God Eater 3

Like its predecessor, the game is an action role-playing game with hack and slash gameplay. Players are equipped with God Arc weapons which can be transformed. In the game, players are tasked to hunt massive monsters known as Aragami. The player character is a God Eater who can absorb energy from monsters to unleash "Burst Arts", special attacks that deal a lot of damage to enemies.

Companion characters, which are controlled by artificial intelligence, assist in combat. Players can activate the Engage System to share combat perks with them during combat. The game can be played cooperatively with four other players, while assault missions accommodate up to 8 players. God Eater 3 introduced three new God Arc weapon-types as well.

By the 2080s, Earth has been devastated and all-but overrun by the Aragami. To make matters worse, a calamity has caused outbreaks of an ash-like substance that corrodes anything it touches, and has spread across Europe, leaving vast stretches of uninhabitable area called the Ashlands which continue to grow over time and are crawling with Aragami. The headquarters of Fenrir, the God Eaters previous command organization, has been lost to the Ash, and Fenrir's outposts have all become isolated. The only human habitations that remain in the sea of ash around HQ are underground facilities called "Ports," built in the ruins of Fenrir satellite bases.

These defend themselves with a new type of God Eaters: Adaptive God Eaters (AGEs) specialized to resist the Ash and having increased combat capability, but often are treated as little more than hounds. The Ports are unified under the Gleipnir organization, successors to Fenrir planning to retake the Ashlands, while an AGE-based resistance organization named the Crimson Queen opposes Gleipnir seeking to adapt to the Ashlands instead. In addition to the Aragami threat, Ash Storms arise to obliterate anything in their path and, even worse, a breed of enhanced and hyper-lethal Aragami, called Ashborn, have emerged.

Marvelous replaced Shift as the game's developer since Bandai Namco wanted to create a game that significantly differed from its predecessors and partnered with Bandai Namco Studios to develop the game. The game's introduction sequence was created by Japanese animation studio Ufotable. Unlike previous entries in the series, the game was not designed for handheld platforms. The game was released in Japan for PlayStation 4 on December 13, 2018, worldwide for PlayStation 4 and Microsoft Windows on February 8, 2019, and for Nintendo Switch on July 12.

Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu awarded the game a score of 32/40. On PlayStation 4, the game received "mixed or average reviews" according to review aggregator Metacritic. GameSpot Ginny Woo enjoyed the game's characters and story, but criticized the game's difficulty curve. On IGN, David Jagnaeux praised the game for its combat calling it: "An exciting take on the Monster Hunter formula, even if its lackluster story and somewhat unvaried content keep it from being the best it could be".

In Japan, approximately 20,960 physical copies for Switch were sold during its launch week, becoming the number two selling game of any format in the country's retail market. The PS4 version of the game opened at approximately 150,523 copies (inclusive of limited edition) during its first week in Japan, and a total of 174,834 copies by the end of 2018, making it the 26th most-sold title in Japan that year.