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Total War: PHARAOH
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Total War: ATTILA
Developer CREATIVE ASSEMBLY, Feral Interactive
Total War: Attila is a strategy video game developed by Creative Assembly and published by Sega, released on 17 February 2015 for OS X, Windows, and Linux, as well as Mac OS later on after release. It is the ninth standalone game in the Total War series. The game begins in 395 AD, during what is now called Late Antiquity (the transition period from Classical Rome to the Middle Ages in European history). The main… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
508 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
74
Fresh
222 positive · 76 negative
95% range 69–79%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 222 | 76 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 26 | 14 | 128 |
| Mastodon * | 3 | 0 | 35 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 4 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
14,898 of 18,619 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
77% recommend · 182 yes, 53 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 235 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (31,218 of 37,862 positive).
Many players praise the game's grim atmosphere and survival-focused campaign. [1][2][3] Several reviewers highlight the Lord of the Rings mod as a major reason to buy. [4][5][6] Some players criticize the game for poor optimization and performance issues. [7][8][9]
Liked
Representative posts
- [9]
This game had a potential to be good. I like overall feeling of grand campaigns. Razing and burning cities is fun. But its a shame that CA abandoned it and didn't fix nothing after all this years. Attila looks and runs really bad compared to shogun 2 or rome 2. I done everything you can to fix performance manually and with mods, spend a lot of time on it. But its still runs worst than any other modern total war game …
- [7]
Ah yes, Attila. The most notoriously poorly optimized total war... yet one of the best ever made. This game is a challenge.... it will take steel and blood.... (proverbial) to hold the empire together! For this game, I recommend for users with more modern hardware to use process lasso, a program that governs the game to run on your performance cpu cores only.... the game engine likes to bottleneck otherwise. Be sure …
- [1]
If you want a game where you quickly become the strongest and your entire reason for playing is to paint the map? This is not the game for you If you want a strategy and tactics game that somehow captures the spirit of the dark souls franchise? This is the game for you. If you really hate your maidenless self? Start as the western roman empire first. This is the odd game out in many ways for total war. your goal is …
- [2]
Total War: Attila is probably the grimmest, most oppressive, and weirdly beautiful strategy game Creative Assembly ever made. Most strategy games make expansion feel inevitable. Attila makes collapse feel inevitable, and that completely changes the psychology of how you play. You are not building a shining empire at the height of civilization. You are trying to survive the slow-motion end of the world while …
- [4]
Bought this just to play the Lord of the Rings Mod called "The Dawnless Days". Its amazing.
Summarised from 34 of the 356 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 11, 2026. How summaries are made
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Total War: ATTILA sits at 74% positive across 298 opinionated reactions from 4 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Total War: Attila received "generally favorable" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic. Dan Griliopoulos from PC Gamer gave the game 83/100, praising the in-game representation of history, enjoyable multiplayer, stunning music, animation and sound-effect, improved army and character management as well as the themes, which he stated "has reflected the era accurately" and the new family system, which adds new complexity into the game. He also praised the developer for fixing the long-term problems in the series. However, he criticized the extreme difficulty, AI problem, laggy chat in multiplayer, frame rate issues and bugs. He concluded the game by saying that "[Total War:…
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Reactions
60 of 508 · most liked firstAlgorithm ✅ 💁♀️Here’s information about me🫶 🌟Franchises I LOVE: -❤️ Final Fantasy ✨ -❤️ Dark Souls -❤️ Lord of the Rings -❤️ Game of Thrones -❤️ Baldur’s Gate -❤️ Fallout -❤️ Elder Scrolls -❤️ Halo -❤️ Total War 👱🏼♀️ In my 30s 😻 Cat Enjoyer 👩💻 Tech enthusiast 🏳️🌈 LGBTQ+ 🏳️⚧️ 🎮 Gamer ♡/⟳ appreciated 🤗 #promosky
