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NOBUNAGA'S AMBITION: Zenkokuban cover art

NOBUNAGA'S AMBITION: Zenkokuban

KOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD. · 2017-01-24

Steam

Strategy

Franchise: Nobunaga's Ambition · Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: 1987 (MSX), 1988 (DOS), Jan 24, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), 1993 (Sega Mega Drive/Genesis), 1988 (Amiga), 1990 (Mac)

The second game in the series, "Nobunaga's Ambition-Nation" was released in 1986. It became the first of the series to be released outside of Japan under the name, "Nobunaga's Ambition." Players take the role of one of the main characters of the period, Nobunaga Oda, Shingen Takeda, Kenshin Uesugi, or others and try...

4
playing now
40%
positive of 15 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
69/100
IGDB user rating (9 ratings)
$12.99
steam price (US)

4 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 15:00 UTC (census sample)

Nobunaga's Ambition is a 1986 strategy video game developed and published by Koei for several platforms such as IBM PC compatibles, Amiga, Nintendo Entertainment System, Super NES, and Sega Genesis. A part of Koei's "Historical Simulation" line of titles, it is focused in the Sengoku period of the history of Japan. It is the second game in the Nobunaga's Ambition series and the first Nobunaga's Ambition title to be released in English. The player has the objective of unifying Japan as Oda Nobunaga or as any of the other daimyos present in the game. Several revisions were made to the gameplay since the first game, as well as a 50-province mode which expanded the game's map to feature all of Japan.

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  • · Top 94% of 5,944 Strategy games in the census by review count.

All-time low: $5.19 at Steam (2024-03-25)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $12.99 · on sale 2 of 4 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$12.99$5.192017-01-252026-06-182017-01-25 — best price $12.992017-05-29 — best price $12.992017-09-25 — best price $12.992018-03-12 — best price $12.992018-08-20 — best price $12.992018-11-22 — best price $12.992019-02-17 — best price $12.992019-07-09 — best price $12.992019-11-22 — best price $12.992020-01-27 — best price $12.992020-03-09 — best price $12.992021-04-26 — best price $12.992022-05-09 — best price $12.992023-04-11 — best price $12.992024-04-08 — best price $12.992024-08-22 — best price $12.992024-10-07 — best price $12.992025-05-08 — best price $12.992025-06-23 — best price $12.992026-05-05 — best price $12.992026-06-18 — best price $12.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam CloudFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: Japanese

Player tags

WarRetroWargameMilitaryStrategyTacticalDiplomacyHistoricalSimulationTurn-Based

Census log

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

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