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Dragon Throne: Battle of Red Cliffs

Object Software · Strategy First · 2024-01-06

SteamEpic Games Store

RPGStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Mar 26, 2002 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

An epic real-time strategy game set in chaotic Ancient China. Control the kingdoms of Liu Bei, Sun Quan, or Cao Cao, warlords who played a pivotal role in Ancient China. Lead your kingdom, innovate tech, forge alliances, build a formidable army to unite the nation.

85%
positive of 252 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$1.99
steam price (US)
Dragon Throne: Battle of Red Cliffs is a real-time strategy (RTS) video game developed by Object Software Limited in 2002 for the PC. It is based on the historical background of the epic 14th century novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong and the famous Battle of Red Cliffs.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 43 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~5/week).
  • · Review velocity down 12% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 50% of 7,886 RPG games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 5.0k–11k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 252 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Steam$1.99-80%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

12-month high $2.00 · on sale 0 of 5 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

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Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$2.00$1.992026-08-142026-09-112026-08-14 — best price $2.002026-09-08 — best price $1.992026-09-09 — best price $1.992026-09-10 — best price $1.992026-09-11 — best price $1.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerSteam CloudFamily Sharing

7 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Russian

Player tags

2DPvPRPGRTSWarArcheryFantasyStrategyTop-DownDiplomacy

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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