neutral · AI labelView post →Hiya Bluesky! 🦋 💁♀️Here’s information about me🫶 🌟Franchises I LOVE: -❤️ Final Fantasy ✨ -❤️ Dark Souls -❤️ Lord of the Rings -❤️ Game of Thrones -❤️ Baldur’s Gate -❤️ Fallout -❤️ Elder Scrolls -❤️ Halo -❤️ Total War 👱🏼♀️ In my 30s 😻 Cat Enjoyer 👩💻 Tech enthusiast 🏳️🌈 LGBTQ+ 🏳️⚧️ 🎮 Gamer ♡/⟳ appreciated 🤗 #promosky
neutral · AI labelView post →right now I can pay 20 dollars for Warhammer Total War III, a game that could scarcely even be imagined in 1998. that's the equivalent of 10 dollars in 1998 prices, which is what I would try to scrounge together for a copy of PC Gamer so I could play one janky level of Myth on the demo disc
positive · AI labelView post →I’ve been on Bluesky for less than a week and I’m loving it! ❤️ 💁♀️Here’s information about me🫶 🌟Franchises I LOVE: -Final Fantasy✨ -Souls -LOTR -Game of Thrones -Baldur’s Gate -Fallout -Elder Scrolls -Halo -Total War 👱🏼♀️In my 30s 👩💻Tech enthusiast 🏳️🌈LGBTQ🏳️⚧️ 🎮Gamer ♡/⟳ appreciated 🤗 #promosky #promotwt
neutral · AI labelView post →Bought this just to play the Lord of the Rings Mod called "The Dawnless Days". Its amazing.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Discussing games with a friend, why I keep going back to FALLOUT 4; I finally clarified that my ideal game is "THE SIMS with occasional firefights" and that's a limited marketplace. STATE OF DECAY 2, a bit. I'd take a TOTAL WAR with base management but a smaller -- oh shit it's CULT OF THE LAMB.
neutral · AI labelView post →AI slop is impacting all of our lives in different ways but the more recent way it has broken my heart is watching Creative Assembly ruin the Total War franchise with it with their rerelease of Shogun 2. I can only imagine how fucked their 40k game is going to look when it comes out.
negative · AI labelView post →Paused my game mid battle to say this is the easiest total war ever made. I only just started and these cowardly nomads are already running away. All I have to do now is leave my position to give chase and victory will be mine!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →POV: you're 500 years into a Rome Total War classic game.
neutral · AI labelView post →There is enough historical precedent for this that it is a persistent game mechanic in Total War lol
neutral · AI labelView post →Next major Total War game to be announced at The Game Awards "it represents one of the most ambitious games we have ever worked on at a studio and we can’t wait to share it with you" www.gematsu.com/2025/12/next...
neutral · AI labelView post →Alongside the Lords of the End Times, Total War: Warhammer III is getting one of its biggest-ever game updates. From a host of improvements and reworks to some new campaign and battle content in the shape of our latest free Legendary Lord, Neferata. 📖 news.totalwar.com/lotet-flc-ne...
neutral · AI labelView post →why bother buying the new 80 dollar AAA slop game when Total War: Warhammer 3 has 1000s of hours worth of gameplay in it and they've fixed the majority of the problems it had at launch
positive · AI labelView post →Lord of the rings mod makes this good game into an excellent game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →All DLC for the original Total War: SHOGUN 2 is now free to everyone who owns the base game on Steam! Experience the Rise and Fall of the Samurai before Total War: SHOGUN 2 - Complete Edition launches on Oct 13th 🌸 More info: news.totalwar.com/s2ce-faq
neutral · AI labelView post →Total War: Warhammer 40K announced, the next game in the series #TheGameAwards
neutral · AI labelView post →New Total War game to be announced at The Game Awards, confirms Creative Assembly ➡️ www.gamesradar.com/games/total-...
neutral · AI labelView post →still mad we haven't gotten this Total War game
negative · AI labelView post →OPPORTUNITY! - Writer - Total War - UK, or Bulgaria Not affiliated. Shares welcome! gamejobs.co/Game-Writer-...
neutral · AI labelView post →Bought this just to play the Lord of the Rings Mod called "The Dawnless Days". Its amazing.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Patch 6.2 will be available tomorrow in Total War: WARHAMMER III. Check out the patch notes now to see what changes we are bringing to the game! 📜 news.totalwar.com/wh3-patch-620
neutral · AI labelView post →Yoooo Total War Three Kingdoms is (one of) the Epic Games Free Game for today! If you're like me, and I know I am, you like learning stuff about the Romance of the Three Kingdoms but find its scale and massive cast of characters kinda daunting. Total War Three Kingdoms makes the setting playable!
