ROMANCE OF THE THREE KINGDOMS XIV
Skip · Strategy · 2020
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $59.99.
- Length
- 17.2h
- Value
- $3.49/hr
- Reviews
- 63% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 48% over the last 30 days against 63% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX660, 20 GB of storage. Windows only.
Triumph over the land, take charge of the fate of China! Conquer territories and fly your colors!
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $41.99, set in November 2020. It has been discounted 4 times in the 7 years tracked here, typically at 20 percent off, with about 17 weeks between sales.
It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games that feel like it, NOBUNAGA'S AMBITION: Sphere of Influence - Ascension ($59.99, scores 19) beats it on value, while it beats Romance of the Three Kingdoms XIII ($17.99, scores 4).
Players rate it 63 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 48 percent. Something recent has soured the room. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 7 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2024 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 29 percent of the 1,212 reviews written there were positive, against 63 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
It came out 6 years ago and 1.8K were still playing it at the last check.
The drop-off
61% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
1,827 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
This game is not recommended. You no longer have the full version of this game as the full version is locked behind a new pay wall and is region locked and unavailable to English markets.
Extremely disappointed with Koei Tecmo for making the ROTK 14 Complete Edition upgrade unavailable for purchase in North America. Long-time players have already spent a significant amount of money supporting this game, and region-locking the final upgrade is a slap in the face. Even without official English language support, you should make it available for purchase for those of us willing to play it as-is. Please...
After seeing the Edition Comparison for the latest DLC, I have no choice but to give negative.
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 XIV scores 9/100 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/872410/romance-of-the-three-kingdoms-xivThe 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 14, price as of Sep 23.
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