Square Enix held on June 09, 2025 the first “NieR Replicantver.1.22474487139official livestream”, revealing new details onNieR Reincarnation, new gameplay and info for theNieR Replicant remasterand most notably revealing Papa NieR can be playable through a certain DLC, here are all the details.

During the stream, Square Enix published a new trailer detailing theNieR Replicantver.1.22474487139additional content. The stream also featured several gameplay parts. Lastly, the segment of the stream exclusive to Niconico Premium also included exclusive gameplay of the Barren Temple. You can find it all further below.

Papa NieR and 15 Nightmares

Back at the ChristmasNieRstream (summary), Square Enix producer Yosuke Saito andNieRcreative director Yoko Taro mentioned that Papa NieR, Oyaji, or Father NieR depending on which nickname you use, could be playable in theNieR Replicantremaster. With this new stream, we learned that he’s indeed back, but in 15 Nightmares.

15 Nightmares is a highly difficult dungeon which was distributed as DLC for the originalNieR Replicant/Gestalt.Now it’s included for free in the remaster. Playing it, you may earn various weapons, and the bonus Kabuki and Samurai costumes.

Papa NieRwill be voiced by Kenichiro Matsuda. Kimihiko Fujisaka handled his artwork. All screenshots and artwork are in the gallery above.

NieR Replicant Ver.1.22 - 4 YoRHa DLC

This is free DLC launching together with the game, addingNieR Automatacostumes for the characters ofReplicant, including 2B forKainé. Special weapons are included as well, along a function to replace all BGM withNieR Automata’s. Lastly, it adds several seiyuu fromAutomataas guests.

On stream, Yoko Taro explained that now that the game isfully voiced, some of the characters who were unvoiced in the original needed new seiyuu.

As such, they asked part of theNieR Automatacast to do it: Yui Ishikawa (2B), Natsuki Hanae (9S), Ayaka Suwa (A2), Aoi Yuki (Pascal), Kaoru Akiyama (Pod 153).

Meanwhile,for the English voice actors,we have Kira Buckland and Kyle McCarley as guests.

Mermaid Princess

Mermaid tells the story of a girl named Louise (Aoi Yuki) and a postman who arrive in a coastal town. Louise’s illustration was also drawn by Kimihiko Fujisaka.

On Stream, Yoko Taro pointed out how Kimihiko Fujisaka was also the chara designer ofDrag-on Dragoon (Drakengard)and jokingly said he “reluctantly drew (the artwork above), he draws anything as long as he’s paid even if he doesn’t like it”.

More seriously, Yoko Taro explained how Mermaid was supposed to be in the original game itself, but they didn’t have enough money and had to cut something. So Mermaid got released as a short novel instead, in theGrimoire NieRbook.

All of these additions were showcased in a new trailer with gameplay:

NieR Replicantver.1.22474487139official livestream gameplay

The livestream featured several gameplay segments. you may find them at the following timestamps:

New Barren Temple gameplay recorded from the Niconico Premium only segment

Lastly, on stream, Square Enix announced a new, extended version ofNieR The Complete Guidewill be launching in the future. This new version of the official guidebook will also include the Grimoire NieR materials book. TheShoujo YoRHastage play is also getting a DVD Bluray disc release in Japan on July 08, 2025.

NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139launcheson August 10, 2025, worldwide, on PS4, PC via Steam, and Xbox One. The game will be available two days earlier inJapan.