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Sānguó Yóuxiá Zhì is a game set in the Three Kingdoms world. You travel between locations, recruit generals, assemble a party of up to five fighters and arrange their positions before battles. You do not need to recruit all 33 generals to challenge the final boss. After winning, you can save a playthrough file that preserves your weapons and equipment for a new run.

Formations and battles

The game uses the Eight Trigrams formation system. Each of the five basic positions has a distinct property, and the formation your party takes affects battle. The game has about 20 formations, each with its own conditions for positioning the five party members and its own added effects, which are introduced in NPC dialogue at the start of battle. Special story events can reward formation diagrams; for example, Zhuge Liang gives you the Seven Stars Big Dipper formation diagram when he joins. Use a diagram and meet its positioning conditions before battle to activate the formation once combat begins.

Battles usually allow up to five generals, so party composition matters. Generals from Wei, Shu and Wu can join in the palaces of the respective capitals: Xuchang, Chengdu and Jianye. Entering a different kingdom's palace causes that kingdom's generals to leave the party.

Generals and abilities

Every general has a unique active skill that cannot be learned by levelling up; you unlock these skills with skill points, allowing some generals to gain powerful abilities early in the game. Generals also have unique titles and passive skills that you discover as you play. The rulers of Wei, Shu and Wu have leadership skills that grant an aura to every general in the party. Notable figures such as Zhuge Liang, Zhou Yu, Guo Jia, Zhao Yun, Xu Chu and Gan Ning can trigger powerful passive states during battle when certain conditions are met.

Famous generals tend to specialize in physical attacks and have high vitality, critical-hit rates and counterattack rates. Strategists can heal allies, give them beneficial states, inflict harmful states on enemies and use powerful spells; they also have a high chance to evade enemy spells and can reflect them. Scholar-generals such as Zhou Yu combine traits of both roles.

Weapons and equipment

Each general can equip only one type of weapon, while the player character, a generalist familiar with all three kingdoms, can use any type. The 137 weapons include knives, swords, hammers, axes, whips, staffs, bows, halberds and spears. Some can only be found while exploring, not bought in shops, and weapons have different bonuses and hidden properties, so the most expensive option is not necessarily the best fit for your party.

The game also has 70 types of armor and equipment, with effects such as attribute bonuses, extra experience, fewer encounters and automatic battles. You can explore to discover their properties.

Skills, states and items

There are 226 skills, including generals' exclusive abilities and additional skills learned from manuals found through various events during your travels. More than 50 states can affect generals, including beneficial states such as excitement, Cloud Body and Mist Form, and harmful ones such as confusion, anger and charm. Items and skills can inflict these states on allies or enemies, with a chance of changing the course of a battle.

The game contains more than 120 items with different effects. You can find them by picking them up or exploring, and certain story items can also lead to unexpected discoveries while travelling on the world map.

Exploration and replay

As you travel through the Three Kingdoms, you encounter anecdotes and NPCs who test your knowledge of the period. Familiarity with the Three Kingdoms can give you an advantage early in the game. After defeating the final boss, you can save a playthrough file that carries over all your weapons and equipment into a new run, giving you a head start as you recruit and develop generals you did not use before.