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Total War: NAPOLEON – Definitive Edition
Developer CREATIVE ASSEMBLY, Feral Interactive (Mac)
Napoleon: Total War is a turn-based strategy and real-time tactics video game developed by Creative Assembly and published by Sega for the Microsoft Windows and macOS. Napoleon was released in North America on 23 February 2010, and in Europe on 26 February. The game is the sixth stand-alone installment in the Total War series. The game is set in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East during the French… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
476 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
89
LovedLoved
238 positive · 28 negative
95% range 85–93%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 238 | 28 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 21 | 5 | 142 |
| 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
13,806 of 15,145 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
91% recommend · 190 yes, 18 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 208 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (25,424 of 27,739 positive).
Players praise the game as one of the best Total War titles, with cinematic battles and strong historical atmosphere. [1][2][3] Many note the active mod community keeps the game alive, especially for Napoleonic history enthusiasts. [4][5][6] Some reviewers report the game is unplayable on modern systems due to crashes and compatibility issues. [7][8][9]
Liked
Representative posts
- [7]
Great game, while not quite on the level of Fall of the Samurai its just Empire with improvements -- however, I have had had constant crashes to desktop and the game is basically unplayable/unenjoyable, which is weird because I don't have this issue with Empire or Shogun 2... Just FYI -- great game but unplayable rn with no decent solutions online.
- [1]
Well, sir. On first sighting Napoleon: Total War, I naturally gave the order to purchase it; that's my style, sir! I downloaded the game and engaged the enemy. Major Lennox panicked, so I spent over 1,000 hours playing, and acquired all the achievements. I have written to Sega, sir, to state that the Creative Assembly team acquitted themselves most commendably in discharging both your general orders, to design a …
- [14]
Look, the Russian winter attrition mechanic is total unbalanced ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, and Wellington is a massive camper who just spams infantry squares on hills with zero skill. Not to mention my support player, Grouchy, went completely AFK at Waterloo while Blücher stream-sniped my right flank. But despite the devs clearly being paid off by the British, there is absolutely no better feeling than micromanaging a Grand Battery …
- [12]
Napoleon is a very different take on the Total War genre, very similar to Empire. It has a broad time frame set right in the middle of the Napoleonic Wars. You play as most major powers in Europe, and it has historical battles along with cool and interesting naval battles. This Total War has the best naval gameplay I've seen in a strategy game. The cons are the campaigns are weak, diplomacy sucks, and the AI is just …
- [3]
This game is, in my opinion, the best strategy game that captures the Napoleonic Wars era, and the best installment in the Total War series. The game is incredibly beautiful, and the campaigns and battles are very realistic, especially the cannons and morale. It's a game that surpasses all others.
Summarised from 34 of the 329 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
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
91% of the 208 Steam reviewers we collected recommend Total War: NAPOLEON – Definitive Edition. The complaint that keeps coming up: frequent crashes and freezes on modern PCs. Deal-breaker or nitpick?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Napoleon: Total War received "generally favorable" reviews, according to review aggregator website Metacritic. The game and its developers alike were praised for a number of graphical and AI improvements, along with the new campaign features and multiplayer modes. IGN remarked that the "tactical battles are still some of the most amazing we've ever seen in any game." Gameplanet came to the same conclusion, stating that "graphically, the battles leave Empire in the dust, featuring five times more particles per effect." GameSpot praised the interface, saying that "[it] never feels cluttered, and the bulk of the screen is always devoted to the action." Other aspects of the game received a…
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 476 · 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.
neutral · 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
positive · AI labelView 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 →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 →My enemies are many, my equals are also many, in the shade of olive trees, I lost the Italian campaign on easy mode in this game, would recommend though 9/10
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 →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 →Well, sir. On first sighting Napoleon: Total War, I naturally gave the order to purchase it; that's my style, sir! I downloaded the game and engaged the enemy. Major Lennox panicked, so I spent over 1,000 hours playing, and acquired all the achievements. I have written to Sega, sir, to state that the Creative Assembly team acquitted themselves most commendably in discharging both your general orders, to design a game; and your particular order to make it fantastic.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →what can i say.. its one of the better Total War games... and despite its many flaws and bugs its leagues ahead of anything Creative Assembly comes with these days...
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Look, the Russian winter attrition mechanic is total unbalanced ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, and Wellington is a massive camper who just spams infantry squares on hills with zero skill. Not to mention my support player, Grouchy, went completely AFK at Waterloo while Blücher stream-sniped my right flank. But despite the devs clearly being paid off by the British, there is absolutely no better feeling than micromanaging a Grand Battery of 12-pounders to completely vaporize an English frontline. Ruling Europe and…
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 →Game is still very much alive and has an active mod community even in 2026. If you're a serious Napoleonic history buff, I'd suggest installing NTW3 or another overhaul mod. The base game offers very little in terms of replay ability, besides the Europe campaign. Hopefully we'll get a remaster if Creative Assembly ever eventually decides to stop making out with Warhammer.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game, while not quite on the level of Fall of the Samurai its just Empire with improvements -- however, I have had had constant crashes to desktop and the game is basically unplayable/unenjoyable, which is weird because I don't have this issue with Empire or Shogun 2... Just FYI -- great game but unplayable rn with no decent solutions online.
negative · 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 →16 years have passed since its release. 16 years ago, this was simply an incredible game for me, an easy 10/10. Even today, games of this quality are not made very often, especially in the strategy genre.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView 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 →---{ Graphics & Visibility }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☑ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ I can't see my units through the visual clutter ---{ Tactical Gameplay }--- ☐ Perfect ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just micromanagement ☐ Macro is non-existent ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio/Sound }--- ☐ Pure Realistic ☐ Very good orchestral score ☑ Good ☐ "Ready to work" on repeat ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf from explosion spam ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Still playing in 2026 with mods. If you are a fan of Napoleonic warfare, then this game is for you. It has improved gameplay compared to Empire: TW but is much smaller in scale. The modding community have continued to improve the base game. I hope we someday get a newer version of this gem with the Empire map and Napoleon improvements. An open-world style gameplay option between 1750 thru 1890 would be incredible with options for US civil war campaigns and smaller conflicts during this…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good game, wish they create Empire Total War 2 officially
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 →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 →@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 wish CA would make another musket and pike era Total War game, this one always hits the spot of what Total War games excelled at
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView 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 →Classic Total War aura, great UI, the battles are cinematic, immersive and realistic, one of the best.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView 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.
neutral · AI labelView post →If it was in Total War it'd probably be Rome 1 cause I really like that one; but it could also be in a Paradox game, one of the Crusader Kings-es or such
neutral · AI labelView post →#game event? Or just hanging out with The Guys? Can't be both??? #Shanghai #TotalWar #Warhammer40K
neutral · AI labelView post →I bought Napoleon: Total War (and Empire) hoping to relive the classic battles, but the games freeze and crash for no reason. It doesn’t matter if you have a modern PC or lower all the graphics settings — they hang during campaigns or crash while loading battles. I’ve verified the files, reinstalled, deleted configs, updated drivers… nothing helps. It’s a shame, because the concept is great, but the engine is so old and unstable that it’s basically unplayable in 2025. Hope Napoleon II ,…
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