered story” that showcases the Bakumatsu period and that each character the player meets will have their own “brand of justice and motivations.”

For more new announcements from today’s State of Play check out IGN’s full round-up.

Matt T.M. Kim is IGN’s News Editor. You can reach him @lawoftd.