SENGOKU: ROAD TO UNIFICATION 1.7.0 - DESKTOP EDITION (LINUX AND WINDOWS)
Created by Heisenberg

A Free Pascal strategy game of the warring states of Japan. Lead one clan
of the Sengoku era and unite Japan by holding all 38 provinces: govern your
provinces, raise and train soldiers, make alliances, incite uprisings and
fight battles on a hex field. It is drawn on a 640 x 400 retro screen in
16 colours, with an original tune on the Japanese five-note scale.

INSTALL
  Linux:   sudo apt install ./sengoku_1.7.0_amd64.deb
           Then select Sengoku from the Games application menu, or run:
             sengoku
  Windows: run Sengoku-1.7.0-x64.msi (per user, no administrator rights
           needed). See README-WINDOWS.txt.

Play alone, with up to nine people taking turns at one computer, or watch
the computer clans fight it out; the computer leads every clan nobody plays.
Multi-Player games, with other people online, are played in the browser
edition at https://games.theiguru.au/sengoku/

START
  After the credits and the title picture, choose New campaign: pick the
  1560 or 1582 scenario, how many players (0 to watch, up to 9 taking
  turns), each player's fief on the map, the lord's name and his
  attributes (each counts quickly; Space stops it), and how fierce the clans are (Gentle to Ruthless). Quick
  start begins at once as Oda Nomura in 1560.
  Click a province, or move with the arrow keys; Tab steps through your
  own provinces. Press 0-9 for the orders on screen: 1 Move, 2 Develop,
  3 Trade, 4 View, 5 Personnel, 6 Diplomacy, 7 Spy, 8 Military, 9 Other
  and 0 Rest. Only Rest advances time. Alt+Enter switches to full screen.

Full guide: docs/PLAYER.txt (Linux: /usr/share/doc/sengoku/PLAYER.txt);
Other > How to play in the game shows the same rules.
docs/RELEASE.txt lists what is new.

Saves: five slots, and an autosave written at the end of every month
(Continue on the title screen picks it up), in the "saves" folder of
  Linux:   ~/.config/Sengoku - Road to Unification/
  Windows: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Sengoku - Road to Unification\
with settings in options.ini beside it. Saves are in format 7, the same
text format as the browser edition; saves from earlier releases (formats
1 to 6) still load. An optional rules.ini beside options.ini changes the
rules table (see rules-example.ini). Export to a file (the last item of Other > Save)
writes the campaign to a .sav file anywhere; Import from a file (the last
item of Other > Load) opens one. The browser edition
opens these files and exports the same kind, so a campaign can move
between the browser and the desktop.

Source: /usr/share/doc/sengoku/sengoku-1.7.0-source.tar.gz
Local project: make, make test, make gui-test, make deb, make dist;
tools/build-win64.sh cross-builds the Windows edition. See README.md.

GNU GPL version 2 or later. Copyright (C) 2026 Michael Slater.
Provided WITHOUT WARRANTY. See COPYING and NOTICE.txt.
