Total War: PHARAOH
Total War: PHARAOH
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Total War: ROME REMASTERED
Developer Creative Assembly, Feral Interactive
Total War: ROME REMASTERED lets you relive the legacy that defined the award-winning strategy game series. Remastered to 4K with multiple improvements to visuals as well as refinements to gameplay, it’s time to revisit a true classic. Not everyone gets a second chance to conquer the Roman Empire. From the Steam store page
506 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
70
Fresh
207 positive · 89 negative
95% range 64–75%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 207 | 89 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 31 | 18 | 119 |
| 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
Mostly Positive
6,866 of 8,875 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
74% recommend · 189 yes, 67 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 256 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mostly Positive (10,684 of 13,856 positive).
Many players praise the remaster for preserving the classic feel while adding updated graphics and new features. [1][2][3] Some reviewers complain about a poor UI that is harder to use than the original. [4][5][6] A few players report technical issues like crashes, anti-cheat problems, and Windows 11 incompatibility. [7][8][9]
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Representative posts
- [8]
I love that you have to run an anti-cheat with this that ♥♥♥♥♥ up your game (usually locks your input) with no way of turning it off when you're playing A SINGLEPLAYER GAME!!! In order to fix it, you either have to set your system clock to 2020 or before or run a program to do that just for the game (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTr0O0zhxm4) to ♥♥♥♥ up the already ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up anti-cheat. (and yet it may or may not …
- [1]
As a fan of the original, i was hesitant to try this. But it does have much the same feel and charm as the original, along with updated graphics and new features. It was a great purchase, and has a great modding community.
- [17]
Rome Total War is a timeless strategy masterpiece that still stands above anything else ive experienced. It blends epic large scale battles with empire management. For me, this is the best game ive ever played. I have enjoyed it for over half of my life and I dont plan on stopping anytime soon. Few games create memories like this one, and for that reason this will be a game I always come back to.
- [14]
The remaster is nice, but it's not perfect. A lot of the problems come from it being a reskin of a 2004 game. So, you get new graphics mixed with old mechanics. Here's an example: enemies just stand there while your archers shoot all their arrows at them. They often leave themselves exposed or send their general on a crazy charge right into your spears. Diplomacy could really use an update too. Alliances mean …
- [2]
Great update to the old classic. Been playing since the original came out. Still a fun historical game. My son now plays.
Summarised from 34 of the 376 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: ROME REMASTERED sits at 70% positive across 296 opinionated reactions from 4 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
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60 of 506 · 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 →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 →I love that you have to run an anti-cheat with this that ♥♥♥♥♥ up your game (usually locks your input) with no way of turning it off when you're playing A SINGLEPLAYER GAME!!! In order to fix it, you either have to set your system clock to 2020 or before or run a program to do that just for the game (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTr0O0zhxm4) to ♥♥♥♥ up the already ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up anti-cheat. (and yet it may or may not work)
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView 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 →you are sacrificing an extra 40GB space and a lot of thematic details as well and an advisor VA just to be able to run the game at a decent framerate and resolution, while also having the worst UI imaginable
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Total War: Warhammer 40K announced, the next game in the series #TheGameAwards
neutral · AI labelView post →Of course, we must remaster games because it's free money. But is Rome Remastered actually any good? Not really. Rome Remastered represents an incredible opportunity to fix the problems which always plagued the original. But we find that nothing has been done. The unit control is the same. Pathfinding issues will persist. Larger unit sizes are much more immersive and fun to play with on the field, but you'll want to end it all when you take them to sieges. I love waiting thirty minutes for…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game does not work with Windows 11 even though it only came out 5 months before it was Windows 11 was released.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pretty much the same game as the original, with updated graphics but downgraded UI. However, they completely missed the mark on the single-most important issue that caused all of us Roman Emperors, to stop playing that game each time after a while: Squalor!! The (not so) good ol' days, where you had to abandon your own hard-fought settlements just to re-invade them to quelch the unrest, are still very much alive. And as I used to do about 20 years ago, I have now yet again uninstalled this…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Inferior to the original version in my opinion. UI is horrendous by comparison and the map has been updated to look very cartoony.
