Romance of the Three Kingdoms VIII
PAL version cover art
Developer(s)	Koei
Publisher(s)	Koei
Director(s)	Kazuhiro Fujishige
Designer(s)	Tadayuki Irie Daichi Akiyama Tatsuya Ishikawa Hisatsugu Ishikawa
Series	Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Platform(s)	Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, PSP, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5
Release	PC JP: 29 June 2001 Mac JP: 22 February 2002 PlayStation Portable JP: 29 March 2007 PlayStation 2 JP: 24 January 2002 NA: 13 August 2003 EU: 26 March 2004 PlayStation 4 WW: 2024 PlayStation 5 WW: 2024
Genre(s)	Turn-based strategy
Mode(s)	Single Player, multi-player (max 8)

Romance of the Three Kingdoms VIII (三國志VIII) is the eighth installment in Koei's Romance of the Three Kingdoms series.

Power up kit

Power up kit includes following features:

• Marriage between generals, which can create offspring for married parties.
• New tactical scenario campaign mode. This mode consists of battles and event surrounding Cao Cao, Lu Xun, or Zhuge Liang. The stories change depending on how to win a given scenario.
• 3 new scenarios added after the death of Zhuge Liang. In addition, there are 60 more generals.
• Editor can change data of general and city.
• Logs for players activities.
• Improved AI.

Power up kit features are not incorporated into PlayStation 2 version of the game.

Reception

On release, Famitsu magazine scored the PlayStation 2 version of the game a 32 out of 40.^[1]