Nobunaga's Ambition: Sphere of Influence - Ascension

Nobunaga's Ambition: Sphere of Influence - Ascension is a strategy game developed by Koei Tecmo Games and released in 2016. It was published by Koei Tecmo America Corporation. It is available on PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 3 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It carries an ESRB T age rating.

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 29 achievements to unlock.

Nobunaga's Ambition: Sphere of Influence - Ascension is the 57th of 63 entries we hold in the Nobunaga's Ambition series. The next entry was Nobunaga's Ambition: Soutenroku with Power Up Kit in 2017. Its critic score of 72 is almost exactly the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is Nobunaga's Ambition: Sphere of Influence at 80.

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Nobunaga's Ambition: Sphere of Influence - Ascension holds a critic score of 72 out of 100. That places it above 42% of the 3,250 rated strategy games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 4 points above the year average.

The minimum specification calls for Pentium®4 1.6GHz or over, 1 GB RAM and VRAM 128MB over. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 5GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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Nobunaga's Ambition: Sphere of Influence - Ascension launched on 24 March 2016, within three weeks of Tom Clancy's The Division, Dark Souls III, Hitman and Ratchet & Clank. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Tom Clancy's The Division, Dark Souls III, Hitman, Ratchet & Clank.