Sangokushi Eiketsuden (2017)

Developer: KOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD.
Platforms: Windows
Genres: RPG
Rating: 3.5 of 5, 87 player ratings
Typical playtime: about 4.0 hours
Where to get it: Steam

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How it feels

A deliberate, map-based tactical RPG where you methodically advance a historical narrative through discrete battles.

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What players say

Players praise it as a classic character-driven Three Kingdoms tactical RPG with a focused Liu Bei campaign, but warn it is a bare-bones port of the floppy disk version that lacks modern features. Many cannot save, the Japanese-only text is garbled on some systems, and the virtual disk swapping frustrates. Fans repeatedly ask for the release of Cao Cao's Biography.

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