NieR Replicant — Steam Gift

NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139… — a Steam gift straight to your account

Here you're buying NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139… as a Steam gift, the upgraded version of Yoko Taro's legendary action-RPG. This is the long Japan-only half of the original 2010 NieR, rebuilt for modern platforms: reworked combat, refreshed visuals, a fully re-recorded soundtrack and new story content, including an extra ending. There are no codes to enter — the game arrives as a ready gift right in your Steam and drops into your library on its own.

What the game is about

The story unfolds thousands of years before NieR: Automata, in a world slowly fading after an ancient catastrophe. The hero is a kind young man from a remote village whose little sister, Yonah, is dying of a mysterious illness called the Black Scrawl. To save her, he sets out with a talking tome named Weiss to find the Sealed Verses. Along the way he's joined by the fierce warrior Kainé and the gentle Emil — an unforgettable cast. What hooks you isn't the action, it's how the game keeps turning your idea of who the real "heroes" and "enemies" are on its head.

What makes NieR special

• Five endings (A, B, C, D and the new E). The story reveals itself across multiple playthroughs — each one adds a new layer and reframes what you've already seen.
• Keiichi Okabe's score. One of the most praised soundtracks in gaming: its choral vocals in an invented language have become the series' signature.
• Genre-bending design. True to Yoko Taro, the gameplay constantly shifts — classic action-RPG one moment, bullet-hell, top-down or text adventure the next.
• Overhauled combat. Reworked by Toylogic, the feel and responsiveness land much closer to Automata than to the 2010 original.

What's included in the gift

You get the full game — standalone, with nothing extra required. This is the base edition of NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139… for PC (Windows) on Steam. Once the gift arrives and you accept it, the game is tied to your Steam account for good, exactly as if bought from the store directly.

How you'll receive the Steam gift

Everything happens automatically and usually takes a couple of minutes. Our bot adds you as a friend on Steam itself (or you simply follow an invite link), sends the gift and then removes you from its friends list — you don't need to send or confirm any friend request by hand. A few important conditions so the gift goes through smoothly:

• Account region. Your Steam region must match the gift's region, otherwise the gift won't be accepted.
• Game not in your library. A gift can't be delivered for a game you already own — NieR Replicant must not be in your Steam library yet.
• No Steam Guard needed. Steam Guard isn't required to receive the gift.
• Timing. Delivery typically takes a couple of minutes after checkout.

A prequel to Automata and its place in the series

NieR Replicant is the narrative foundation of the entire NieR universe. If you've played NieR: Automata and want to understand where this world comes from, this is where to start. It's also part of Yoko Taro's wider tapestry — directly linked to Drakengard 3 through one of the original's endings. If you enjoy story-driven Square Enix action-RPGs, take a look at Final Fantasy VII Remake too.

Kainé, Emil and the cast

Half of NieR's magic lives in its characters. Kainé is a sharp-tongued warrior whose story is far more tragic than it first appears; Emil is a boy with a devastatingly dangerous power and the kindest heart in the whole game. Even Weiss, the haughty floating tome, feels like family by the end. These characters and their fates are why players come back to NieR years later and keep recommending it. Yoko Taro has a gift for making you love the kind of cast any other game would treat as background.

Why start with Replicant

If you're new to the NieR universe, Replicant is the ideal entry point by chronology: it takes place thousands of years before Automata and explains how the world arrived at what you'll see in the later games. Yet it stands fully on its own — you can play it with zero series knowledge and still be floored. And once you've finished it, a lot of Automata's details start reading very differently, gaining a second layer of meaning.

About the ver.1.22474487139… in the name

The odd numbers in the title are part of the series' signature humor and numerology (the value recurs across the NieR universe on purpose). Technically this isn't a remake or a port but an "upgraded version" (ver.1.22…): it keeps the original Replicant scenario while adding the new Ending E, an extra story episode, an overhauled combat system and a re-recorded soundtrack. So even players who finished the 2010 Japanese original will find plenty that's new.

Quick answers

This is a Steam gift, not a key: there's no code to enter — the gift arrives straight in your account. There's only one platform: Steam for PC; this gift won't work on consoles. It's a complete game, not DLC, and it doesn't require any other entry in the series. Once you accept the gift, the game stays on your Steam account forever. On Steam Deck it runs via Proton, but there's no official Verified badge — it's worth checking the compatibility status on the game's Steam page before buying.

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