In fitting fashion for the franchise, Square Enix has released a cryptic teaser for the future of the NieR franchise, coinciding with its 10th anniversary.
A lengthy new video was released by Square Enix, looking at pretty much everything that’s ever happened for NieR in a sequential timeline. The video flicks through clips of the game releases, oddly named DLC, the piano and orchestral concert, stage play, and even a helping of the dozens of collaborations that 2B has appeared in. At the very tail-end of the video, there’s a single line of text, saying “NieR: Automata to be continued.”
Of course, we have no idea what that really means, or even what kind of a format this continuation could take. Considering it’s NeiR, we can’t just assume a sequel game is in the works. It could be any number of things, considering the series has dabbled in novels, manga, anime, stage plays, and audio dramas.
But it’s hard to imagine Square Enix wouldn’t want another big NieR game, considering the numbers it announced alongside this video. NieR: Automata has officially reached 10 million sales. This makes it one of Square Enix’s most successful games to date, as only a few titles like Final Fantasy and Tomb Raider have exceeded that threshold. Fun fact: not a single Dragon Quest or Kingdom Hearts game has sold more than 10 million copies. NieR Replicant has also sold 2 million copies.
NieR creator Yoko Taro has been quiet of late, as we haven’t seen a new game project from him in years. Although on a panel at Korean video game convention G-Con 2025 last November, as reported by Automaton, he did say he’s been working on a lot, thing were just getting cancelled.
“I often get told stuff like ‘Why aren’t you making a new sequel to NieR’ or ‘Yoko Taro isn’t doing anything,’ but that’s because recently, a lot of projects I was involved in got discontinued midway through development. I’ve actually been working on some stuff, it’s just that it never ended up seeing the light of day,” Taro said, ” I got paid for it, so I personally have no issues with that, but people seem to think that I haven’t been doing anything just because none of the work I’ve done is being released.”
NieR: Automata is available on PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC.
