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Warriors (JP) is a franchise consisting of hack and slash games developed by Omega Force and published by Koei Tecmo for the most part. The main entries are based on historical wars.

Dynasty Warriors[]

Dynasty Warriors (JP) was originally based as an action spin-off of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms spin-off, the series was continued when action games were getting popular in the sixth gen. Unfortunately, almost none of the entries came to Nintendo systems.

Samurai Warriors[]

Samurai Warriors (JP) is the other main series of the Warriors franchise, based on the Warring States period of Japanese history. Unlike Dynasty Warriors, main entries came to Nintendo systems and there is a handheld exclusive sub series that was exclusive to the Nintendo 3DS.

Warriors Orochi[]

Warriors Orochi is a spin-off series which combines Dynasty and Samurai Warriors series plus a few original characters derived from mythology.

Other spin-offs[]

In addition to these two series, there are many spin-offs based on other licensed material. The series also combine in the Warriors Orochi series.

Trivia[]

  • Excluding ports, the releases of the two Nintendo crossovers, Hyrule Warriors and Fire Emblem Warriors follow a similar structure, with the first game being a crossover of characters from across the series, and the second game (Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity and Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes) being set in alternate versions of the latest game in the main series (The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Fire Emblem: Three Houses)
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