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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...

Romance of the Three Kingdoms VIII with Power Up Kit is a Strategy game released in 2017, priced at $19.99, with an estimated owner base of 20,000 .. 50,000 and a Mixed review sentiment (66% of 177 reviews).

10
playing now
66%
positive of 177 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)

10 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 07:00 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.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 10 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 71% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 33% of 14,082 Strategy games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

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 3 of 7 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
9920172026Week of 2017-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

2402026-09-15 08:00 — 14 players2026-09-16 16:00 — 11 players2026-09-18 00:00 — 8 players2026-09-19 07:00 — 11 players2026-09-20 15:00 — 16 players2026-09-21 23:00 — 9 players2026-09-23 06:00 — 15 players2026-09-24 14:00 — 20 players2026-09-25 21:00 — 12 players2026-09-27 05:00 — 17 players2026-09-28 12:00 — 21 players2026-09-29 20:00 — 8 players2026-10-01 03:00 — 10 players2026-10-02 11:00 — 20 players2026-10-03 18:00 — 7 players2026-10-05 02:00 — 9 players2026-10-06 10:00 — 13 players2026-10-07 17:00 — 8 players2026-10-09 01:00 — 7 players2026-10-10 08:00 — 21 players2026-10-11 16:00 — 15 players2026-10-13 00:00 — 5 players2026-10-14 07:00 — 10 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
394Sep 2017Aug 2026Sep 2017 — avg 17 · peak 46Dec 2017 — avg 8 · peak 25Mar 2018 — avg 4 · peak 15Jun 2018 — avg 6 · peak 21Sep 2018 — avg 8 · peak 29Dec 2018 — avg 8 · peak 26Mar 2019 — avg 9 · peak 25Jun 2019 — avg 9 · peak 25Sep 2019 — avg 8 · peak 23Dec 2019 — avg 7 · peak 23Mar 2020 — avg 10 · peak 30Jun 2020 — avg 9 · peak 25Sep 2020 — avg 9 · peak 26Dec 2020 — avg 14 · peak 36Mar 2021 — avg 11 · peak 30Jun 2021 — avg 12 · peak 36Sep 2021 — avg 12 · peak 30Dec 2021 — avg 11 · peak 30Mar 2022 — avg 12 · peak 33Jun 2022 — avg 16 · peak 38Sep 2022 — avg 14 · peak 39Dec 2022 — avg 13 · peak 32Mar 2023 — avg 15 · peak 34Jun 2023 — avg 20 · peak 49Sep 2023 — avg 28 · peak 77Dec 2023 — avg 23 · peak 53Mar 2024 — avg 19 · peak 50Jun 2024 — avg 20 · peak 52Sep 2024 — avg 25 · peak 63Dec 2024 — avg 20 · peak 51Mar 2025 — avg 15 · peak 36Jun 2025 — avg 15 · peak 36Sep 2025 — avg 14 · peak 33Dec 2025 — avg 17 · peak 43Mar 2026 — avg 14 · peak 30Jun 2026 — avg 14 · peak 28Aug 2026 — avg 14 · peak 33
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

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

3562026-05-29 — 15 pageviews2026-06-02 — 6 pageviews2026-06-06 — 31 pageviews2026-06-10 — 28 pageviews2026-06-14 — 25 pageviews2026-06-18 — 24 pageviews2026-06-22 — 18 pageviews2026-06-26 — 25 pageviews2026-06-30 — 25 pageviews2026-07-04 — 18 pageviews2026-07-08 — 19 pageviews2026-07-12 — 23 pageviews2026-07-16 — 14 pageviews2026-07-20 — 23 pageviews2026-07-24 — 18 pageviews2026-07-28 — 20 pageviews2026-08-01 — 21 pageviews2026-08-05 — 27 pageviews2026-08-09 — 17 pageviews2026-08-13 — 29 pageviews2026-08-17 — 19 pageviews2026-08-21 — 20 pageviews2026-08-25 — 24 pageviews2026-08-29 — 15 pageviews2026-09-02 — 19 pageviews2026-09-06 — 23 pageviews2026-09-10 — 18 pageviews2026-09-14 — 17 pageviews2026-09-18 — 18 pageviews2026-09-22 — 20 pageviews2026-09-26 — 27 pageviews2026-09-30 — 16 pageviews2026-10-04 — 24 pageviews2026-10-07 — 23 pageviews
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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