Suikoden: Tenmei no Chikai (1996)

Developer: Koei
Platforms: Sega Saturn, PlayStation
Genres: Strategy

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How it feels

A measured, historically grounded strategy experience where you carefully manage resources and maneuver armies through ancient China at a thoughtful, unhurried pace.

turn-basedmethodicalhistoricalstrategicslow-pacedclassicdeliberatesimulation-heavy

About

Bandit Kings of Ancient China, also known as Suikoden-Tenmei no Chikai in Japan, is a turn-based strategy role-playing simulation video game developed and published by Koei, and released in 1989 for MS-DOS, Amiga and the Macintosh and in 1990 for the Nintendo Entertainment System. In 1996, Koei issued a remake for the Japanese Sega Saturn and Sony PlayStation featuring vastly improved graphics and new arrangements of the original songs.

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