•Patrik Mršnik• 6 min read
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Is Ghost of Tsushima Worth Buying on PC or PS5?
Some years after launch, whether Ghost of Tsushima is worth buying comes down to one thing: how much open-world filler you can tolerate around some of the sharpest sword combat ever made. Sucker Punch's samurai game scored a 9 out of 10 in our Ghost of Tsushima review, and the Director's Cut is the version almost everyone buys now.
There's a PC port now, a standalone sequel on PS5, and a co-op mode most buyers forget is included.
Short answer: yes on both, and the version you own matters less than how you play it. Below, you'll find what the Director's Cut contains, how the combat holds up, and which players should save their money.
Is Ghost of Tsushima Worth It Summary
Yes, it's worth buying if you want the best sword combat in the genre and can ignore the map icons around it
Ghost of Tsushima PC adds unlocked frame rates, ultrawide support, and upscaling, and Ghost of Tsushima Legends co-op is bundled in free
The Director's Cut is the one to buy, and Iki Island plus PS5 Japanese lip sync are what it actually adds over the 2020 release
Expect 25 to 30 hours for the main story and 50+ to clear everything, so wait for a sale if collectathon content drains you
What the Director's Cut Includes
On PC the Director's Cut is the only edition on sale, and on PlayStation it's the one to get. Plenty of what people credit to it, Kurosawa mode included, shipped with the 2020 base game or arrived later in free patches.
Feature | Where it came from |
|---|---|
Iki Island expansion | Director's Cut only, with its own story, enemies and horseback combat |
Japanese audio lip sync | Director's Cut on PS5, alongside haptics and adaptive triggers |
Kurosawa mode | In the base game since July 2020, black and white with samurai film audio |
Target lock-on | Free update 2.04, available to base game owners too |
PC extras | Unlocked frame rate, ultrawide support, DLSS, FSR and XeSS |
Iki Island is the best of the paid additions. It's tighter and better paced than the main campaign, and it puts Jin against enemies who counter the stances you leaned on for 20 hours.
The PC port from Nixxes is clean rather than a remaster, so you're paying for frame rate headroom and resolution.
The Combat Is Why People Still Buy It
Four stances, parries, standoffs and a Lethal difficulty that kills you in a couple of hits. Ghost of Tsushima's fighting system asks you to read an enemy's weapon and switch footing mid-swing, and almost nothing since has matched the weight of it.
Stone handles swordsmen, Water breaks shields, Wind cuts through spears, Moon staggers brutes. Swapping between them under pressure is the loop, and on Lethal it stops being optional. Armor sets push you further, turning you into a duelist, a ghost or a bruiser depending on what you equip.
Stealth is the weaker half. Assassination chains are satisfying, though camp layouts blur together after the tenth one and the AI rarely punishes a sloppy approach. Treat it as a way to thin a group before a fight rather than a full playstyle.
Is Ghost of Tsushima Worth Buying at Full Price?
At full price it's worth buying for the combat alone, and your tolerance for open world busywork decides the rest. PS5 gives you Japanese lip sync and haptics, PC gives frame rates and ultrawide, and the game underneath is identical.
Player type | Verdict |
|---|---|
Wants great melee combat | Buy it now, full price is fair |
Burns out on map icons | Buy on sale, play the story and Iki Island only |
Played Ghost of Yotei first | Still buy it, the stances and duels are deeper here |
Ghost of Yotei arrived on PS5 in October 2025 as a standalone sequel set 329 years later, with a new lead and no shared characters.
Run the main story, the Mythic Tales and Iki Island, then stop. Fox dens, haiku spots and bamboo strikes turn a 30-hour game into a 50-hour chore.
FAQs About Buying Ghost of Tsushima
Final Words
The strongest argument for buying Ghost of Tsushima in 2026 is that its combat has not been outclassed. Six years of samurai and soulslike releases came and went, and none nailed the same mix of readable stances, standoffs and duels that end in one clean stroke.
What has aged is the shape around it: a 2018-style open world with a checklist that rewards completion over curiosity. Knowing that going in separates players who call this a masterpiece from players who bounce off at hour 15.
Buy it if you want a fighting system to sink into and a story that respects your time when you let it. Pass, or wait for a discount, if a map covered in markers tires you out.
One last thing to watch: with the sequel out and Sucker Punch focused elsewhere, Legends is unlikely to grow. Buy for the campaign, treat the co-op as a bonus, and you'll get your money's worth.
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