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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.

17
playing now
71%
positive of 35 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
69/100
IGDB user rating (4 ratings)
$12.99
steam price (US)

17 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 09:00 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).

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  • · Top 83% of 5,909 Strategy games in the census by review count.

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

12-month high $12.99 · on sale 4 of 8 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

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

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

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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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