Simulator

Nobunaga's Ambition: Sphere of Influence

Single Player

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2013

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📅 Release Info

Release DateDecember 12, 2013

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🏷️ Game Details

Genres

SimulatorStrategyTurn-based strategy (TBS)

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PCPlayStationNintendo

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About this game

Hailed as one of the best instalments in the franchise’s history, this extremely intricate, deep, and meticulous strategy game is set against a backdrop of a fragmented nation and asks the player to take up the mantle of a Daimyo, a feudal lord of the Sengoku era.

Pros & Cons

Pros

Interconnected systems cover domestic affairs, warfare, diplomacy, personnel, and clans.
Detailed clans, officers, territories, and relationships represent Sengoku-period politics.
Multiple routes to power include conquest, diplomacy, development, alliances, and officer management.
Different clans, scenarios, officers, and political situations shape each campaign.
Long-term campaigns connect administrative choices with clan expansion and decline.

Cons

Numerous interconnected systems and specialized terminology complicate early management.
Managing officers, towns, resources, construction, and armies requires repeated administrative tasks.
Large realms require waiting through routine turns between major developments.
Dense interface menus and explanations make information harder to interpret.

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