Legends of the Three Kingdoms

LTK initially began with a strong following in China since the entire game is in Chinese.

Site visit statistics from one of these blogs showed that readers outside of Mainland China come primarily from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, the United States of America, Canada, Australia, United Kingdom, Malaysia, and New Zealand.

One blog author describes his knowledge of Three Kingdoms evolving from uninterested to semi-expert after immersing in the study of LTK abilities.

[2] The faculty sponsor of the course, Professor Robert Berring, wants to get undergrads "acquainted with essential philosophy dating back to China's ancient dynasties".

Each player plays one of these four roles: Monarch (主公), Minister (忠臣), Rebel (反贼) and Traitors (内奸).

When a player's Health points is reduced to 0, he faces imminent death and must instantly take action: he may request to be saved by a Peach card (thus letting other players play the card), or may use one immediately if he has it.

In this case, the player will need as many Peach cards as he requires to raise his health back to 1 point in orderto continue the game (for example, a Health point of -1 requires 2 Peach cards).

The player with the larger number wins, with "Ace" as the smallest value and "King" as the largest value.

Some characters, such as Jia Xu, were allied to different kingdoms through the course of their lives, and is therefore represented by different cards for each allegiance.

With the introduction of the first LTK expansion pack, a new fictional allegiance known as the Demi-Gods was introduced.

Beginning January 2011, ultra-collectible SP cards were released monthly with every purchase of Zhuoyou Zhi magazine.

[5] While the court found there was potential for copyright infringement on its initial hearing,[6][7] it ultimately ruled in favor of Ziko Games and dismissed the case in 2016.