What are notable video games set in the Sengoku period?

Video games set in the Sengoku period of feudal Japan include grand strategy titles like Paradox Development Studio's Sengoku and Capcom's popular hack-and-slash franchise Sengoku Basara. Sengoku Basara, released initially as Devil Kings in the West, spawned a massive media empire spanning anime, stage plays, and manga. These games draw upon historical figures like Sanada Yukimura to create narrative-driven gameplay and cultural phenomena.

What we know

• Sengoku: Way of the Warrior is a grand strategy computer game developed by Paradox Development Studio and published by Paradox Interactive. [2]
• Sengoku Basara is a hack-and-slash video game series developed and published by Capcom that is loosely based on real events of the Sengoku period. [3, 5]
• The first Sengoku Basara game was released in Japan in July 2005 for the PlayStation 2 and was localized in the West under the title Devil Kings. [3, 4, 5]
• The Sengoku Basara franchise expanded into a major cultural phenomenon in Japan, spawning three anime shows, an anime movie, live action shows, manga, and stage plays. [3]

Where to go next

• whoWho is Sanada Yukimura in Sengoku Basara?
• how it workedHow did Paradox Interactive design Sengoku?
• what followedWhat multimedia adaptations emerged from Sengoku Basara?
• the bigger pictureWhat was the historical Sengoku period in Japan?
• compared withWhy was Devil Kings renamed for Western audiences?
• an unexpected connectionHow did video games inspire real-world tourism in Japan?Capcom's fictionalized characterization of Sanada Yukimura in a hack-and-slash video game became so popular in Japan that it directly inspired a real-world fan tour educating people about the historical figure.

Sources

• [1]Sengoku (Wikidata Q2362523) · CC0 1.0
• [2]Sengoku (2011 video game) · CC BY-SA 4.0
• [3]Sengoku Basara · CC BY-SA 4.0
• [4]Sanada Yukimura (Sengoku Basara) · CC BY-SA 4.0
• [5]Devil Kings · CC BY-SA 4.0