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Sengoku: Road to Unification
Sengoku is a turn-based strategy game set in sixteenth-century Japan, written for Kalgoorlie Retro Gaming. You lead one of 28 clans in the 1560 or 1582 scenario. Each province has a governor and up to seven samurai, each with his own abilities, body points and men, and you appoint one for every order: govern your provinces, raise and train soldiers, recruit ronin and your rivals' samurai, make alliances and send spies and assassins against your rivals. Invade a neighbouring province and you fight the battle yourself on a hex field. Hold all 38 provinces to win.
It has the same retro look as The Broken Seal: a sixteen-colour screen, portraits for every lord and governor, and its own music.
The current version is 1.4.0 (5 November 2026).
Two editions, one game
| Edition | Where | Players |
|---|---|---|
| Browser | https://retro.theiguru.au/sengoku/ (nothing to install) | One player against the computer, up to nine taking turns at one computer, none (watch the computer clans), or multi-player games online |
| Desktop | Windows and Linux, from https://retro.theiguru.au/sengoku/desktop/ | One player against the computer, up to nine taking turns at one computer, or none |
The two editions have the same rules, screens, music and save format. The browser edition is a port of the desktop's Free Pascal code to TypeScript, and both run the same self-test; a battle fought from the same start comes out the same in both. Export and Import move a campaign between the two editions as a save file: see Saves.
Pages
| Page | What it covers |
|---|---|
| How to play | Starting a campaign, the main screen, officers, the orders, the seasons and the hex battles |
| Multi-player games | Players, invite codes, the monthly time limit, battles against other players, the computer playing for late players, and the emails |
| Installing | The desktop edition on Windows and Linux; the browser edition |
| Saves | Where saves are kept, the autosave, Export and Import, old saves |
| Source and licence | Building both editions from source, the tests, the GNU GPL |
| Version history | What changed in each version |
The same help is in the game: 9 Other > How to play on the main screen.
Downloads
From https://retro.theiguru.au/sengoku/desktop/, or the Heisenbergs Files area on the BBS:
| File | What it is |
|---|---|
Sengoku-1.4.0-x64.msi | Windows (64-bit) installer, for your user only |
sengoku_1.4.0_amd64.deb | Linux package for Debian, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Mint and others |
sengoku-1.4.0-source.tar.gz | Desktop source (Free Pascal 3.2.2 and Lazarus 4.4), GNU GPL |
The browser edition's source is linked from the bar at the top of the game page.