positive · AI labelView post →The only reason I'm liking and recommending is because of the Dawnless days mod. If you love lord of the rings and want to play a fun mod get this game and get the mod!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've played Total War: Warhammer 40,000, and I think it might be the "definitive" game for the 40k setting it's aiming to be www.eurogamer.net/total-war-wa...
neutral · AI labelView post →Seems we have our (first?) SEGA announcement, presented by David Harbour (who will be in the game): Total War: Warhammer 40K.
neutral · AI labelView post →Very excited for Total War Warhammer 40k to be announced tonight at the game awards
positive · AI labelView post →I really like 40K and I really like Total War, but a 40K Total War game sounds like a truly awful idea to me
negative · AI labelView post →I kinda wish there was a Total War game based on The Elder Scrolls.
neutral · AI labelView post →Oh I guess this also marks the second time a game I worked on became a cocktail lol. South Pacific Drive 🤝 Rum Total War
neutral · AI labelView post →Total War Warhammer npc factions will see the end times event start up and go, "Time for some Game of Thrones bullshit, and by that we mean ignoring the looming greater threat in favor of going to war with each other, not the sexual stuff, it's allllll self-destructive politics over here."
neutral · AI labelView post →love this, but i am old and cant play the newer games so it may not be for younger players
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game had a potential to be good. I like overall feeling of grand campaigns. Razing and burning cities is fun. But its a shame that CA abandoned it and didn't fix nothing after all this years. Attila looks and runs really bad compared to shogun 2 or rome 2. I done everything you can to fix performance manually and with mods, spend a lot of time on it. But its still runs worst than any other modern total war game i played. 60-80 average fps that goes down to 40-50 if battle is massive and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I used to try and help mod Medieval Total War II and fucking EVERYTHING in that game is close-sourced and impossible to work around and yet people did it anyways. OpenMorrowind took like 20 years and that game’s assets were already accessible so excuse me if I go “lol wut no.”
neutral · AI labelView post →I can understand why many players consider Attila one of the best Total War games. The atmosphere, the setting and the feeling of a collapsing world are excellent. However, I strongly disagree with the way the Huns are implemented. My issue is not that they are powerful. A late-game existential threat is perfectly fine. The problem is that they often seem disconnected from the same strategic limitations the player faces. In my campaign I destroyed multiple Hun armies in a single turn. The…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I think this is less Paradox and more Total War. Nearly everyone who's ever played a grand strategy game has played Total War.
neutral · AI labelView post →Total War if you continue to add in one random female warlord into every game I will main her without question. Thank u for the bare minimum 🙏
positive · AI labelView post →Back on the Steam page for Total War: SHOGUN 2 - Complete Edition and have only just clocked the user-defined tags (pictured below). LOL. Context: The game was pulled because it was naff and apparently failed to disclose the use of genAI.
neutral · AI labelView post →Do you want a new Lord of the Rings RTS? This Total War: Attila mod has given the game a popularity boost www.eurogamer.net/lord-of-the-...
neutral · AI labelView post →Marathon unc game discourse is Total War erasure and I want no part of it
neutral · AI labelView post →40k TOTAL WAR IS ABSOLUTELY GONNA BE ANNOUNCED AT THE GAME AWARDS MY ASS WILL BE GLUED TO THE SEAT
positive · AI labelView post →Total War: Warhammer 40k is aiming to be the most complex and most accessible game Creative Assembly has ever made - here's how the devs managed both www.eurogamer.net/total-war-wa...
