Total War: WARHAMMER
Total War: WARHAMMER
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Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition
Developer CREATIVE ASSEMBLY, Feral Interactive (Mac), Feral Interactive (Linux)
Empire: Total War is a turn-based strategy and real-time tactics video game developed by Creative Assembly and published by Sega. The fifth instalment in the Total War series, the game was released in 2009. The game, which focuses on the early modern period of the 18th century, was announced at the Leipzig Games Convention in August 2007. Feral Interactive released the game for OS X and Linux in 2014, and for… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
511 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
79
LovedLoved
239 positive · 62 negative
95% range 74–84%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 239 | 62 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 22 | 9 | 137 |
| Mastodon * | 3 | 0 | 35 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 1 | 3 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
19,661 of 21,792 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
84% recommend · 204 yes, 38 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 242 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (34,656 of 38,229 positive).
Several reviewers note the game suffers from technical issues like crashes and broken AI. [1][2][3][4] Players express a strong desire for a sequel or remaster with modern updates. [5][6][7][8]
Liked
Representative posts
- [2]
Will 100% crash if America goes independant and you are not playing them Which in 2026 is hilariously ironic, if not sad. It has to do with US commander Cloudsley Croucher, who if he moves into any US held town center, the game will crash. If he is killed in battle, the game will crash. If the US gets wiped out (thus wiping him out) the game will crash. I've found no mods that fixes this issue. There are workarounds …
- [13]
This review is written with Total War players in mind. As such, it will not adress basic gameplay that is inherent in all Total War games, such as turn based production and real time battling, but rather will compare Empire: Total War with other Total War titles. As a Total War fan, my personal preference goes to this title, Empire. I like most Total War games, but Empire stands out to me. For one, I enjoy the …
- [17]
Empire Total War is like making the world's best cake recipe, then trying to cook it in the cheapest oven you could get, for half the recommended time. The ambition is admirable but the tech of 2009 seems to have undermined much of this game in retrospect. Land battles especially can be painfully janky, especially in the way units interact with terrain. Unit behavior in general can be infuriating, especially with …
- [14]
Empire Total War is a game about managing power on a global scale. While it may initially appear to be a traditional Total War title focused on battles and expansion, its true strength lies elsewhere, on the campaign map, across oceans, and in the long term consequences of strategic decisions. Seas, logistics, trade and long-term planning define the experience far more than individual battles. The game excels at …
- [1]
Indian overpopulation makes the game crash.
Summarised from 34 of the 363 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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Players who liked Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition talk about best naval battles in the Total War series; those who didn't talk about frequent crashes and save corruption in late game. Which matters more to you?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Empire: Total War received "universal acclaim" according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. Reviewers praised the large scope of the game's strategy map PC Gamer UK noted that the game "takes a great deal of its design philosophy from the events and trends of its era", which enabled the game to reasonably reflect the challenges faced by the factions' historical counterparts. Praise was also given to the extensive number of factions, down to very small factions such as the Knights of St. John and a renegade pirate settlement. Kieron Gillen, reviewing for Eurogamer, described the campaign map as "endless" and due to the large amount of content, observed that he had managed to…
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 511 · 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
neutral · 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 →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 →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 →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 →This review is written with Total War players in mind. As such, it will not adress basic gameplay that is inherent in all Total War games, such as turn based production and real time battling, but rather will compare Empire: Total War with other Total War titles. As a Total War fan, my personal preference goes to this title, Empire. I like most Total War games, but Empire stands out to me. For one, I enjoy the historic time period. For two, it plays the most 'different' from the other titles.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →OPPORTUNITY! - Writer - Total War - UK, or Bulgaria Not affiliated. Shares welcome! gamejobs.co/Game-Writer-...
