Total War: WARHAMMER II
Total War: WARHAMMER II
Game
Game2016
Total War: WARHAMMER
Developer CREATIVE ASSEMBLY, Feral Interactive (Linux), Feral Interactive (Mac)
Total War: Warhammer is a 2016 turn-based strategy and real-time tactics video game developed by Creative Assembly and published by Sega for Windows via the Steam gaming platform. The game was brought to macOS and Linux by Feral Interactive. The game features the gameplay of the Total War series with factions of Games Workshop's Warhammer Fantasy series; it is the first Total War game not to portray a historical… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
424 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
72
Fresh
152 positive · 60 negative
95% range 65–77%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 152 | 60 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 35 | 16 | 119 |
| Mastodon * | 5 | 0 | 33 |
| 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
23,203 of 28,494 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
76% recommend · 145 yes, 45 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 190 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mostly Positive (41,106 of 52,349 positive).
Players praise the game's atmosphere and faction variety, but note it shows its age. [1][2][3] Some reviewers find the game overshadowed by its sequels, especially Warhammer II. [4][5][6] A few players report technical issues like DLC bugs or server problems. [7][8][9]
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can't even play "my" game in single player because CA made some deal with epic games and now there's issues with servers or something idk. someone who bought this game should be able to play it regardless of what's happening on A DIFFERENT PLATFORM.
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I still prefer the darker art style and gameplay in this first warhammer game compared to the mess warhammer 3 has become.
- [2]
Total War: WARHAMMER is the first game in the series. Released in 2016, announced with a fantastic trailer and felt like a dream come true. After some time Chaos, one of the main races was behind a paywall. The outrage was a spectacle. And nothing happened. Everyone bought the game, and everyone still had fun. The good. The game is excellent at capturing the brutal, high-fantasy magic of this universe with a grit …
- [6]
Total War: Warhammer is a solid and enjoyable entry in the Total War series. It successfully translates the rich Warhammer Fantasy world into the grand strategy format, introducing fun races, iconic lords, and large-scale battles that feel distinct from the historical titles. However, its relevance has been almost completely overshadowed by its sequel. Total War: Warhammer II is such a comprehensive upgrade in …
- [3]
Total War: Warhammer is a great introduction to the Warhammer Fantasy world. The faction variety is excellent, and every campaign feels unique thanks to different mechanics and unit rosters. The battles are exciting, and the atmosphere is fantastic. However, the game definitely shows its age. Diplomacy is fairly basic, the AI can be inconsistent, and some quality-of-life features from the sequels are missing. Even …
Summarised from 34 of the 303 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 9, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
76% of the 190 Steam reviewers we collected recommend Total War: WARHAMMER. The complaint that keeps coming up: aged and lacks quality-of-life improvements. Deal-breaker or nitpick?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Total War: Warhammer had generally favourable reviews from critics. It has a score of 87/100 on Metacritic. IGN awarded it a score of 8.6 out of 10, saying: "Total War: Warhammer brims with exciting ideas, awesome characters, and delightful units and faction mechanics." GameSpot awarded it a score of 9.0 out of 10, saying: "It's a triumph of real-time strategy design, and the best the Total War series has ever been." PC Gamer awarded it a score of 86%, saying: "If you find real history a bit bland compared to glorious nonsense made up by strange British people then Warhammer is the Total War for you." Game Informer awarded it a score of 8.75 out of 10, saying: "the series has never felt so…
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 424 · 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 →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 →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."
negative · AI labelView 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 →can't even play "my" game in single player because CA made some deal with epic games and now there's issues with servers or something idk. someone who bought this game should be able to play it regardless of what's happening on A DIFFERENT PLATFORM.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Get this game on the current December sale - 75% off for 12.5 dollars. For future readers, get this game at max 20 dollars and only if you like the races. You will also get Total War Warhammer 3 big campaign map FREE with this purchase. This game is not worth more than 20 dollars. Only DLC that is rated Very Positive and above is worth getting at a max of 7 dollars. It is not worth getting anything for more unless you are truly in love with the complete package (like I was for chaos…
positive · 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 →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 →Total War 40K, also known as “How Mia is going to spend 1000 hours on one single video game again”
positive · AI labelView post →I got game played and buy dlcs ... after days of playing all my content was removed and cant get it back or my money use I play to long, they riped me off so if you want to pay for a game that will out of nowher disaper have fun ♥♥♥♥ STEAM.
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 →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 →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 →I loved Shogun 2. Planning, creating armies and tactical battles. This game is something else. Its extremely overcomplicated. Every aspect of the game become 4 times more complicated. You have 4 types of agents you must apply somewhere depending on their skills, you must take care of politics, assign lords to political ladder, and remember to do other million things. And them AI come and wipe your city because you must choose build walls or stables, and you needed stables. And yes, they…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I still prefer the darker art style and gameplay in this first warhammer game compared to the mess warhammer 3 has become.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is 10 years old and is still $60... Buy this on G2A don't give these greedy hogs any more feed.
negative · 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 →Our video review for Total War: Rome – The Board Game from PSC Games. theplayersaid.com/2025/10/31/v...
neutral · AI labelView post →7/10 Okay game, campaigns feel kinda empty, snowy maps you cant see anything. Overall if you enjoy total war I'd say total war warhammer 2 is the best out of all 3 games
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView 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 →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 →The warhammer series broke my love for total war games. This DLC microtransaction filled buggy poorly designed garbage ruined my opinion of the creative-assembly and I would recommend not buying any more of their games going forward. Total war shogun 2 was gold , but I dont see myself
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →All total war games are not playable without A LOT of mods. The AI just cheats and attacks you when you even start to send your army off to conquer anything. To win battles against the AI, it replenishes its armies in 1-2 turns and their stats in battles are just higher than yours. This just makes it so you have to know how each unit does vs each unit. It becomes a "have you played this game long enough to know all the match ups to win" check. Feels terrible. Then you need to buy each to get…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView 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.
negative · 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
positive · AI labelView post →#game event? Or just hanging out with The Guys? Can't be both??? #Shanghai #TotalWar #Warhammer40K
neutral · AI labelView post →I'd give the game a positive review without question, as soon as the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ DLC bug is fixed... Yesterday I happily led an Orc WAAAGH krumpin' dwarf ass, today the game complains it can't load my saves because missing all the DLCs. Reinstalled the game, the issue persists. Checked the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ DLCs in the shop, they are marked as already owned. Checked game integrity (or whatever that feature is for), looks fine. Out of ideas.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A new wiki for Warhammer 40,000 lore and media. Hey everyone, For the last few months a dedicated team of Lexicanum, Total War Wiki and other editors have been hard at work on a new wiki to cover both 40k lore and media, along with video games like Total War 40k, Dawn of War IV, etc. If you're not satisfied with the existing Lexicanum and Fandom wikis, we'd love to have you! We've got a much more modern, stable and easy to use website, along with open comments for each article among many…
neutral · AI labelView post →Shogun 2 is the game that taught me that I do not enjoy Total War games. However, it was also an incredibly beautiful creation, with so much thought given to its art, its UI, its painted-map aesthetics. To run that through the slop machine is a travesty.
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