The names you know.
The story you make your own.
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Rule a historical or custom house in China in 196 AD. Develop settlements, manage the economy, recruit officers and negotiate with rival rulers on a pausable real-time campaign map. When armies meet, command the battle yourself or use automatic resolution.
Single-player · Windows · Free 50-day demo · In development
Start with a historical ruler and holdings, or create your own.
Develop settlements, assign officers and decide where to expand.
Command formations yourself or use automatic resolution.
Casualties, wounds, captures and territory carry forward.
Manage the campaign
Develop settlements, manage the economy, recruit officers and negotiate with other rulers. Pause or change the campaign speed to read reports and council proposals, then assign an officer to an army or settlement. Scouts and reports reveal part of the situation, not every enemy movement.
Claim the Mandate by holding a strict majority of 29 capitals. Lose your last holding and your house ends.
Meet the rulers and officers
After the battle
Territory changes, casualties, wounds and captures remain when you return to the campaign. Decide whether to regroup, negotiate or keep marching. The clip shows armies moving and several battles resolving on one campaign map.
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Development-build clips show field command, named officers and a siege. The clips are separate examples.
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Cao Cao · Field command
Select formations, set their facing and order them to move, hold or charge.
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Liu Bei · Named officers
Liu Bei and Guan Yu remain named in the battle interface while you direct nearby formations.
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Sun Ce · Fortified siege
Choose where to concentrate the siege: attack the gate or send troops up ladders to the ramparts.
Field command
Set facing and movement orders, watch morale and fatigue, and decide when to hold or charge. Sieges add gates, ladders and ramparts.
Battle controls
Assign roles, keep formations together, and carry on when a commander falls.
Build momentum before the lines meet.
A breach changes the battle.
Another officer can take command when a commander falls.
Officer duels
An enemy officer may challenge your champion before the armies fight. Familiar rivals can meet in a duel, with the outcome recorded in your campaign.
A duel before the armies clash
The result becomes part of the officers’ campaign histories. Revisit it in the Chronicle, your record of important events.
The officers you lead
Assign officers, send them into battle and follow what happens to them. They can gain memories, traits and earned titles. Their dossiers show those changes, while the Chronicle records important events.
Rulers and officers of the Three Kingdoms
Start as Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Lu Bu, Sun Ce or another established ruler, or create your own ruler, banner, starting seat and companions. The portraits below include rulers and officers you can encounter.
Starting rulers include Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Lu Bu and Sun Ce. Or create your own.
Common questions
Current platform, demo, battle and language details.
A single-player Windows strategy game set in China in 196 AD. Develop your domain and move armies on a pausable real-time campaign map, then command field battles and sieges. Hold a majority of 29 capitals to win. Explore the campaign.
Choose manual command or automatic battle resolution when armies meet. In manual battles, select formations and give real-time orders to hold, advance or charge. Terrain, morale and fatigue affect the fight; sieges add gates, ladders and ramparts. See field command.
Start as Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Lu Bu, Sun Ce or another established ruler, or create your own ruler, banner, starting seat and companions. Meet some of the rulers and officers.
English and Simplified Chinese interfaces are listed on Steam. Native Chinese QA is ongoing. Chinese audio and subtitle support are not advertised.
Steam release upcoming · Windows demo on itch.io
The free demo runs through Day 50.
The paid itch.io build removes the Day 50 campaign limit. The game is in active development.
