Starter Guide

NieR Replicant ver.1.22...

NieR Replicant Drama CD

Grimoire NieR Timeline Chart

NieR:Automata

A Much Too Silent Sea

Memory Cage / Memory Thorn

Farewell

Drakengard

NieR Re[in]carnation

[U]ndecided Option

Explanation:

I'll annotate explain each entry here:

NieR Replicant ver.1.22...:
This is a remaster of NieR Replicant, but with additional content from the short stories of the original. However, the extra ending is more for people who have played NieR:Automata, so just endings A-D then progress to ending E for this after any point of NieR:Automata's completion.

NieR Drama CD:
Fairly long. This gives a lot of background on the main characters, and is very interesting.

Grimoire NieR Timeline Chart:
Pretty short read. You won't know much of the things here, but that's the fun part. When it was released, that was intended.

NieR:Automata:
The most popular game. You probably heard of this one first, or have already played it. The easiest game to get the endings in. You won't have any trouble.

A Much Too Silent Sea:
Relatively short.

Memory Cage / Memory Thorn:
Pretty necessary stories for 2B and 9S's writing. Short

Farewell:
Epilogue for Automata.

Drakengard:
The first game in the series. It's not that long, and it's perfectly okay to use cheats to get through it. It's old, and understandable to not want to get through as "legit" as you can. The first four endings (A,B,C, and D) are pretty easy to get. But, the last ending (E) is a bit annoying. For this, I'll recommend that just getting A-D and using a save file to complete ending E. Otherwise, you'll have to collect every weapon. For PC, You'll need an ISO of the game, PCSX2, a 100% save file, and mymc to convert the file to a PCSX2 usable file.

NieR Re[in]carnation:
The third NieR game. It was a shutdown mobile game, but you can play it on a private server here. Additionally, All of the story content has been archived on YouTube or various fan-sites.

[U]ndecided Option:
A relatively short web novel. There aren't any full text translations, but Cabbage Channnel has a series reading out his translations.