Ninja Gaiden’s roots go all the way back to 1988, when the action-platformer title released on the NES. Since then, it’s been an action game staple, with a variety of 2D and 3D iterations. Developer Koei Tecmo dubbed 2025 “The Year of Ninja Gaiden” because the series has seen three separate releases this year. The Ninja Gaiden 2 Black remaster was released in January. Blasphemous developer The Game Kitchen collaborated with Koei Tecmo to release Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound, a new 2D entry in the franchise, in July.

To round out this year's releases, Koei Tecmo worked with Xbox Game Studios to launch the next mainline entry in the series, Ninja Gaiden 4. Despite being developed under Microsoft, the game is available on PC, Xbox Series X|S, and even PS5. This reflects Microsoft’s shift away fro

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