The player has access to bows, which can fire multiple types of arrows. The player needs to stagger enemies or land a successful parry to break their defense before attacking to deplete their health. To activate ghost stance, players must kill a number of enemies without taking any damage or assassinate a Mongol leader. Eventually the player unlocks ghost stance, which makes Jin invincible and allows him to kill enemies with a single hit for a limited period of time. In combat, Jin adopts different combat stances when facing different types of enemies: stone stance for hostile swordsmen water stance for shielded enemies wind stance for spearmen and moon stance for brutes. They can engage in a direct confrontation with enemies using their katana, called a standoff, which can result in a series of fatal strikes against a number of different enemies. The player has a variety of gameplay options to reach objectives they are given. Ghost of Tsushima is an action-adventure video game played from a third-person perspective. Gameplay In Ghost of Tsushima, the player can traverse the open world of Tsushima Island on horseback. It was nominated for several end-of-the-year awards, including Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2020 and the 24th Annual D.I.C.E. The game was a commercial success, selling more than 9.73 million copies by July 2022 and was one of Sony's fastest-selling original games. The game received positive reviews upon release, with critics praising the game's melee combat, story, characters, performances, and music, though it received some criticism for its implementations of stealth gameplay and open world structure. The Windows version of Director's Cut, developed by Nixxes Software, will release in May 2024. The game was released for PlayStation 4 in July 2020, and an expanded version for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5, subtitled Director's Cut and featuring the Iki Island expansion, was released in August 2021. Ilan Eshkeri and Shigeru Umebayashi composed the game's soundtrack.

While the in-game landmass is similar in shape to Tsushima Island, the team did not intend to create a one-to-one recreation. The game's landscape and minimalistic art style were influenced by Shadow of the Colossus, and locations in the game were designed to be 'the perfect photographer's dream'. The team was heavily inspired by samurai cinema, particularly films directed by Akira Kurosawa, as well as the comic book series Usagi Yojimbo.

The studio collaborated with Japan Studio and visited Tsushima Island twice to ensure that the game was as culturally and historically authentic as possible.

Sucker Punch began developing the game after the release of Infamous First Light in 2014, as the studio wanted to move on from the Infamous franchise to create a game with a heavy emphasis on melee combat. A multiplayer mode titled Ghost of Tsushima: Legends was released in October 2020 and made available separately in September 2021. When facing enemies, the player can choose to engage in a direct confrontation using Jin's katana or to become a legendary warrior known as 'the Ghost' by using stealth tactics to assassinate opponents. The game features a large open world which can be explored either on foot or on horseback. Jin must choose between following the warrior code to fight honorably, or using practical but dishonorable methods of repelling the Mongols with minimal casualties. The player controls Jin Sakai, a samurai on a quest to protect Tsushima Island during the first Mongol invasion of Japan. Ghost of Tsushima is a 2020 action-adventure game developed by Sucker Punch Productions and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment.

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