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Total War: ROME II - Emperor Edition
Developer CREATIVE ASSEMBLY, Feral Interactive
Total War: Rome II is a strategy video game developed by Creative Assembly and published by Sega. It was released on 3 September 2013, for Microsoft Windows as the eighth standalone game in the Total War series of video games and the successor to the 2004 game Rome: Total War. Rome II received generally positive reviews from critics on release, but was criticized for its significant technical problems. However, it… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
552 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
78
LovedLoved
267 positive · 74 negative
95% range 74–82%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 267 | 74 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 18 | 11 | 140 |
| Mastodon * | 2 | 1 | 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
41,071 of 48,192 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
81% recommend · 199 yes, 47 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 246 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (77,638 of 88,643 positive).
Some reviewers report technical issues, especially on Windows 11. [1][2][3] Several players recommend mods to enhance the experience. [4][5][6]
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- [1]
This game doesn't work properly on Windows 11 and the developers don't care.
- [11]
Sixteen hundred hours my little bro played on this game . I and he thought it was a great game. He even played it during the last month of his life. RIP little bro. I and my son will continue playing it in your memory. This is a great game folks, get it on sale, it won't disappoint.
- [7]
Rome II is peak Total War. The mix of huge battles, empire building and classic Roman chaos still hits perfectly even now. The game handles Roman history in a way that feels genuinely fun. The Marian Reforms shake up your armies, politics is always stirring trouble and the civil war hangs over the campaign like a storm you know is coming. For a video game, it handles units and historical shifts with surprising …
- [13]
Actually, it is a great Total War game, and they improved several things compared to the first Rome: Total War. For example, you can now only send units with generals, so the AI can no longer spam single units across the map. They also added automatic garrisons for your settlements, so small rogue armies can't just take your cities for free. Even if you don't keep an army in a city, it is still defended by a small …
- [4]
First get - MIs Tiny CITY Mod + TINY VFX. Makes the game look great. Then get the Divide et Impera mods and you will have 100 hours of conquering before you! Praise be to Mars!
Summarised from 34 of the 367 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
81% of the 246 Steam reviewers we collected recommend Total War: ROME II - Emperor Edition. The complaint that keeps coming up: game crashes and fails to run on Windows 11. Deal-breaker or nitpick?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Total War: Rome II has an average score of 76/100 on Metacritic, indicating "generally favorable reviews". PC Gamer scored the game 85%, praising the cinematic scale of the battles and attention to detail, calling them "stunning" and "the most marvellous moments of the fifty plus hours I've played so far". In the same review, however, there was also criticism towards apparent glitches on its initial release, including issues with the AI, calling it "floppy". Edge similarly praised the visuals and battles while noting bugs on release, stating that "even as it topples, it's glorious to look at, and to live through." Daniel Starkey of GameSpot enjoyed the variety of units and what it called…
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Reactions
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neutral · AI labelView post →Sixteen hundred hours my little bro played on this game . I and he thought it was a great game. He even played it during the last month of his life. RIP little bro. I and my son will continue playing it in your memory. This is a great game folks, get it on sale, it won't disappoint.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView 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 →First get - MIs Tiny CITY Mod + TINY VFX. Makes the game look great. Then get the Divide et Impera mods and you will have 100 hours of conquering before you! Praise be to Mars!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView 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
neutral · 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 →Why Rome II Lost the Magic of the Original Rome: Total War As someone who spent countless hours playing the original Rome: Total War, I didn't dislike Rome II because it was different. I disliked it because it constantly interrupted the strategy with unnecessary interface friction. The original Rome: Total War had an interface that almost disappeared. You thought about empires, armies and battles—not menus. Rome II, on the other hand, frequently makes the player fight the interface…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView 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
neutral · AI labelView post →This game has been said to be the cause for many a divorce and I can see why, a woman would never give you the same satisfaction as accurate strategies, managing your kingdoms and fighting battles. VENI VIDI VICI
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game but why is a game from 2013 still $90AUD!?!? After 10 years a game shoouldn't be worth more than $20 max. Get it on a really big sale.
