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Total War: THREE KINGDOMS
Developer CREATIVE ASSEMBLY, Feral Interactive (Mac), Feral Interactive (Linux)
Total War: Three Kingdoms is a turn-based strategy real-time tactics video game developed by Creative Assembly and published by Sega. As the 12th mainline entry (the 13th entry) in the Total War series, the game was released for Windows on May 23, 2019. Feral Interactive released a Linux and macOS version of the game on the same day. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
510 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
71
Fresh
212 positive · 88 negative
95% range 65–76%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 212 | 88 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 23 | 10 | 135 |
| Mastodon * | 2 | 1 | 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
19,604 of 23,301 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
72% recommend · 179 yes, 71 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 250 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (77,220 of 93,914 positive).
Players praise the game's deep diplomacy, character relationships, and campaign mechanics. [1][2][3] Some reviewers criticize Creative Assembly for abandoning the game and leaving bugs unresolved. [4][5][6] A few players report technical issues like crashes and DLC access problems. [7][8]
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Representative posts
- [4]
The gameplay itself is wonderful. What ultimately did it in was the decision to cease implementation of DLC before the game got to the Three Kingdoms proper. The game begins with the events that paved the way for the end of the Han Empire. However, instead of getting to the time where the Three Kingdoms: Cao Wei, Shu Han, and Dong Wu were established they release DLC that skips almost 100 years into the future which …
- [1]
Total War: Three Kingdoms is one of the best Total War games I’ve played. The setting is awesome, the characters actually feel important, and the diplomacy system is way better than in a lot of older Total War titles. Every campaign feels like you’re building your own story, whether you’re uniting China through war, alliances, betrayal, or careful politics. The battles are fun, the campaign map is beautiful, and the …
- [3]
Three Kingdoms has, in my opinion, the best campaign mechanics in the Total War series. Diplomacy actually matters. Characters have personalities, relationships influence politics, and building an empire feels just as important as winning battles. Every campaign creates memorable stories rather than simply painting the map your color. The downside is that campaigns can become very long, especially once you've …
- [2]
My favorite Total War, the best in my opinion and has the most complete experience from beginning to end. The main base campaign has everything you want from a strategy game. Interesting choices, robust economy and civil management, multiple viable strategies, great battles and the best diplomacy in the total war franchise period. Moreover the campaign's arc is always able to hit the right note from the beginning …
- [9]
Best Total War of all time ngl. It has the most in depth diplomacy, most diverse battle maps, best sieges and most interesting characters. 9/10 for sure.
Summarised from 34 of the 371 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: THREE KINGDOMS sits at 71% positive across 300 opinionated reactions from 4 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Total War: Three Kingdoms received positive reviews from critics, with many specifically praising the character-driven gameplay mechanics and storytelling elements. Chris Wray of wccftech describes the game is "as close to flawless, with a fantastic balance of 4X strategy and character-focused development and emergent storytelling." IGN's TJ Hafer stated that Three Kingdoms should serve as the example for all games of its genre going forward. Edwin Evans-Thirlwell of The Guardian stated the game "...is a wonderfully torrid period epic that understands the greatest stories are written about people, not empires." Jody Macgregor of PC Gamer praised the campaign elements, but found the game…
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Reactions
60 of 510 · 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
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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 →The gameplay itself is wonderful. What ultimately did it in was the decision to cease implementation of DLC before the game got to the Three Kingdoms proper. The game begins with the events that paved the way for the end of the Han Empire. However, instead of getting to the time where the Three Kingdoms: Cao Wei, Shu Han, and Dong Wu were established they release DLC that skips almost 100 years into the future which the Jin Empire is established; this dynasty was established after the Three…
negative · 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 →In short, look at how Creative Assembly massacred a really good game by ditching for other titles instead of fixing games with issues years old, really adding up it reputation of only creating games instead of fixing stuff. What pisses me off more is they churn out stuff instead of making games playable long term and think we will just buy half baked, unfinished dlc. I loved this game but can only play it offline as dlc THAT I BOUGHT!! doesn't work anymore, much like a bad relationship I'm…
negative · 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 →I was having a lot of fun then suddenly I cant access my dlcs midway through campaign so ♥♥♥♥ this and entirety of CA with it. EDIT : now it loads dlcs after 2-3 minute staredown but I can no longer get into game for it is stuck at black screen after campaign cinematic. -_- EDIT NUMERO 2 IT APPEARS TO BE BACK IN WORKING ORDER! However my campaign is still ♥♥♥♥♥♥ so you still get thumbs down for emotional dmg caused.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView 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 →Tragic waste of potential betrayed by corporate greed once again. Not to say vanilla game itself is unplayable, but it isn't the same as other older TW titles which continually received support regardless of bad sales prior. Plenty of bugs remain unresolved since launch, AI is actually incompetent in both campaign and battles, and performance really starts to grind down as you get into late game. Cannot recommend at its full price; can consider if it's on sale. Mods and community bug fixes is…
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
positive · AI labelView post →Good work CA. You abandoned this game and now you released an update that makes the game unplayable Congratulations
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →OPPORTUNITY! - Writer - Total War - UK, or Bulgaria Not affiliated. Shares welcome! gamejobs.co/Game-Writer-...
neutral · AI labelView post →I want to apologize to the publisher and developer because I played this pirated game for about 300+ hours from 3 years ago, now I have money and bought this game with full DLC. Thanks pal.
