禁欲三国志

Premise and setting

禁欲三国志 is a PC side-scrolling role-playing game set in a Three Kingdoms world where states control people through restrictions around sex. You play a male villager who gains a special power called the Crest and becomes known as the Chosen One. The story follows his rise from obscurity toward becoming an emperor, with choices that shape whether he takes multiple wives or seeks to conquer the world.

The three states each maintain power in a different way. Wei claims legitimacy through the former government and emperor, promotes its own strength, and uses a top-down system of surveillance and violence. Shu relies on a partly open entertainment industry to win public support. Wu’s wealthy interests promote progress and freedom while using laws and administration, ostensibly to protect vulnerable groups, as a means of exploiting the population.