---
title: "James Clavell's Shōgun"
description: "The player assumes the role of John Blackthorne, Pilot-Major of the Dutch trading ship Erasmus. During a voyage in the Pacific Ocean in the year 1600, the Erasm"
image: "https://t.vndb.org/cv/30/86430.jpg"
---

# James Clavell's Shōgun

![James Clavell's Shōgun](https://t.vndb.org/cv/30/86430.jpg)

**Developer:** Infocom

**Release date:** Mar 14, 1989

**Platform:** DOS, macOS, Website, OTH

**Language:** English

**Rating:** 5.7/10 (avg, 4 votes)

## Description
The player assumes the role of John Blackthorne, Pilot-Major of the Dutch trading ship Erasmus. During a voyage in the Pacific Ocean in the year 1600, the Erasmus is shipwrecked in Japan. Blackthorne must survive in a land where every custom is as unfamiliar to him as the language. After learning some of the society's ways, he is drawn into a political struggle between warlords and falls in love with a Japanese woman.

As the title indicates, the game is based on the book Shōgun by James Clavell.

[from [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clavell%27s_Sh%C5%8Dgun)]

## Shops
- [Official Website](https://archive.org/details/msdos_James_Clavells_Shogun_1988)

## Releases
### English
- **1989-03-14**: James Clavell's Shogun
- **1989-03-21**: James Clavell's Shogun
- **1989-05-10**: James Clavell's Shogun
- **1989-07-06**: James Clavell's Shogun
- **2014-12-23**: James Clavell's Shogun - [Official website](https://archive.org/details/msdos_James_Clavells_Shogun_1988)

## Tags
NVL, Male Protagonist, Violence, Sengoku Period, No Sexual Content, Interactive Adventure Game, Foreigner Protagonist, Literary Adaptation, Second-person Narrative, Text Parser, Pixel Art

## More Games from Infocom
- [James Clavell's Shōgun](https://pinovel.net/v12659)
- [Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur](https://pinovel.net/v12665)

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