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Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition
Command the seas, control the land, forge a new nation, and conquer the globe.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
What reviewers agree on
32 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“Overall a good game. I like strategy games and this one is one of the best that I have played. Update: The game started to crash whenever I clicked on one providence. No solution listed online solved this problem.”
“fun game to play around and build and create your world”
“one of the best Total War games, beautiful naval battles, fun original flintlock gameplay, kill them redcoats!!”
9 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“This is a cool game, I enjoy the numerous factions that you can play with and the modding from ModDb as well. It is an old game but still a blast from the past.”
“Absolutely amazing game, even after so much years its one of the best games about gunpowder era, and another big plus, is the amount of fantastic mods that improve the game so much more, worth every cent !”
“While this is not the most refined total war game in the series it is by far my number 1 pick. The battles are rewarding and the nations offer different game play styles and more replayability. It will crash and does…”
5 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“one of the best Total War games, beautiful naval battles, fun original flintlock gameplay, kill them redcoats!!”
“this game looks better and plus with mods its enjoyable to play and conquer the whole world and the confederates!”
“I think one of the best 18th century military historic games would probably be Total war:Empire because it just captures what weapons and uniforms they would've use back then,”
3 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“Absolutely amazing game, even after so much years its one of the best games about gunpowder era, and another big plus, is the amount of fantastic mods that improve the game so much more, worth every cent !”
“this kid-throwing emulator is worth it”
13 of the 104 reviews raise this · 7 of them still recommend the game.
“I love the era in which this game is set. There are some fun, innovative ideas , and it's generally a pleasant experience to manage and advance your faction towards a continent-spanning empire. However, it has the worst…”
“Although I've enjoyed my playthrough, and you might too, there are too many issues for me to recommend this without reservation. This game purports to be about Empire in the 18th Century, but it's almost entirely free…”
“This game is awesome in so many ways, but there are too many issues to recommend it to others. I have never played a game that crashes more than this one. The "AI" is clunky and performs very poorly compared to other…”
12 of the 104 reviews raise this · 6 of them still recommend the game.
“This game is awesome in so many ways, but there are too many issues to recommend it to others. I have never played a game that crashes more than this one. The "AI" is clunky and performs very poorly compared to other…”
“I've really enjoyed the game as you can see by my play time. However, the game really is broken. I've uninstalled this game several times out of frustration as my save file becomes corrupted in the mid-to late game.…”
“I am so sick, after almost 20 years - TWENTY YEARS - of playing this game, to have crashes that cannot be recovered after 2-3 days or multiple many hours played on any different civilization - seriously, this has been…”
3 of the 104 reviews raise this · 1 of them still recommend the game.
“I love the era in which this game is set. There are some fun, innovative ideas , and it's generally a pleasant experience to manage and advance your faction towards a continent-spanning empire. However, it has the worst…”
“I am so sick, after almost 20 years - TWENTY YEARS - of playing this game, to have crashes that cannot be recovered after 2-3 days or multiple many hours played on any different civilization - seriously, this has been…”
Counted across 104 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 90.8% positive rating · as of 2026-05-20
“By far still the best and most easily replayable of the Total War series. Here we are 16 year later and I'm still enjoying the replayability.”
— a player, Steam review · 934 hrs played“Friend bought me this and I had never played a total war game before. I was immediately hooked, the gameplay loop and managing your resources trying to win out over the AI is very satisfying. The battles are impressive considering the age of the engine that was used for the…”
— a player, Steam review · 141 hrs played“Could not miss the opportunity to post with 1776 hours played!”
— a player, Steam review · 1,809 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-11 11:41 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Strategy |
| Player tags | Strategy · Historical · Military · Grand Strategy · Turn-Based Strategy · War · Tactical · RTS · Multiplayer · Singleplayer · Turn-Based · Naval (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · PvP · Online PvP · LAN PvP · Co-op · Online Co-op · LAN Co-op |
| Languages | English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Polish, Czech |
| Achievements | 30 |
| Estimated owners | 1,000,000 – 2,000,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | http://www.totalwar.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Supported OS: Windows® XP Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista™ Processor: 2.4 GHz Intel® Pentium® or greater or AMD® Athlon® equivalent CPU Memory: 1 GB RAM (XP,) 2 GB RAM (Vista™) Graphics: 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible hardware accelerated video card with shader version 2.0 support, 256 MB video memory Display: Minimum screen resolution of 1280 x 1024 pixels Sound: Directx9.0c compatible sound card Hard Drive: 15 GB free hard disk space formatted as NTFS Peripherals: Windows compatible mouse and keyboard Microsoft no longer supports Windows 10 or older versions.