How Many Crossover Warriors Games Are There?

The Dynasty Warriors series feels endless. The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is a seemingly endless font of information and source for dramatisation that DYnasty Warriors can always pull from. In fact, the series has taken on plenty of life of its own, resulting in copious spin-offs far detached from Chinese history.

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From collaborations with other studios to original games based on Dynasty Warriors, the Warriors series as a whole has plenty of life in it, and endless ways that it can be altered to fit any game. Seriously, there are so many of these games. How many, exactly? Let’s count.

How Many Original Warriors Games Are There?

Before we dive into how many of these games there are, it’s important to make a quick point. Dynasty Warriors makes up the bulk of the series, though not everything else is just a spin-off of that, or a licensed title. There are two main series here, Dynasty Warriors, and Samurai Warriors.

Dynasty Warriors

Dynasty Warriors is far-and-away the biggest series of them all, making up the bulk of entries in the series, and encompassing the most spin-offs as well. Every mainline game was also released internationally, meaning everyone gets a chance to see the whole series. Here are all of them:

Nice and simply, the Dynasty Warriors games, until the reboot that is Origins, go up in sequential order. Almost every single game, excluding the initial two entries, also come with a few extra versions. The first of these is Xtreme Legends, which adds more characters as well as a Musou mode for characters that originally didn’t have story for them.

The second is Empires. This harkens back to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms games, and adds a more tactical element to the games to let you plan out campaigns, rather than just moving from battle to battle.

In total, that gives us ten mainline games. If you add in all the extra versions, that adds up to a grand total of 26 versions of these games.

Samurai Warriors

A few years after Dynasty Warrios got its firm footing as a Musou game, a new series was born – Samurai Warriors. These games are functionally quite similar to Dynasty Warriors, though focus on the Sengoku period of Japanese history rather than China. Here are each of its game:

Like their parent series, Samurai Warriors gets extra versions down the road as well. These are the same as well, with Xtreme Legends and Empires giving more story, characters, and a tactical form of gameplay.

In total, there are just five Samurai Warriors games, with a total of 16 versions all together.

How Many Spin-Off Warriors Games Are There?

When it comes to spin-offs, we’re looking specifically at those related to just the Dynasty and Samurai Warriors series. There are a few too many collaboration titles to count them all as spin-offs.

And as you can see from the table below, there are enough spin-off games for just these two series to keep us occupied. Let’s check them all out:

The vast majority of these are handheld titles, with gameplay more limited or specialised compared to the console games. There are some games, most of them Japan-exclusive, that are different genres entirely, such as just being stylised Mahjong games.

For Dynasty Warriors, we have 13 spin-off games, while Samurai Warriors has six spin-offs in total.

How Many Collaboration Warriors Games Are There?

For many people, the Dynasty Warriors games aren’t quite their cup of tea. The heavy combat focus and the deep interest in the Three Kingdoms period may not apply to everyone. That’s where the many collaboration titles come in. Sometimes, playing your favorite game with a Warriors lick of paint can be just the enticement you need.

There are 12 different collaboration series in the Warriors series, with Omega Force’s own Warriors Orochi holding the most entries, at six. The next biggest series would be One Piece: Pirate Warriors and Dynasty Warriors: Gundam, both with four entries each.

Counting all of the series and each game within in it, we have a grand total of 27 games. That’s more than every spin-off game for both Dynasty and Samurai Warriors combined.

How Many Warriors Games Are There In Total?

After taking a look at every Warriors game there is, let’s break down just how many we have in total:

• Ten Dynasty Warriors, and Five Samurai Warriors games, giving 15 unique games with a combined 42 versions of the games between them.
• 13 Dynasty Warriors and six Samurai Warriors spin-offs, for a total of 19.
• 12 collaboration games, with a grand total of 27 games between them all.

Counting all of these together, that gives us 61 games, which could stretch all the way to 88 if you count every Xtreme Legends and Empires spin-off. Beginning in 1997, that comes out to about two games a year on the lower end, or 3 on the higher end.

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