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
negative · 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 →I played the Original for more than 15 years, and in this new one the interface is honestly ♥♥♥♥. The menus and everything. The army recruitment is so small my glasses need glasses. No I couldn't get 1 hour of gameplay, going back to the original.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Don't fix it if it ain't broken. The UI changes just make no sense managing settlements and army's takes a few extra click every time compared to the original game. The AI has defently been improved a little but I can't bring my self to play this when I can just play the original or medieval II. Over all the game is fine its Rome but the UI is just a absolute letdown. Would recommend to skip this one.
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!
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 →Pointless remake. The things that could have been improved are ignored, and the things that are 'improved' are somehow made worse. The graphics look like a cartoon filter or some kind of whiteboard program you would have seen in school. The UI was fine before. Why would I want to see my spies every time I click on a city? I'm there to build and recruit, not check on the counterspy I put there 50 turns ago. He's doing fine. He knows his way around the place. For some reason, a horse that was…
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 really can't recommend this version of Rome. The Pros: - The new units details is a decent addition - The ability to play night battles has been added to the main game and not just the expansion - Higher resolution - Modern battlefield controls from CA's recent games - Steam Workshop The Cons: - The entire game feels like like it was made for an Ipad (Which it probably is) - The campaign map is very cartoony and looks worse than the original that's almost 20 years old - The UI is…
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 →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 →Awful , worse than the original!! which was great. its just a cash in without fixing problems typical of creative assembly under sega sadly.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView 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 →The question rises: who asked for this overpriced cash grab? It’s a barely functional coat of paint over a 20-year-old game. While the original's core strategic brilliance is still faintly visible, the remaster manages to smother it with poor design choices. The new UI is an atrocious, clunky mess that is somehow less intuitive than the original's 2004 interface, making the management of provinces a chore rather than a pleasure. Of course, the infamous unit pathfinding issues are still present,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView 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 →REX has shown what a gem R:TW is and it's infinitely better than what Feral has managed to cobble together. And REX is a mod, not even any official support. The UI alone is enough to make me want to throw myself into a hot furnace. Genuinely the worst UI of any game I have ever played. There are other issues but the UI is the biggest. Should have just kept the original and just upscaled it. Don't buy this, play the original with REX, it's better.
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”
positive · AI labelView post →In game Wiki and additional information tab is completely broken and bugged. They are not fixing it and its been broken for years, completely immersion breaking and a clear lack of intelligence and effort on the devs part. Imagine releasing a remaster that is worse than the original. Find a key for the original Rome Totalwar, avoid this one like the diseased mess it is. Its been abandoned, no more fixes coming, just another company handing a beloved IP over to a third company to put in minimum…
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!
positive · 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 ui is so bad, even at 120% scaled feel like i need prescription glasses and if i could see it, still looks terrible and confusing original was intuitive and pleasing this is a mess
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A UI so bad it needs a remaster of the remaster already. Controls that glitch out , UI resolution issue and an AI worse than GROK. I had rose tinted glasses on this one.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really can't recommend this game when so many other Total War Titles are available. I get that this is an old game remastered, I bought it for that reason. But revisiting it later, I can see why I never stuck with it. Diplomacy means nothing in this game: the AI will literally offer alliances, trade, map information, etc. They will even ask for you to become their protectorate, only to immediate attack you within the same turn with a doomstack they seemingly spawned out of nowhere. I spent…
negative · 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 →The UI and stylistic choices made here were atrocious. R:TW holds up really well for being over 20 years old, my mistake for thinking it needed a remaster.
negative · 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 →As a fan of the original, i was hesitant to try this. But it does have much the same feel and charm as the original, along with updated graphics and new features. It was a great purchase, and has a great modding community.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →the classic game-my only complaint is the small lettering and font on information panels. sometimes can barely read or feel like I need a magnifying glass. there needs to be an option to increase size of letters numbers and words to make more readable.
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...
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