Total War: ATTILA

Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.

Very Positive · 82%Very Positive · 82%2015

The verdict

A brutal, atmospheric survival take on Rome's collapse with strong battles and superb mods, but badly optimized on modern PCs. Skip it if you want easy conquest or a stable experience.

Great for

Veteran Total War fans who like punishing survival campaigns, late-antiquity history and total-conversion mods

Main risk

Severe lag, freezes and crashes on modern hardware that community fixes only partly solve

What players love

Excellent mods like Dawnless Days and 1212 AD

Mentioned in ~2 in 5 positive reviews

“Tons of great mods available that each turn it into a whole new game.”
Steam review · 195.6 h played ↗

“only playing the dawnless days mod for this which turns it into lord of the rings total war. worth it even if you never play the base game”
Steam review · 192.9 h played ↗

“Total War: Attila combined with the 1212 AD Mod is arguably the ultimate experience you can get today.”
Steam review · 651.3 h played ↗

Challenging survival campaign

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews

“your goal is less about conquering and more about sheer survival as the world around you goes to hell in a hand basket.”
Steam review · 127.5 h played ↗

“The Dark Souls of the Total War series... This game is very brutal and unforgiving then the rest of the series.”
Steam review · 20.8 h played ↗

Dark apocalyptic atmosphere

Mentioned in ~1 in 6 positive reviews

“Attila makes collapse feel inevitable, and that completely changes the psychology of how you play.”
Steam review · 204.8 h played ↗

“Really love the setting and the apocalyptic atmosphere.”
Steam review · 492.5 h played ↗

“the end-of-the-world atmosphere is one of the best in the series”
Steam review · translated · 4.8 h played ↗

Deep mechanics and varied factions

Mentioned in ~1 in 9 positive reviews

“The game engages the player to the limit, making almost all aspects of the game relevant”
Steam review · 153.4 h played ↗

“Love the nomad mechanics of the game.”
Steam review · 935.8 h played ↗

Great soundtrack and visuals

Mentioned in ~1 in 17 positive reviews

“the soundtrack is the best in the entire series”
Steam review · 365.7 h played ↗

Great tactical battles

Mentioned in ~1 in 25 positive reviews

“Easily the best battles in the series.”
Steam review · 86.8 h played ↗

“the battles are intense and feel to carry weight with them.”
Steam review · 350.2 h played ↗

What players complain about

Terrible optimization on modern PCs

Mentioned in ~1 in 2 negative reviews

“if you're on a PC that is even remotely new (bought within the last 7 years) you cannot play this game without having to lock your CPU to a single core.”
Steam review · 497.2 h played ↗

“I have an extremely high performance rig. RTX 4090 + 32 core CPU.”
Steam review · 127.5 h played ↗

“I can't even sit in the menu, it freezes for 1-2 seconds every couple of seconds”
Steam review · translated · 0.2 h played ↗

Frequent crashes and corrupted saves

Mentioned in ~1 in 6 negative reviews

“its hard to play this game with all the game crashing bugs.”
Steam review · 89.3 h played ↗

“I find it unacceptable how ofter it crashes, it corrupt saves, it becomes quickly unplayable.”
Steam review · 70.2 h played ↗

Unfair AI and overpowered Huns

Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews

“In my campaign I destroyed multiple Hun armies in a single turn.”
Steam review · 177.1 h played ↗

“AI is overwhelmingly overpowered just to stress u out.”
Steam review · 411.3 h played ↗

Abandoned by developers, still buggy

Mentioned in ~1 in 9 negative reviews

“an opaque and buggy game that was abandoned shortly after development with glaring issues that modders had to try and fix.”
Steam review · 184.2 h played ↗

Annoying campaign mechanics

Mentioned in ~1 in 12 negative reviews

“The campaign has so many annoying mechanics, the seasonal penalties make half of the turns a waiting game.”
Steam review · 16.1 h played ↗

“The game punishes rapid expansion as you cannot maintain multiple territories while ensuring enough food and happiness.”
Steam review · 59.3 h played ↗

Poor, unclear UI and color palette

Mentioned in ~1 in 17 negative reviews

“it does not feature a UI scaling option, so things like text are unreadable at high resolutions.”
Steam review · 23.1 h played ↗

“The game is hard to read because of the color palette, making it difficult to distinguish units on the map.”
Steam review · 8.9 h played ↗

System requirements

From the Steam store page

Steam Deck: Playable

Minimum

OSWindows Vista*

ProcessorIntel Core 2 Duo 3 GHz

Memory3 GB RAM

Graphics512 MB NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT, AMD Radeon HD 2900 XT or Intel HD 4000

Storage35 GB available space

Recommended

OSWindows 7*

Processor2nd Generation Intel Core i5

Memory4 GB RAM

Graphics2 GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti or AMD Radeon HD 5870

Storage35 GB available space

OSWindows Vista*

ProcessorIntel Core 2 Duo 3 GHz

Memory3 GB RAM

Graphics512 MB NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT, AMD Radeon HD 2900 XT or Intel HD 4000

Storage35 GB available space

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