Newly Found NieR Automata Secret Door Is Making Players Scratch Their Heads

Roughly five years after initial launch, a newly found NieR Automata secret door has players banging their heads against the wall. And they're chronicling their experiences of trying to crack its secrets online.

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As reported by Dexerto, the aforementioned secret door was first found by a player who goes by the handle u/sadfutago. They posted a video of them finding the secret door and entering it into a small room, which then leads into a basement several stories down. There's another really big door at the bottom, which then opens into a place that looks like something out of a dreamscape - or an acid trip. At the end of the spiral-looking space, the user finds a door that opens up into a church.

Here's the video if you want to see it for yourself:

The aforementioned secret door is located in the Copied City. But after sadfutago managed to enter, nobody else was apparently able to make the door appear - ever. And what's even more confusing is that the person who posted the video never elaborated on the NieR Automata secret door - what exactly it does, where exactly it leads, and what in the world is happening with it.

Eventually, NieR players have come to call the room the "Secret Church." But the mystery of it just kept getting weirder, as reported by PC Gamer. That's because more players are now debating whether the secret door and the location behind it is even real. To get to the bottom of the NieR Automata secret door, the game's modding community was called to try to make sense of things.

For now, the NieR community remains stumped because no other player seems to be able to find the door in their own games. It is, by all intents and purposes, a mystery.

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Is The NieR Automata Secret Door A Mod Or A Long-Hidden Easter Egg?

NieR modders tried contacting sadfutago to prove the actual existence of the "Church." According to them, it could possibly be a mod that added the weird geometry and new map, but no NieR mods as of the moment can actually do that. The user cooperated and took a phone video of them entering the room again, but the footage was abruptly cut short before more answers were revealed.

The suspicion that this is a mod sadfutago is passing off as a "secret" (perhaps for clout) kind of went out the window when they mentioned that they were playing on a PS4. As you should know, console games are almost always never moddable like their PC versions. Eventually, this prompted some folks to ask the creator of the game himself, Yoko Taro, if it was a mission or map that was scrapped during development.

The mystery surrounding the NieR Automata secret door is a veritable rabbit's hole of speculation, modding wizardry, or just general confusion. But nevertheless, it's an interesting look into just how passionate gamers can be about their hobbies.

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