Samurai Warriors 4: Empires

Sengoku Musou 4: Empires is the third Samurai Warriors Empires title. The gameplay will focus more on strategy as in other Empires expansions, with players issuing commands and taking suggestions to and from…

66 17 September 2015 ESRB T

Hack and slash/Beat 'em up Strategy Action Historical

Samurai Warriors 4: Empires is a hack and slash/beat 'em up developed by Omega Force, released 17 September 2015 on PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and PlayStation 3.

Verified 19 Oct 2026 Sources: IGDB , Wikipedia

What Samurai Warriors 4: Empires is

Samurai Warriors 4: Empires is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by Omega Force and released in 2015. It was published by Koei Tecmo. It is available on PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and PlayStation 3. It carries an ESRB T age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Sengoku Musou 4: Empires is the third Samurai Warriors Empires title. The gameplay will focus more on strategy as in other Empires expansions, with players issuing commands and taking suggestions to and from their subordinate military officers. Samurai Warriors 4-II serves as the game's base for featured characters, action, and visuals. The overall concept is to present "the ultimate Warriors conquest simulator". In a response to fan feedback, this game will reuse qualities from the first Empires title. Developers from the Nobunaga's Ambition series have worked on the simulation parts of this game. No new playable characters are appearing, but the number of character events are heightened…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Dynasty Warriors series

Samurai Warriors 4: Empires is the 43rd of 58 entries we hold in the Dynasty Warriors series. It arrived 7 months after Samurai Warriors 4-II. The next entry was Dynasty Warriors: Godseekers in 2016. Its critic score of 66 is almost exactly the series average of 66. The highest-rated entry is Dynasty Warriors 8: Xtreme Legends Definitive Edition at 85.

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How it was received

Samurai Warriors 4: Empires holds a critic score of 66 out of 100. That places it above 32% of the 1,125 rated hack and slash/beat 'em up games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 3 points below the year average.

How long it takes, and what that costs

A full completion run takes around 47 hrs.

What it launched against

Samurai Warriors 4: Empires launched on 17 September 2015, within three weeks of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Undertale, Mad Max and Soma. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Undertale, Mad Max, Soma.