It’s a brand new yr, and Goddess of Victory: Nikke is celebrating by rolling out plenty of new content material for gamers. There’s a number of collaboration occasions, free recruitment alternatives, a brand new model of a preferred character, new story content material, and in-person experiences.
If you haven’t checked out Goddess of Victory: Nikke but, it’s a free-to-play sci-fi RPG shooter from developer Shift Up that’s accessible for obtain on iOS, Android, and PC. You’re in control of a gaggle of android troopers known as Nikke and lead them in a fierce battle to reclaim the overworld from a vicious race of aliens known as Raptures.
The sport has been a powerful success, just lately celebrating its second anniversary in addition to reaching 45 million downloads worldwide. Throughout its two years, it has collaborated with a number of famend IPs, together with Neon Genesis Evangelion, Chainsaw Man, Nier: Automata, Re:Zero Starting Life in Another World, and Dave the Diver. That custom continues in 2025, with Shift Up just lately saying a collaboration with Stellar Blade in addition to a second collaboration with Evangelion.
The Stellar Blade collab will unite two standard video games developed by Shift Up. Stellar Blade is an action-adventure sport accessible on PS5 that shares the same setting with Goddess of Victory: Nikke. You play as Eve, and your mission is to reclaim Earth from monsters known as Naytibas after people misplaced their battle in opposition to them and had been pressured to flee the planet.
The Evangelion collab arrives in February and can characteristic a great deal of new content material. It will add two brand-new recruitable SSR characters, named Asuka: WILLE and Rei Ayanami (Tentative Name), and Sakura can be a free-to-obtain collaboration character. Plus, there can be new collaboration character costumes (together with free-to-obtain costumes), a brand new 3D occasion map, new collaboration occasion storyline, and a brand new bullet hell minigame.
These two collabs are the most important occasions on the horizon, however they’re not the one updates to return to Goddess of Victory: Nikke. Things obtained began on the primary day of the yr, with the addition of a brand new recruitable model of Rapi, the sport’s heroine. Called Rapi: Red Hood, she’s an woke up type of Rapi who has taken on the facility of one other sturdy Nikke known as Red Hood. The new model of Rapi is an SSR Nikke, the best rarity within the sport. Rapi’s upgraded variant was additionally accompanied by new occasions that delve deeper into her story for the primary time.
The begin of the brand new yr has additionally introduced occasions that reward gamers with free probabilities to recruit characters. With the brand new occasions and story content material, you possibly can earn greater than 100 recruitment alternatives in all. That provides newcomers or gamers who haven’t performed shortly an opportunity to leap in and hit the bottom working. Plus, the recruitment banner that includes standard character Scarlet: Black Shadow from final yr’s New Year occasion will make a return.
The new yr celebrations have additionally been taking place in the true world, and that may proceed with a pair of reside concert events in Japan and South Korea. Called Melodies of Victory, the live performance will first go to Pacifico Yokohama National Convention Hall in Japan on January 11. It’ll then transfer on to Kyung Hee University Grand Peace Palace in Seoul, South Korea on February 15.
For tickets and extra data, you possibly can go to the official web sites for the Japanese concert and the Korean concert. You can even obtain Goddess of Victory: Nikke without cost now on the game’s official website, on the App Store, or Google Play. If you wish to be a part of the group, you possibly can be part of Nikke’s Discord, test their accounts on Twitter or Facebook, or keep updated on their YouTube channel.
