Indeed, as a long time fan of strategy games, Romance of the Three Kingdoms left me feeling quite cold in a lot of ways.
My appreciation for Romance of the Three Kingdoms 14 borders more on academic than anything else. I say thankfully, but that in and of itself should not be construed as an endorsement of quality, or stamp of approval. It’s a rich, unbroken history, but one that the west has flat out not had the chance to experience much – for a confluence of reasons, Romance of the Three Kingdoms games have had few releases outside of Japan.īut the fourteenth (yes, fourteenth) game in the series is available now, and it’s come to the west, thankfully enough. Yet the west has missed out on an extremely prolific chapter in the history of strategy games – Koei’s Romance of the Three Kingdoms series is a turn based strategy and tactics series, going back almost four decades now. Strategy games using historical settings are nothing new, and turn based strategy games with historical flavors even less so.