Nobunaga's Ambition: Awakening

Nobunaga’s Ambition: Awakening is a unique take on the strategy genre that chooses to focus more on the administration aspects of war rather than the battles. Coupled with in-depth mechanics for managing your economy, as well as a surprisingly deep political system where you have to pay attention to how well your officers are doing, you get a unique management-styled strategy game that is absolutely worth your time.

Nobunaga's Ambition: Awakening is an interesting and deep strategy game that needs some compromises to run well on the Steam Deck.

Nobunaga’s Ambition: Awakening is the sixteenth entry in the venerable strategy franchise (which celebrates its 40th Anniversary this year) from Koei and its most accessible yet. While still convoluted compared to even another strategy title of this scale, the love and dedication to Japan’s iconic Sengoku era and the larger-than-life personalities that populate it shine through.

Accomplish Nobunaga Oda's unrealized ambition to unify Japan! PS4 version reviewed.

Nobunaga's Ambition: Awakening is a well-rounded RTS game that brings players into the Sengoku period to lead clans into victory. The game's rewarding management system and compelling mechanics are very enjoyable, but the controller button layout and menus may feel obtuse to some players.

Nobunaga’s Ambition was one of the first NES games that I came across that truly baffled me as a child. For the most part, I associated my time with video games to be one of relaxation, stimulation and excitement in a variety of fields. To be able to run and jump along platforms, to shoot things endlessly as they appeared on screen, and even to move around a bunch of pixels I pretended was Larry Bird. Yet here was a title asking eight year old me to read an astonishing amount of text, grasp...