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Dynasty Warriors is a series of Japanese hack-and-slash action video games created by Omega Force and Koei, now known as Koei Tecmo. The series is based on the Chinese Three Kingdoms period as depicted in the novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms. As of 2025, the series has sold more than 24 million copies worldwide.
The original Dynasty Warriors, released in 1997, was a one-on-one fighting game released under a different series title in Japan. When Koei created a new action game as a follow-up and localised it for North America, it was numbered Dynasty Warriors 2. Every English title has been numbered one higher than its Japanese counterpart ever since. Koei Tecmo does not consider the 1997 original a formal entry in the main series.
A total of 96 characters have been made playable at some point across the main series, not counting spin-offs. As of Dynasty Warriors 9, 94 of those characters remain in active rotation.
Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity is the single best-selling game in the entire Warriors franchise. It shipped over 3 million copies within its first four days of release on the 20th of November 2020, for the Nintendo Switch.
The Dynasty Warriors live-action film was directed by Roy Chow and written and produced by Christine To. It was released on the 29th of April 2021 in Hong Kong and the 30th of April 2021 in China, after a pre-production phase of eight months and principal photography that began on the 11th of July 2017.
Koei Tecmo president Hisashi Koinuma stated in January 2018 that he personally wanted to make a Dynasty Warriors spin-off set in the Star Wars universe, aiming to create a science fiction Warriors series. As of 2026, with EA having lost exclusive Star Wars game rights, Koinuma reiterated that both a Star Wars and a Super Mario version of the format remain future goals.