Last updated on October 14th, 2025 at 01:40 pm
Reigns: Three Kingdoms – Simulation Game Review
Reigns: Three Kingdoms is a Simulation/Strategy game from Netflix, Inc., first launched in 29th November 2022.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 1,390+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Reigns: Three Kingdoms Stand Out
Available exclusively for Netflix members.
Swipe through military negotiations, marry to strengthen alliances and recruit soldiers to fight in turn-based card battles in this historical epic.
Inspired by the beloved Chinese epic "Romance of the Three Kingdoms," this game thrusts players into the turbulent final years of the Han dynasty. Players will encounter the many factions, wars and heroes of the saga as they swipe through to make high-stakes decisions, team up with the right army at the right time, gain power and more.
Discover new ways to enjoy this franchise’s unique card-based swiping mechanic as you uncover the many secrets of a vast storyline, deploy strategy in turn-based battles and encounter a host of unexpected mini-games.
Features:
• Experience a distinctive narrative told through encountering a vast variety of characters and scenarios.
• Play dozens of quests with specific arcs, heroes to recruit, people to wed and children to raise.
• Recruit new heroes to fight with you in new turn-based card battles.
• Build your own dynasty and see your political progress.
• For the first time, take your recruits into battle against other players in online-ranked card battles.
- Developed by Nerial Limited.
This Simulation game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Reigns: Three Kingdoms is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 4th February 2025
Recent improvements include:
We’ve squashed bugs and made behind-the-scenes improvements to bring Netflix members the best possible gameplay experience.
Download & Availability
Reigns: Three Kingdoms is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Reigns: Three Kingdoms on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
We like the game, and for some reason people just rate this 1 star because they dont got a Netflix subscription. So just letting u guys know, u need a subscription for Netflix to use this game.
Reminds us of the late 1980s turn-based Nintendo game Nobunagas Ambition, but way better. Great premise (with some tech satire thrown in), excellent game mechanics. Some storylines might be buggy, and others are cut too short, but overall the best mobile game Ive played in years.
This game is very fun and addictive and has good mechanics despite sometimes scoring cards in terms of you getting closer to dying or not being weird, but its bugs have made us delete and redownload the game twice. The first being the traveling bug which another reviewer spoke about which wouldnt let you play the game after you picked the travel option. The second was when a key character who died kept interacting with us and the emperor who resigned kept getting gifts. We also stopped being able to complete quests and got stuck doing the same battle.
Exciting at first, but horribly repetitive and wasnt able to keep us motivated to finish. Love the storyline and added aspects to make it different from the other reigns, but doesnt particularly stand out. Gameplay is very odd, but simple, and we appreciate that.
Like other reviews Ive come across the same bug that says travel anywhere and it makes your screen freeze on a blank screen and you have to redownload and lose all your data, on top of that you cant recruit the 3 brothers, its impossible because the option isnt there.
Game is okay, but we got the option to travel anywhere and when we swiped to accept it, it froze. Nothing worked. Not even exiting the app fixes it. It is stuck like that.
We enjoyed this game very much, especially compared to all the other Reign games (especially the combat mode)! Im some what familiar with the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, so playing this was very simple on understanding the concept but your choices predict what characters and outcomes lead you to have.
These games are pure genius, but you must understand and accept the most basic tenet if you are to be successful and enjoy them – balance. They actually show how hard it is to rule successfully. So fun.
We are all about our interaction with a game. Can you immerse us? And there’s so many ways to do that.. This game achieves that by making every single choice you make matter. Drastically. From choosing factions and helping the people to starting wars and taking new land Reigns has you both on the commoners roads and in King/Queens chair. THE ONLY THING we’d just like to mentions to the creators is that a note section would be nice. We’re an aloof person and we read these names and attributes to these future characters as ways to help influence our future but we don’t have a place to toggle to for note keeping. Yes… We could open another app… But we love immersion, like we said, just thought we’d mention it.
We played this game and many other games by Devolver like cult of the lamb and hotline Miami and we think Loop hero would be a great addition to to the Netflix mobile games roster we know loop hero got ported to mobile.
We love it and think its great! Im so grateful Netflix has so many amazing games to play! Its a stress free game and you just make guesses the best you can! We played it earlier in the day and tonight and we still havent died! Its a miracle lol.