neutral · AI labelView post →Ah yes, Attila. The most notoriously poorly optimized total war... yet one of the best ever made. This game is a challenge.... it will take steel and blood.... (proverbial) to hold the empire together! For this game, I recommend for users with more modern hardware to use process lasso, a program that governs the game to run on your performance cpu cores only.... the game engine likes to bottleneck otherwise. Be sure to set your Video Memory under preferences to -1, it forces the game to use…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Total War 40K, also known as “How Mia is going to spend 1000 hours on one single video game again”
neutral · AI labelView post →Haven't played Attila in like 6 years. Saw a bunch of reviews saying the game is broken on Modern PCs and just got a new gaming PC for black Friday. Can't say I've experienced anything game breaking ... Maybe some extra bad AI path-finding but that's always been there. Excited for Rise of Mordor this Friday!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The main reason I bought this game was to enjoy the Medieval Kingdoms 1212AD mods rather than waiting for Total War Medieval 3, which is still uncertain. Vanilla alone is great, WRE/ERE are a big challenge. The Sassanids were much easier and felt like old-school Total War. DLC like Age of Charlemagne is a good time; it's the closest you can get to Medieval 3 without using mods. The game is a bit under-optimized, but there's a way to make the game's performance very optimized! Performance…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Get this game for the lord of the rings mod dawnless days it's worth it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Honestly I love this game. I only have 89 hours of play time, but it would be more. Sadly, the reason for that is its hard to play this game with all the game crashing bugs. Rome 2 and Shogun 2 have been my favorites so far, but Attila would surpass them if the game would just run. If its not crashing from trying to open the family/politics tab because there are too many characters or from just crashing ending your turn, then this game would easily have over 1k hours from me since I got it last…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Do not play this if you play on a 4K screen, it is a good game, but it does not feature a UI scaling option, so things like text are unreadable at high resolutions.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Title: The True Throne of the Middle Ages If you are a fan of medieval history, Total War: Attila combined with the 1212 AD Mod is arguably the ultimate experience you can get today. While the base game offers a dark and grueling survival campaign, the 1212 AD mod transforms this game into a majestic medieval sandbox—practically a fan-made Medieval 3. Key Highlights: 1.Medieval 3 in disguise: The depth, unit models, and mechanics feel like an official full-price title. 2.Stunning Unit…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Dawnless Days is an absolutely fantastic Lord of the Rings mod ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ From the very first battle, you feel like you are standing in the middle of the war for Gondor. The atmosphere is dense, dramatic, and unmistakably Tolkien. The lovingly crafted campaigns and custom battles are a must for every Lord of the Rings fan. Each army feels distinct, with units that clearly reflect their lore, strengths, and weaknesses. Elves fight like Elves, Orcs feel brutal and expendable, and the armies…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Relatively fun, sort of the same classic Rome 2 era of total war. Probably stray away if your PC has parts made within the decade. If you want to play, you need to go into your ini file and mess with the processor affinity of the .exe to make the game not run horribly. Big shoutout to Creative Assembly for creatively failing to assemble a game that can run properly.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Playing a 4-player game of Total War: Rome from CCC Games this morning! Beautiful production. Interesting Ameritrash game. All are having fun!
neutral · AI labelView post →A Total War Saga: Troy This game comes with a fully-functioning photo mode, with different sky box (sunlight) selection and positioning for lighting, toggle unit on/off, basic DoF and filters... But it doesn't feel as pretty as Three Kingdoms 🫤 and I can't seem to hotsample it. Might try again...
neutral · AI labelView post →Sega, Atlus, it’s time to give the people what they want: a Persona Total War game.
neutral · AI labelView post →Nope, not a great Total War game. I came to Attila expecting a game at the level of quality of Rome 2. And I really like the time period, I wanted to like this game, but after playing it I understand why Total War Attila is not so beloved in the community. While I like the setting I also feel like the setting is lacking: - The 395 start date with the West-Roman Empire split is great, but for some reason religion is split into Catholic & Orthodox too, someone forgot to tell the devs the schism…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →4070TI and graphics set to Max Performance and it still just stutters and freezes constantly
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you want a game where you quickly become the strongest and your entire reason for playing is to paint the map? This is not the game for you If you want a strategy and tactics game that somehow captures the spirit of the dark souls franchise? This is the game for you. If you really hate your maidenless self? Start as the western roman empire first. This is the odd game out in many ways for total war. your goal is less about conquering and more about sheer survival as the world around you…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →source: Slingers are pretty goated in Total War Pharoah's early game
positive · AI labelView post →This shit happened with a cousin of mine once or twice. Asked to join the group chat to game with us, "Nah, I got stuff to do." *Pops up with the Total War Warhammer 3 notification* ... Suddenly friend shouts out "ya fuckin' bastard, not again!"
neutral · AI labelView post →Total War: Attila is probably the grimmest, most oppressive, and weirdly beautiful strategy game Creative Assembly ever made. Most strategy games make expansion feel inevitable. Attila makes collapse feel inevitable, and that completely changes the psychology of how you play. You are not building a shining empire at the height of civilization. You are trying to survive the slow-motion end of the world while everything catches fire around you. And honestly? That atmosphere is incredible. The…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →
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