Three Kingdoms Born
A character-driven Three Kingdoms strategy game. Recruit legendary officers, build your realm, and command real-time battles through preparation, tactics, and decisive intervention. Shape Guandu, Red Cliffs, and the anti-hegemon war, challenge Duel Mode, and climb global rankings.
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History Sets the Stage. You Decide What Happens Next.
《Three Kingdoms Born》 is a character-driven strategy game set in the chaos of the Three Kingdoms era. Choose a ruler, lead your faction, recruit more than 450 historical officers, develop your cities, and shape your own history through diplomacy and war.
Every officer is more than a set of numbers. Each has their own abilities · unit aptitudes · traits · personality · signature skills, and can be appointed to important offices, placed in command of armies, or assigned as a strategist. Officers grow through battles, duels, and their duties, but they also age with time. If loyalty falls too far, an officer may eventually abandon your faction.
Officers Who Live, Grow, and Change
Officers gain experience and grow through battles, duels, and their duties in your cities. But time passes for everyone. As they age, even once-great warriors will gradually begin to lose Martial and Leadership ability.
Loyalty also matters. Neglect an officer for too long and their commitment may fade. If loyalty falls far enough, they may even take what they can and leave your faction behind.
Captured officers are not recruited with a single click either.
Cause · Goodwill · Wealth · Personal Ties · Intimidation
Choose how you want to persuade them. The result can also change depending on who you send as your envoy.
Command the Battle, Not Every Soldier
A battle begins before your armies ever meet.
At the war council, assign your officers, choose a formation and operation, and appoint a strategist.
Once the battle begins, you do not micromanage every individual soldier. Instead, read the flow of the battlefield and intervene when the moment matters.
Commit reserves, change positions, switch operations, or unleash a stratagem.
Fire Attack · Flood Attack · Ambush · False Reports · Provocation can shake the battle before the lines even fully collide.
Terrain, weather, 11 unit aptitudes, officer ability, fatigue, morale, Hero Skills, and strategist abilities all affect the outcome.
And when great generals meet, a duel can suddenly change the course of battle.
Rule, Negotiate, and Deceive
Develop your cities and decide what to build in their limited facility slots.
Recruit and train troops, develop units suited to each region, and complete Military Reforms to upgrade specific unit types across your entire faction into elite forces.
Diplomacy is not simply a button with a success chance. It is a negotiation with another ruler.
See why a rival trusts or fears you, choose the right envoy, and propose gifts · non-aggression pacts · alliances · joint attacks · reinforcement requests · threats · surrender.
If your proposal falls only slightly short, the other ruler may demand gold, provisions, or another diplomatic concession instead of simply rejecting you.
Send spies behind enemy walls, then use incitement · sabotage · sow discord to weaken them from within.
At the Black Market, you can also trade for rare treasures whose true identity and effects may not be fully revealed at first.
As your territory expands, entrust distant fronts to legion commanders, rise through the ranks, and eventually found your own state and proclaim yourself Emperor.
A Realm That Moves Without You
The world does not wait for the player.
AI rulers develop their cities, search for talent, use intelligence and stratagems, gather armies, and attack where they see weakness.
When enemies approach, nearby cities may send reinforcements. Weaker factions may even cooperate to resist a stronger power.
Because each ruler has their own level of aggression and decision-making tendencies, the same campaign does not always unfold the same way.
Each month, a front-page style report summarizes the most important events across your faction, the borderlands, and the wider realm.
Guandu · Red Cliffs · the Anti-Hegemon Coalition are not simply fixed historical events.
The factions involved and the fronts that emerge depend on the balance of power that has developed in your campaign, and the results of the battles can reshape what comes next.
History provides the stage. What follows is written by you and the factions struggling across the realm.
Duel Mode and Global Rankings
A separate roguelike Duel Mode is also available outside the main campaign.
Choose a single warrior and fight through increasingly powerful opponents to see how far one blade can carry you.
You can also compare your results with other players through the Duel rankings and Unification records.
Key Features
More than 630 historical officers with abilities, traits, unit aptitudes, personalities, signature skills, growth, and aging
Real-time battles shaped by preparation, formations, operations, stratagems, terrain, weather, and duels
Negotiation-based diplomacy where you read rival rulers and bargain over conditions
Intelligence levels · spies · incitement · sabotage · sow discord
City development · limited facility choices · unit development · Military Reform
Autonomous legions and legion commander loyalty
Rising titles · founding a state · proclaiming yourself Emperor
Three major wars that change with the balance of power: Guandu · Red Cliffs · Anti-Hegemon Coalition
AI factions that plan, fight, negotiate, and react on their own
Officer Editor — create your own officers and begin as a new ruler
Roguelike Duel Mode and global rankings
English · Korean · Simplified Chinese · Traditional Chinese · Japanese
Early Access
Three historical rulers currently have their own unique storylines:
Sun Ce, crossing into Jiangdong to build a power of his own.
Ma Teng, choosing his path in Liangzhou.
Liu Zhang, struggling to defend Yizhou through a changing age.
You can also create your own officer and begin as the ruler of your own faction.
Core systems including city management, officer management, real-time battles, diplomacy and intelligence, legions, Military Reform, the three major wars, Duel Mode, and rankings are all currently playable.
More rulers, stories, and scenarios will continue to be added on the road to full release.
《Three Kingdoms Born》 is a solo-developed game and will continue to grow with player feedback.