We feel like they really honed in the formula in this iteration. The RNGs probably the best in this version. Storylines feel fleshed out, but doesnt feel repetitive or forced like it does in her Majesty. The stats move just right, it doesnt feel too slow or too drastic we mostly really appreciate the expanded politics, negotiations, allyships, war, conquering land. Its interesting to meet different kinds of people from all over the map, and its a lot more rewarding to work your way up to royalty, rather than having it just handed to you. Pushing forward with our agendas keeps us coming back our only real complaint is the synaptic time-travelling or whatever storyline. To be blunt, we think its kind of dumb. Im sorry we dont understand how we cant suspend our disbelief that were just some person in ancient China, yet time travel is supposed to make more sense. Its annoying, unnecessary, and it couldve easily done without it. Luckily its easy to skim over But! Overall, we like this game. We appreciate how every decision you make matters. Its fun, the art is gorgeous. We like it.
We have thoroughly enjoyed playing through this game and we still have so much to go! We play it ever night before bed and always end up staying up at too late as a result haha. That being said, Ive grown pretty frustrated with what we believe is a pretty serious glitch. When prompted to travel anywhere (as in the game does not have a choice of traveling to a specific region) if you select that option, the screen becomes a blank cream color permanently, no longer giving you any choices whatsoever. The only fix Ive found is deleting the app, redownloading it, and then having to play through the entire game again. This is our second time downloading the game as a result of this glitch and it just happened again. Im fairly upset. All in all, the game is incredibly fun. We love all the reigns games.
Immerse yourself in Chinese culture and history in an interesting story based game for NETFLIX members. The biggest flaw in the game is the multiplayer function which never seems to have enough players to get a real time game match. The story takes many tries and numerous deaths to complete. Although it can get repetitive, there is enough variance to warrant a play though. Get this game if you are a NETFLIX member with an interest in history or Chinese culture.
Our only two issues are the difficulty when it comes to appeasing the people to much and they kill you, a difficulty setting would be nice. The other issue is a more detailed instruction of what we need to do to complete the quests we start. A suggestion would be the ability to move to different areas before being prompted.
Was really loving this game. However, at a certain point it gave us the choice to travel somewhere. The game then crashed and will now only load a blank screen when we try to load our game.
We really, really love this game. The idea of time is very interesting to us, and this game delivers. It also has elements from The Matrix in it, with all of the good parts of the rest of the series. The combat system is very fun, too, since depending on how much you plan and strategize, you can win with much worse characters than the enemy, or the enemy can pull one over on you. The quests give you plenty to do as well. The only thing we would change is to make the RNG better for players to get prompts from NPCs to complete the quests. Ive failed more than 2 events simply because we had no idea if the prompt was new for this, or was an average one.
This game has been a really weird breath of fresh air for us. We just wanted a mindless game to play to wait in between classes. We didnt know we would find our self crying in the hallway of our university because of this game. 9.5 on art style out of time 8.5 on characters 9.0 on flavor text. Spoilers. The story . . . While brow your socks off! 10/10.
Every thing to the game to the art style.
Please improve multiplayer its so fun but we cant choose the cards and its very limiting.
Im a big fan of the Reign series mechanics, this one included. However, the computer difficulty needs to be increased for battles. It was hardly a challenge. There were so many quests that we also couldnt complete because the game never prompted us to return to the original places where the events would continue. It would help to include a travel option so players can choose where to go. If that is already a mechanic in the game then we must have failed to see where to do that. Overall it was a fun little game but we wont return to this particular one anytime soon.
Reins but you can conquer land and be gay.
A decent evolution to the reigns formula. The new combat system is pretty fun and having a map with different locations definitely increases the immersion and adds some flavor to the world. Other than that, the story is pretty incohesive – its like it just skips around and cuts past scenes and interactions entirely, and constantly. However there are some cool ideas thrown into the story here and there – with a few jaw-dropping plot twists sprinkled in. Its entertaining enough, more-so than its predecessors.
Fun to play save for the braindead decisions the CPU sometimes makes in the combat mini game. Please make harder.
Its really annoying how we always die before 1000 days also its annoying we cant travel to place when we want to.
The game is linear apparently. Be aware when you play 60 years in game you lose all of your progress and have to start over. Having the game reset would be fine but there should be a sandbox mode so you dont have to start over unexpectedly. Very frustrating.
Its a very unique game and can be fun a lot of fun. However, the game has silly choices that end up causing your death. Those choices take away from what the game could be.
The concept of this game is amazing. Its so fun making decisions that lead to certain outcomes but there is something that ruins this game as a whole. The fact that we max out a stat in the game and get punished by being killed is ridiculous. For example we maxed out virtue and the game killed us off. If the stat is empty then it would be understandable if we were killed. Its like the people who made this game tried to put an interesting and fun twist in it but they failed miserably and it ended up backfiring on them. If you fixed dying because of a maxed out stat then us and a lot of other players would be happy with this game. If it was fixed it would for sure be 5 stars but for now the game isnt enjoyable. Please fix this.
