Rise of the Ronin is an action-role-playing game set in Edo, in the mid-19th century during Bakumatsu, the final years of the Edo period, the game depicts the Boshin war between the Tokugawa Shogunate and various anti-shogunate factions displeased with the western influence after the forced reopening of Japan following the Sakoku period. The story follows a nameless ronin carving their path through the war and political upheaval that defined the period.