Best entry in the Warhammer trilogy
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“Improved on the excellent first in the series in every way, and honestly is just more fun than the 3rd.”
Steam review · 480.2 h played ↗
Total War: WARHAMMER II
Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.
Very Positive · 93%Very Positive · 93%CREATIVE ASSEMBLY, Feral Interactive (Mac), Feral Interactive (Linux)2017Turn-Based Strategy · RTS · Strategy
The verdict
A huge, replayable fantasy Total War with varied factions and spectacular battles, but heavily DLC-gated and plagued by DLC/save-loss bugs. Skip if you hate DLC costs or AI quirks.
Great for
Warhammer fans who want faction variety, big fantasy battles and hundreds of hours of campaigns, ideally bought on sale
Main risk
Key factions and the main campaign are locked behind expensive DLC and the first game
What changed in the last 30 days
26 recent reviews
Recent negative reviews complain about AI doomstacks, broken siege AI and distrust of the developer. Few recent reviews, so low confidence about the exact cause.
26 recent reviews
What players love
Huge faction variety and replayability
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 positive reviews
“it's hard to play another total war game because of how massive the content is, so many races, so many different units between those races, the replayability is almost infinite...”
Steam review · 698.3 h played ↗
Epic, spectacular battles
Mentioned in ~1 in 10 positive reviews
“feel the rush of the cavalry crash, explode devastating magickal explosions in the heart of enemy regiments!”
Steam review · 423.9 h played ↗
Great campaigns and Vortex story
Mentioned in ~1 in 10 positive reviews
“The Vortex Campaign is also a great time, I wish Creative Assembly would make more of this sort of scripted and/or quest oriented campaigns.”
Steam review · 109.8 h played ↗
Runs well and has great mods
Mentioned in ~1 in 12 positive reviews
“as someone whose PC can't run Total War Warhammer 3 but can run this one well and smooth”
Steam review · 324.3 h played ↗
Addictive one-more-turn loop
Mentioned in ~1 in 38 positive reviews
“You will constantly be like oh damn its 4am, just one more turn and then never actually sleep.”
Steam review · 82.4 h played ↗
What players complain about
Expensive DLC locks core content
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews
“lets give the customer 2 lords from each race and then over the next few years charge them 30$ for each additional lord turning a 59.99 game into a 200$+ game.”
Steam review · 24.9 h played ↗
Cheating, broken AI and poor balance
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“The AI just cheats and attacks you when you even start to send your army off to conquer anything.”
Steam review · 51.9 h played ↗
DLC unrecognized and saves wiped
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 negative reviews
“after 1600 hours the game uninstalled all my dlc and I lost all my saved games. No reason why.”
Steam review · 1609.2 h played ↗
Crashes, bugs and slow loading
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews
“Win crash. About 5 hours spent on this battle.”
Steam review · 306.6 h played ↗
Mortal Empires requires owning Warhammer 1
Mentioned in ~1 in 11 negative reviews
“You need to have Total War Warhammer 1 to be able to play Mortal Empires.”
Steam review · 6.5 h played ↗
Steep learning curve and poor tutorial
Mentioned in ~1 in 21 negative reviews
“I don't think I've ever seen a strategy game with this steep a learning curve.”
Steam review · 9.7 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: Playable60 GB
Minimum
OSWindows 7 64Bit
ProcessorIntel® Core™ 2 Duo 3.0Ghz
Memory5 GB RAM
GraphicsNVIDIA GTX 460 1GB | AMD Radeon HD 5770 1GB | Intel HD4000 @720p
Storage60 GB available space
Recommended
OSWindows 7 / 8 (8.1)/ 10 64Bit
ProcessorIntel® Core™ i5-4570 3.20GHz
Memory8 GB RAM
GraphicsNVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 4GB | AMD Radeon R9 290X 4GB @1080p
Storage60 GB available space
OSWindows 7 64Bit
ProcessorIntel® Core™ 2 Duo 3.0Ghz
Memory5 GB RAM
GraphicsNVIDIA GTX 460 1GB | AMD Radeon HD 5770 1GB | Intel HD4000 @720p
Storage60 GB available space
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