Romance of the Three Kingdoms XIII
Skip · Strategy · 2016
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $17.99.
- Length
- 48h
- Value
- $0.37/hr
- Reviews
- 58% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 1024×768 over or 1280×720 over display, 7 GB of storage. Windows only.
"The ultimate depiction of the Three Kingdom. A heroic drama of a gathering of Legends. "With this as the concept behind Romance of the Three Kingdoms 13, we have compiled an experience that will immerse you even deeper into the world of the Three Kingdoms, with "human drama," seen through the interactions of the...
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $17.99, set in September 2020. Its cuts run 70 percent off as a rule. There have been 42 in the 11 years tracked, about 10 weeks apart. Today's $17.99 at 70 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, ROMANCE OF THE THREE KINGDOMS XIV ($59.99, scores 9) beats it on value, while it beats Sid Meier's Civilization VII ($69.99, scores 2).
Of the 751 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 11 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,864 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 762 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 33 percent of the 452 reviews written there were positive, against 58 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
Still 501 concurrent players, 10 years in.
Players
501 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Coming from VIII, X, and XI all on ps2, XIII feels like a mix of familiar ground and new experiments. Compared to VIII: VIII gave me that freedom to live as an officer, build bonds, and climb the ranks. XIII brings that back, but with a bigger map and more cinematic presentation. It feels like VIII's spirit, just dressed up for modern times. Compared to X: X was very task-oriented, with clear duties and officer life...
It's romance of the three kingdoms, game as old as time, and a story even older. This one does the officer thing pretty well, I had fun with it. Controling entire provinces isn't as smooth as it is in some other titles but I heard they go sorta between high strategy and officer level strategy games. I got my money's worth with ROTK13, I bought it on other systems too, sorta wish it shared saves with the playstation...
First playthrough, Yellow Turban Rebellion, Dong Zhou does not die before 195, My faction led by Yu Jin becomes the 3rd largest in China behind Sun Jian and Dong Zhou, Cao Cao's clan dies, Yuan Shu's clan dies, Yuan Shao's clan dies, Have 3 coalition wars against Dong Zhou over the span of 10 years in game with an eternal stalemate, Liu Bei's clan dies, I surreder my entire faction into Sun Jian's clan in hopes he...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Romance of the Three Kingdoms XIII scores 4/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/363150/romance-of-the-three-kingdoms-xiiiThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 23, price as of Sep 24.
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