Franchise file / Omega Force, Koei
Dynasty Warriors
One warrior, a thousand soldiers
Koei's Omega Force turned China's Three Kingdoms era into crowd-clearing action, starting in 1997. The franchise stretches to Samurai Warriors, Warriors Orochi and Gundam crossovers.
- 1997
- First game
- 2
- Series
- Omega Force, Koei
- Creator
One world. Many eras.
Choose your chapter
Fighter to battlefield. The 1997 original was a one-on-one weapons fighter on PlayStation. Dynasty Warriors 2 threw that out in 2000, moving to PS2 and huge open battlefields, and later sequels built on the idea.
Start with Dynasty Warriors 3Your next late night
The essentials
Chapters
Series (2)
The Three Kingdoms, at full volumeDynasty WarriorsOmega Force's flagship line, from the 1997 PlayStation fighter to 2025's Origins. Pick a Three Kingdoms officer and cut through crowds of soldiers on battlefields that shift as you fight.
Sengoku war, Warriors styleSamurai WarriorsOmega Force's sister series to Dynasty Warriors arrived in 2004, moving the crowd-clearing action to Japan's Sengoku period and its warlords, clans and shifting loyalties.
A legacy worth revisiting
One hero against an army.
Dynasty Warriors hands you a famous general and a battlefield packed with enemies, then lets you carve through them while the wider fight shifts around you. It grew out of Koei's Romance of the Three Kingdoms strategy games and spawned a family of sister series.
- 1997 to 2003
- Fighter to battlefield
- 2004 to 2017
- The family grows
- 2018 to 2025
- Changing the formula
Scenes that stay with you
Inside the world
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