Tenchu

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Tenchu
Genre(s)	Action-adventure, stealth
Developer(s)	Acquire, K2 LLC, FromSoftware
Publisher(s)	Sony Music Entertainment Japan, Activision, Acquire, FromSoftware, Sega, Nintendo, Microsoft Game Studios, Ubisoft
Creator(s)	Takuma Endo
Platform(s)	PlayStation PlayStation 2 Xbox PlayStation Portable Nintendo DS Xbox 360 Wii
First release	Tenchu: Stealth Assassins February 26, 1998
Latest release	Tenchu: Shadow Assassins February 2009

Tenchu^[a] is an action-adventure stealth video game series owned by Japanese game publisher FromSoftware, where the player assumes the role of a ninja in 16th-century feudal Japan. The first game in the series titled Tenchu: Stealth Assassins was developed by Japanese developer Acquire and published in 1998. Later games have also been developed by K2 LLC and FromSoftware. The current rightsholder to the series is FromSoftware who bought the rights from Activision in 2004.

The title in Japanese literally translates in English as "Divine Retribution", with 天 (ten) meaning heaven and 誅 (chū) meaning death penalty (another translation of this phrase, Wrath of Heaven, is the title of the first PlayStation 2 entry in the series).
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