Perhaps you didn’t notice that Shogun Showdown recently hit 1.0. Perhaps you hadn’t heard of it at all since it was released in early access in 2023. I hadn’t. And that’s a shame.

The daimyos, powerful hereditary warlords, administered large tracts of lands awarded to them (or their family line) by the shogun. These large territories were known as han (藩 – Domain). A daimyo was ...