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Romance of the Three Kingdoms VIII with Power Up Kit cover art

Romance of the Three Kingdoms VIII with Power Up Kit

KOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD. · 2017-08-29

Steam

Strategy

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

Releases: Aug 29, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

"Romance of the Three Kingdoms Ⅷ with Power Up Kit" is an expanded version of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms Ⅷ," which was released in 2001 as the 8th game in the series. RTK Ⅷ is a Historical Simulation game where players direct their heroes in a bid for power over all of China amongst the turbulent times of the...

23
playing now
66%
positive of 177 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)

23 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 13:00 UTC (census sample)

Romance of the Three Kingdoms VIII (三國志VIII) is a 2001 turn-based strategy video game developed and published by Koei for Microsoft Windows. It is the eighth installment in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms series. It was subsequently released on PlayStation 2 and Mac OS the following year. An American version of the game was released on PlayStation 2 in 2003, and a Japanese PlayStation Portable version was released in 2007, nearly 6 years after the original Windows version.

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  • · Top 61% of 5,889 Strategy games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 4.4k–11k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 177 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $3.99 at Steam (2024-07-22)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · 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

$19.99$3.992017-08-302026-05-052017-08-30 — best price $19.992018-08-20 — best price $19.992018-11-22 — best price $19.992019-02-17 — best price $19.992019-07-09 — best price $19.992019-11-22 — best price $19.992020-01-27 — best price $19.992020-03-09 — best price $19.992021-04-26 — best price $19.992022-05-09 — best price $19.992023-07-13 — best price $19.992023-11-13 — best price $19.992024-02-19 — best price $19.992024-08-05 — best price $19.992024-10-07 — best price $19.992024-11-11 — best price $19.992025-01-02 — best price $19.992025-02-06 — best price $19.992025-05-08 — best price $19.992025-06-23 — best price $19.992025-10-23 — best price $19.992025-12-15 — best price $19.992026-02-23 — best price $19.992026-05-05 — best price $19.99
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

2 supported languages: Japanese, Traditional Chinese

Player tags

WarWargameMilitaryStrategyTacticalDiplomacyHistoricalSimulationImmersive SimGrand Strategy

Census log

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

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