Looks nice, but you only know you have to pay after you download it, a little manipulative.
Ive played every Reigns game so far, and out of them all, this one was easily the most boring. The storyline was without its usual twists and surprises, the card game is extremely unbalanced, and its multiplayer has so few people that trying to match up with someone is either impossible or extremely unbalanced. Some of the cards that your opponents will have are just grossly broken, like gaining 3 strength every time one of their dudes drops. This is, frankly, a sad, sad game for the franchise.
We enjoy the game so much but the game doesnt allow any mistakes. If time flows you are unable to remedy your mistakes, which is annoying considering you have to clear the data to restart.
Like the previous reigns games but the Netflix deal seems to have given them a much higher budget. Smoother animations, more stuff, and better fighting.
We enjoy the game, but we feel like it isnt balanced well. Most of the decisions seem to do nothing but maintain your rule and are inconsequential. These are mainly repeats you have seen a hundred times and nothing important happens no matter what you choose. It is rare that you come across a decision that actually moves the story forward, and when you mess those up (which is very easy because it is a 50/50 guess most of the time) you know youll have to wait another fifteen minutes of pointless swiping until you come across it again (if ever). Basically, very little sense of progress. The game has a great base though, it just needs to be perfected.
The game was a lotta fun. We found ourselves swiping away trying to figure out all the secrets that laid within. It could use more scenarios but there were already a ton so maybe we were just bad at the game. Pretty cool to get this type of experience for free thanks to Netflix tho.
We absolutely adore this game series. This is by far the most entertaining one yet but it does have its problems. Characters will magically come back to life after they die, Cao Cao died of a stroke but was somehow there again during our next life. We also somehow got impregnated by our wife but when we died it said our character was male? Idk just weird bugs that need to be fixed but thoroughly enjoyable.
Like other reviews have said, the game itself is incredible and Im very addicted! We love the storylines and the integration of battle sequences! However, there is one spot in the game where you cannot swipe left or right and youre stuck. We really hope this gets fixed quickly as we are very invested in playing.
This game is fun to us, but when playing multiplayer, it freezes a lot so you have to exit out the app and come back. Especially frustrating when you are about to win a match.
Can you fix the bug that doesnt make us log in if our netflix profile is passcode protected.
Wish we could customize our character each new life. Or they look different. Make it easier to tell which gender then. Other then that not bad.
Its a difficult learning curve to figure out that swiping slowly shows which stats will be changed, and you dont even know if the changes are negative or positive, you also dont know right away which group the symbols are even representing or what theyre about right away- we keep getting stuck in situations where im too popular with all groups and eventually get forced in a bottleneck situation where ill just be killed for being too pleasant, the scholars give us a gifted bow and you shoot yourself with it everytime despite remembering what happened, as if your character wouldnt know better- or the soldiers try to celebrate and a random collapse of boulders occurs every single time. Like, if five of the last rulers died the same way, wouldnt they prevent that? Wouldnt the main character know not to get squished or shot? It just angers us allot but ive settled for just letting it happen and gradually claiming every region which is going smoothly as ive accepted sometimes only lasting a few cards, although id prefer to be able to stay alive for continuity on things like adopting the monkeys and saving them or having a relationship and so on, the card fights are pretty fun and easy though, the computer im fighting just seems to spazz around abit allot.
What the title says. All other profiles work fine but when we try to use one with a passcode the game immediately crashes.
Is a Netflix game. Not enough game here to make having an account worth it. Dropped Netflix years ago.
It doesnt open at all. Gets to the Netflix logo and crashes.
This has happened to us with all the games from Netflix. If you have a passcode active on your profile the game crashes.
We have been and not encountered any game breaking bugs, and its just a good game. The extra features like the combat and map make more types of choices possible. Our only issue is that the combat can be a bit too easy.
We were enjoying this game but the same bug that others mentioned has made us start over more than once.
Second time we hit this bug where we get stuck, swiping repeatedly fills up the meters but doesnt proceed to the next card. We dont want to start over again and reset our progress.
We cant even start the app without it crashing after choosing our Netflix account. Every time we click on it, it crashes. :(.
How this is rated so highly we dont understand the games pretty fun but it breaks constantly. We had to restart twice and a picture of amountain covers up half our screen.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.0.3834
- Size: 360.87 MB
- iOS: 16.0 or later
- Languages: AR, EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PL, PT, ZH, ES, SV, TH, ZH, TR
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References, Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor, Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes, Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes, Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: Netflix, Inc.
Last updated: 4th February 2025 | Genre: Simulation, Strategy | Developer: Netflix, Inc.