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Romance of the Three Kingdoms

KOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD. · 2016-12-13

Steam

Strategy

Franchise: Romance Of The Three Kingdoms (Koei) · Modes: Single player

Releases: 2003 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), 1985 (PC-8800 Series), TBD (Amiga), TBD (MSX)

"Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was first released in 1985. It was the first historical simulation game released in Japan based on the Chinese classical literature "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". Players become the leaders of their countries and strive to unite the land under their rule.

Romance of the Three Kingdoms is a $12.99 Strategy game released in 2016, estimated to have 50,000 .. 100,000 owners, with a Mostly Positive review sentiment (71% of 35 reviews).

7
playing now
71%
positive of 35 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
69/100
IGDB user rating (4 ratings)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$12.99
steam price (US)

7 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 19:00 UTC (census sample)

Romance of the Three Kingdoms, known as Sangokushi in Japan, is a turn-based strategy video game published in 1985 by Koei. It is the first game in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms series. Originally released on the PC-88, it was ported to numerous platforms, including the PC-98, MSX, Nintendo Entertainment System (1988), Amiga, MS-DOS, FM-7, Sharp X1, X68000, WonderSwan, and Windows (2003).

Health check

Quiet
  • · 7 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 13 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 44% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 63% of 14,201 Strategy games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

All-time low: $4.41 at Steam (2023-10-30)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $12.99 · on sale 3 of 7 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3320162026Week of 2016-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

2652026-09-15 20:00 — 7 players2026-09-17 05:00 — 10 players2026-09-18 12:00 — 11 players2026-09-19 20:00 — 5 players2026-09-21 03:00 — 15 players2026-09-22 11:00 — 17 players2026-09-23 18:00 — 5 players2026-09-25 02:00 — 11 players2026-09-26 09:00 — 26 players2026-09-27 17:00 — 8 players2026-09-29 00:00 — 10 players2026-09-30 08:00 — 16 players2026-10-01 15:00 — 10 players2026-10-02 23:00 — 15 players2026-10-04 07:00 — 18 players2026-10-05 15:00 — 10 players2026-10-06 22:00 — 8 players2026-10-08 06:00 — 9 players2026-10-09 13:00 — 16 players2026-10-10 21:00 — 12 players2026-10-12 04:00 — 21 players2026-10-13 12:00 — 14 players2026-10-14 19:00 — 7 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
152Dec 2016Aug 2026Dec 2016 — avg 3 · peak 11Mar 2017 — avg 2 · peak 9Jun 2017 — avg 4 · peak 11Sep 2017 — avg 3 · peak 12Dec 2017 — avg 5 · peak 14Mar 2018 — avg 4 · peak 14Jun 2018 — avg 4 · peak 10Sep 2018 — avg 4 · peak 15Dec 2018 — avg 5 · peak 15Mar 2019 — avg 4 · peak 12Jun 2019 — avg 4 · peak 16Sep 2019 — avg 6 · peak 15Dec 2019 — avg 4 · peak 14Mar 2020 — avg 6 · peak 19Jun 2020 — avg 6 · peak 22Sep 2020 — avg 5 · peak 17Dec 2020 — avg 10 · peak 24Mar 2021 — avg 9 · peak 23Jun 2021 — avg 9 · peak 25Sep 2021 — avg 13 · peak 28Dec 2021 — avg 9 · peak 24Mar 2022 — avg 9 · peak 21Jun 2022 — avg 9 · peak 24Sep 2022 — avg 9 · peak 25Dec 2022 — avg 11 · peak 24Mar 2023 — avg 8 · peak 22Jun 2023 — avg 8 · peak 25Sep 2023 — avg 9 · peak 27Dec 2023 — avg 12 · peak 29Mar 2024 — avg 11 · peak 27Jun 2024 — avg 10 · peak 27Sep 2024 — avg 10 · peak 27Dec 2024 — avg 12 · peak 27Mar 2025 — avg 14 · peak 33Jun 2025 — avg 11 · peak 25Sep 2025 — avg 12 · peak 26Dec 2025 — avg 12 · peak 27Mar 2026 — avg 13 · peak 27Jun 2026 — avg 10 · peak 28Aug 2026 — avg 13 · peak 30
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$12.99$4.412016-12-142026-05-052016-12-14 — 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 $12.992021-12-13 — best price $12.992022-05-09 — best price $12.992023-07-13 — best price $12.992023-11-13 — best price $12.992024-02-19 — best price $12.992024-10-07 — best price $12.992024-11-11 — best price $12.992025-02-06 — best price $12.992025-05-08 — best price $12.992025-06-23 — best price $12.992025-10-23 — best price $12.992025-12-15 — best price $12.992026-02-23 — best price $12.992026-05-05 — best price $12.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

3992026-05-30 — 9 pageviews2026-06-03 — 21 pageviews2026-06-07 — 31 pageviews2026-06-11 — 27 pageviews2026-06-15 — 22 pageviews2026-06-19 — 27 pageviews2026-06-23 — 25 pageviews2026-06-27 — 27 pageviews2026-07-01 — 31 pageviews2026-07-05 — 35 pageviews2026-07-09 — 17 pageviews2026-07-13 — 24 pageviews2026-07-17 — 23 pageviews2026-07-21 — 24 pageviews2026-07-25 — 33 pageviews2026-07-29 — 18 pageviews2026-08-02 — 29 pageviews2026-08-06 — 35 pageviews2026-08-10 — 19 pageviews2026-08-14 — 20 pageviews2026-08-18 — 39 pageviews2026-08-22 — 19 pageviews2026-08-26 — 31 pageviews2026-08-30 — 26 pageviews2026-09-03 — 33 pageviews2026-09-07 — 27 pageviews2026-09-11 — 27 pageviews2026-09-15 — 21 pageviews2026-09-19 — 37 pageviews2026-09-23 — 24 pageviews2026-09-27 — 33 pageviews2026-10-01 — 35 pageviews2026-10-05 — 24 pageviews2026-10-08 — 22 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam CloudFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: Japanese

Player tags

WarRetroWargameMilitaryStrategyTacticalDiplomacyHistoricalSimulationImmersive Sim

Census log

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

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