neutral · AI labelView 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 →"A New World" Massive Expansion to Empire Total War in 2025 - Mobile Only Will flip this to positive when the PC players get the same treatment as their mobile players
negative · 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 →Peak Total War game, if they were smart they would completely remaster this game and add some minor nations/nation-states and give us Total War Empire II maybe even starting it off where this one ends - 1800ish
positive · 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 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 →Will 100% crash if America goes independant and you are not playing them Which in 2026 is hilariously ironic, if not sad. It has to do with US commander Cloudsley Croucher, who if he moves into any US held town center, the game will crash. If he is killed in battle, the game will crash. If the US gets wiped out (thus wiping him out) the game will crash. I've found no mods that fixes this issue. There are workarounds like never letting America gain independance. But I've given up on…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView 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 →Despite graphics being slightly outdated nowadays, it's still an extraordinary game from a great franchise. Brings back a plentiful of childhood memories, would love to see a remake at some point.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView 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 →Full of glitches and bad AI. You will be unable to finish a long campaign without the game becoming soft locked by enemy turns eventually crashing you and stopping you progressing past a certain year.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView 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 →Can we please have the update that the mobile version got? This game is much better on PC even just because of the controls alone but I would love to have all the new stuff that the mobile players got.
positive · 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 →Best Total War game hands down. Please make a ETWII, it's a necessity.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →EMPIRE is my favorite in the series. Just the campaign map alone makes it the deepest experience and offers great replayability.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →playing this game and watching the Patriot or a Kings & Generals documentary of the time period at the same time is peak
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Still my absolute favourite of the Total War series, desperately needs a sequel or at least a proper remaster.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →source: Slingers are pretty goated in Total War Pharoah's early game
neutral · 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 →Creative Assembly / SEGA just released a "remaster" of a 2011 game (Total War: Shogun 2) that appeared to be mostly done by AI, complete with six-fingered samurai art and new code with game-breaking bugs. 48 hours and a 17% positive review score later, they're pulling it from all stores.
neutral · AI labelView post →Indian overpopulation makes the game crash.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →By far still the best and most easily replayable of the Total War series. Here we are 16 year later and I'm still enjoying the replayability.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Empire Total War is like making the world's best cake recipe, then trying to cook it in the cheapest oven you could get, for half the recommended time. The ambition is admirable but the tech of 2009 seems to have undermined much of this game in retrospect. Land battles especially can be painfully janky, especially in the way units interact with terrain. Unit behavior in general can be infuriating, especially with pathfinding and formations. Certainly the worst in any TW game I've played.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Our video review for Total War: Rome – The Board Game from PSC Games. theplayersaid.com/2025/10/31/v...
neutral · AI labelView post →@aristocratmouse.bsky.social I'm working on an incremental strategy game where you build a settlement, grow your economy, and raise an army, with Total War-style battles! Does the concept look interesting to you? Army Factory on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/5094230/... #indiegame #gamedev
neutral · AI labelView post →I've owned Empire: Total War – Definitive Edition for years, and I still come back to it every now and then. There's just something satisfying about starting with a small nation and slowly building a powerful empire. Managing your economy, researching new technologies, expanding your territory, and fighting large-scale battles never gets old. The naval battles are still some of the best I've played in any strategy game. Every nation offers a different experience, so each campaign feels fresh…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sega and Creative Assembly have pulled Total War: Shogun 2 – Complete Edition from stores following player complaints over performance issues, bugs, and AI-upscaled graphics. vgc.news/news/sega-pu...
neutral · AI labelView post →Total War: SHOGUN 2 - Complete Edition is out now! 🏯 Get a 75% discount if you own the original game on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3846830/... 🎥 youtu.be/7GhrQYfOPPw
neutral · AI labelView post →Slightly Diminish A Game Shogun: Near-Total War
neutral · AI labelView post →I think for whichever Total War game you can name, there are games that deliver the feelings better. For Medieval Total War it's CK3, for Rome Total War it's A Legionary's Life, for Three Kingdoms Total War it's Romance X, etc.
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