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 →This game doesn't work properly on Windows 11 and the developers don't care.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView 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!
neutral · AI labelView post →I genuinely don’t understand how this game continues to receive positive reviews when it fails to run properly on a modern PC. I couldn’t even complete the graphics test — the game simply would not run. After checking online, it’s clear this is not an isolated issue but a well-known and widely reported problem. What’s particularly frustrating is that this product is still being sold without addressing fundamental compatibility issues with modern systems like Windows 11. As a customer, I don’t…
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
neutral · 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
neutral · 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 →look, they just updated it again and its like 11 years old. at i am at 3292 hours. so yeah its great
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →No longer works. Crashes during loading battles every time and the devs haven't fixed it in a year.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →They seriously expect people to pay extra for gore animations and blood splatter textures. A thumbs-down so well deserved, I don't really know what to say.
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 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 →Rome II is peak Total War. The mix of huge battles, empire building and classic Roman chaos still hits perfectly even now. The game handles Roman history in a way that feels genuinely fun. The Marian Reforms shake up your armies, politics is always stirring trouble and the civil war hangs over the campaign like a storm you know is coming. For a video game, it handles units and historical shifts with surprising accuracy. Each faction feels distinct and the major moments of Roman history…
positive · 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 🙏
neutral · AI labelView post →I still remember when this game was announced all those years ago, I was so young, and I loved the total war franchise and you could imagine how excited I was for this game. I remember playing it around launch and experiencing some really crazy crashes and bugs, the experience was a bit disappointing and since launch I have played this game to limited capacity since. I will say, this game has come a long way in terms of performance I believe and some of the bug fixes and patch work has…
negative · 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
neutral · 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 →As a 27 year old overweight long haired neckbeard with crust forming under my fat flabs, this game was perfect for me. I believe I am not meant for this time era. Ill admit I watched my fair share of My Little Pony back in the days, moderated a few discords, and discussed politics on reddit. But that is what us medieval gamers are, higher beings, misunderstood, and chasing something that no longer exists for us in these times. Hopefully you'll understand someday. Till Valhalla, thank you Total…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've been playing this game steadily since 2013 (whew... time flies!) and, as a long-time TW fan whose first game was Rome: Total War, I love this game and it's possibly my favorite in the entire series. No I have not modded the ever-living sh** out of this game with major overhauls; it doesn't need it. The hatred and vitriol that Rome II suffered in its early years was one borne out of historical revisionism and blind nostalgia by members of the community who convinced themselves that R:TW,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →its good for people who enjoy the historical context like me, but compared to older total war games the gameplay is mediocre at best, especially in battles. Also why tf do i need to pay money to enable blood in battles??? I like this game alot but I cant recommend it next to some of the older games. It is still better than alot of newer total war games atleast
negative · 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 →Game is genuinely fun. But for some reason, half the time I load into a battle, I am stuck in an infinite loading screen and I can not figure out why it is happening. This issue alone has ruined my experience
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As my first Total War game, I initially thought Total War: Rome II was amazing. The more I played, though, the more I became frustrated with its systems. Flanking and outmaneuvering barely matter because stats are king most of the time. The political system is absolutely terrible — it feels less like a strategic mechanic and more like something designed purely to make the game less fun. Everything in the political system works against you. There is almost no point in maintaining armies or…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It is the best Total War game. Next game should inspire by it. I deleted pirate version to buy a legal one. Because in childhood i did not have money but I have been enjoying this game for 10 years.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Julius Caesar had to conquer Europe just to stop the Gauls sending letters asking for non-aggression pacts and 10k denarii
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 →The constant crashes make this game almost unplayable.. they always happen in the worst possible moments and its annoying af also some annoying bugs that were already in the game 10 years ago still havent been fixed, like the hud disappearing when you press esc to often and some other minor things i do enjoy playing this game but will definitely recommend against buying it
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I would say that this game is like paying a hobo and a female hockey player to tie you up, put a plastic bag over your head, and punch your balls until you come. Some people enjoy it, some people don't. I know I do.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I like anything related to Rome - listen to the History of Rome by Indonesian Youtubers Aurel Val and Ardhianzy, watch Gladiator, watch the Rome HBO series, read meditations book by Marcus Aurellius and of course play the Caesar in Gaul campaign. There are plenty of factions, quite a few campaigns (some in DLC), the political aspect is well developed, the buildings, units and political system are very different depending on the culture. In this game, there is the fact that when you take…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →source: Slingers are pretty goated in Total War Pharoah's early game
neutral · AI labelView post →
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