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 →Creative Assembly failed to over monetize this game with 50 DLCs totaling hundreds of dollars like it does WarHammer so this game never even got to the three kingdoms era it is literally named after. CA has long since lost its way, this game isnt half of what it could or should be. Massive disappointment
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 →Great game. However, how are you going to call this three kingdoms and only support two people in an online campaign.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →47.5 hours later and I can confidently say: I hvae NO idea whaat I was doing at first 10... But somehow ended up conquering half of China anyway. Total War: Three Kingdoms is one of those games that throws you into chaos and just watches you panic. At the start, I was clicking buttons like a lost general who forgot his own battle plan. Diplomacy? Confusing. Economy? Questionable. Army management? Vibes. But somewhere along the way. it clicked. Suddenly I'm negotiation like a politician,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView 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 →Yall ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ suck. Literally one of the best games i have ever played and it has been abandoned for years. Now this useless update that will probably break MODS built specifically because you have abandoned TK.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"any princeling born after the fourth year of Jian'an can't rule... all they know is tea house, charge they troops, sword dance, be with concubine and male companion, eat hot pork & lie" -Kong Rong, Han dynasty poet and descendent of Confucius, 208 AD 10/10 truly an amazing game
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 →I really wanna leave a positive review, but the game crashes non stop.
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 →Can't get cursors to show up on Linux via Steam Play. Not really CA's problem but I wouldn't suggest this for Linux users with NVIDIA cards. If it gets fixed or I find a workaround I'll update this.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Got a refund. Game was crashing repeatedly in the first 10 turns or at battle start or finish.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →While this is an outstanding Total War title concerning the campaign mechanics, i cannot recommend it to my fellow widescreen players. On 3440x1440 the UI is brutally small. I want to relax with a game like this not strain my eyes. Its really ipsidipsiesmall. The UI slider is locked at 130% and you cannot increase it, because the game detects no true 4k and thus locks you from reaching the potential 200%. Frustrating as hell. After hours of search, i finally found a workaround by upscaling my…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Total War: Three Kingdoms is one of the best Total War games I’ve played. The setting is awesome, the characters actually feel important, and the diplomacy system is way better than in a lot of older Total War titles. Every campaign feels like you’re building your own story, whether you’re uniting China through war, alliances, betrayal, or careful politics. The battles are fun, the campaign map is beautiful, and the faction leaders all have enough personality to make replaying worth it. I…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →best total war game together with shogun 2 and medieval 2. Vanilla is far better than both, modded with TROM + tup its better than vanilla but it cant be compared to the overhauls changes of Master of strategy from shogun 2 and SSHIP from medieval 2. I haven't found the diplomacy that amazing as many have said, but its still miles better than other total wars. The battles feel abit weird ala warhammer, cavalry while good lacks the impact that it has in older games, archers are busted asf…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Started my first campaign, got to around turn 90 The game consistently crashes during an AI player turn; nothing I do seems to change that, so my campaign is now locked. Multiple players seem to have reported this, but there is no official solution. EDIT: I managed to finish a campaign, but the game still crashed quite frequently. Overall, I found it less enjoyable than other TW installments; The reforms (3Kingdoms research tree) feel quite slow, and because they are locked to a 5 turn…
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 →I'm not recommending against this game because its bad. I quite like the game. However, you shouldnt spend money on this game. It's unfinished and abandoned. I mean literally unfinished too. Only two of the three "Three Kingdoms" got their mechanics expanded before CA abandoned development, which is a shame because TK is my favorite TW game. The diplomacy is is very well done, armies feel satisfying to build and command, and the commandery system is pretty good as well. If you can get this…
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 →It's truly a shame this iteration of Total War's historical series got dropped and abandoned. It's set in a great era of Chinese history with good a diplomacy system, dope soundtrack and awesome visuals. Mods are the main reason i still play it. Shoutout to all the modders! I truly appreciate you guys! I recommend getting this and all its dlc on sale if you love war games, whether its because it's based in the Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history, are looking for a good historical total war…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My favorite Total War, the best in my opinion and has the most complete experience from beginning to end. The main base campaign has everything you want from a strategy game. Interesting choices, robust economy and civil management, multiple viable strategies, great battles and the best diplomacy in the total war franchise period. Moreover the campaign's arc is always able to hit the right note from the beginning with everyone starting out to the climax as the game consolidates to the titular…
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