T.K. Punk: G.O.L.D

T.K. Punk: G.O.L.D is a turn-based RPG set in a cyberpunk reimagining of the Three Kingdoms, with bar management, time scheduling and relationship-building elements. Over 50 weeks, you play as a humanoid AI awakened by the resistance organization GOLD. You lead a squad in Hanport City, run a bar on the surface and secretly take commissions as you work to change the city’s fate and overthrow the Eastern Han regime.

Story and choices

The story follows a group of young men and women fighting and growing together, each searching for their own path. You encounter reimagined Three Kingdoms events and ideological conflicts with historical figures and major factions: Zhang Jiao’s vision of a utopian Great Peace, Liu Bei’s virtue-driven leadership, Cao Cao’s belief that Heaven’s timing is with him, and Sun Ce’s reliance on strategic terrain. Your choices shape whether you follow others’ ideals or determine your own course, and the story explores the conflict between love and destruction and the boundary between AI and humanity.

Turn-based combat

Combat is turn-based, with action order determined by each character’s speed. Characters whose HP reaches 0 enter a near-death state and can still use skills, but each hit they take then carries a chance of permanent death. Female characters also have a clothes-breaking effect in this state.

Sanity is consumed during dungeon exploration and combat. If a character’s Sanity gets too low, they enter a cyber “psycho” state with a randomized condition: they might taunt you, or receive a major boost to their combat power.

Manage the bar

You have 50 weeks, with time advancing through turns. Each turn gives you a limited number of actions to assign to stat training, equipment research and development, work dispatches, building bonds and fulfilling commissions. A squad of 13 young men and women joins you, and you can deepen your relationships with them by giving gifts, chatting and fighting alongside them.

Each companion has a personal storyline. You can craft exclusive skills and unique equipment for each one, while your development choices and decisions help determine their fate. Every character also has a dedicated bond questline, with a secret story CG unlocked at maximum bond level.

Skills and equipment

In the mid-to-late game, you gain access to equipment with special skills that can be used alongside characters’ abilities to make battles easier. Equipment can be enhanced and reforged multiple times. Combined with character talents and different skills, these options let you develop your own combat builds.

Art and writing

The game includes Live2D animated art, CGs, professional voice acting and nearly 500,000 words of text.