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Total War: NAPOLEON – Definitive Edition
Complete your Total War collection with this Definitive Edition of Total War: NAPOLEON, which includes all DLC and feature updates since the game’s release
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
22 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“The Definite Napoleonic War Experience, Also use Mods for more fun.”
“Look, the Russian winter attrition mechanic is total unbalanced ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, and Wellington is a massive camper who just spams infantry squares on hills with zero skill. Not to mention my support player, Grouchy, went…”
“Total war has rightfully represented my favourite historical period with cinematic land and naval battles while still retaining the complex strategy the series is known for and multiplayer although small is still a…”
6 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“great game very replayable if you like empire building, lots of mods out there for it, shame the developers didn't add more playable factions but I guess that's what the mods do”
“Favorite game of all time. The mods make it great.”
“great game if you have mods”
5 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“I have played Napoleon Total War for about 6 years now and it never disappoints. I try other strategy games but I keep coming back to this one.”
“The Total War I keep coming back to, after playing most of them. Total War is best when it's very focused (also see Shogun 2 and Fall of the Samurai, two other great focused Total War games), and this is probably the…”
“great game very replayable if you like empire building, lots of mods out there for it, shame the developers didn't add more playable factions but I guess that's what the mods do”
4 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“My personal favorite total war game, the mechanics of this game were amazing and playing as Prussia and Britain have been the best experience of any RTS game. The Egyptian campaign has been the hardest part, but also…”
“one of the best Total war games if your new. Tutorials are very helpful and gameplay is super fun. It crashes every now and then but thats because its a 10 yro game and built for older computers.”
“Fun. Easy. Comfort replay.”
3 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“Total war has rightfully represented my favourite historical period with cinematic land and naval battles while still retaining the complex strategy the series is known for and multiplayer although small is still a…”
“This game is absolute peak of history games.. nothing to add, even the multiplayer is so fun. Would do more animations and maybe better graphics but for an old game this is very very good.”
11 of the 103 reviews raise this · 6 of them still recommend the game.
“Napoleon was a skillless ♥♥♥ and thus a game built around his character can't be good. This is basically a less ambitious version of Empire: Total War including less playable factions, less units, less buildings - name…”
“i was expecting 5,000-on-5,000 battles but not. artillery, infantry types horrible missing. there only two type artillery in the game. in practice only 2-3 infantry are used. where trombon, health, military engineer…”
“Absolute garbage. Borodino sucks balls. ♥♥♥♥ whoever made that battle.”
9 of the 103 reviews raise this · 7 of them still recommend the game.
“Napoleon was a skillless ♥♥♥ and thus a game built around his character can't be good. This is basically a less ambitious version of Empire: Total War including less playable factions, less units, less buildings - name…”
“Napoleon is what Empire wishes it was. Sadly this game is more of a DLC and less of an actual game. As far as DLC go this is the best in the TW series IMO. However as a full fledged RTS this is a very lacking game.”
“One of the all time classic TW games. Shame it was limited to just Europe.”
4 of the 103 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
“Napoleon was a skillless ♥♥♥ and thus a game built around his character can't be good. This is basically a less ambitious version of Empire: Total War including less playable factions, less units, less buildings - name…”
“This game is absolute peak of history games.. nothing to add, even the multiplayer is so fun. Would do more animations and maybe better graphics but for an old game this is very very good.”
“good game graphics are a bit old but it makes up for it in the Gameplay”
4 of the 103 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“one of the best Total war games if your new. Tutorials are very helpful and gameplay is super fun. It crashes every now and then but thats because its a 10 yro game and built for older computers.”
“PEAK GAME, until it started to crash uncontrollably after the first gameplay. Yet, it is 100% worth it to try and play the campaign game mode.”
“When it works!!!”
3 of the 103 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“Total war has rightfully represented my favourite historical period with cinematic land and naval battles while still retaining the complex strategy the series is known for and multiplayer although small is still a…”
Counted across 103 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 91.4% positive rating · as of 2026-05-20
“Game is still very much alive and has an active mod community even in 2026. If you're a serious Napoleonic history buff, I'd suggest installing NTW3 or another overhaul mod. The base game offers very little in terms of replay ability, besides the Europe campaign. Hopefully we'll…”
— a player, Steam review · 838 hrs played“Still playing in 2026 with mods. If you are a fan of Napoleonic warfare, then this game is for you. It has improved gameplay compared to Empire: TW but is much smaller in scale. The modding community have continued to improve the base game. I hope we someday get a newer version…”
— a player, Steam review · 581 hrs played“Napoleon Total War, my first ever addition of the total war series. I had watched Pixelated Apollo play the game for so long as a child and eventually managed to discover it on steam and buy the game. There is most definitely a learning curve to understanding Total War games but…”
— a player, Steam review · 335 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-11 11:45 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
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Screenshots
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Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Strategy |
| Player tags | Strategy · Historical · Grand Strategy · War · Turn-Based Strategy · RTS · Multiplayer · Tactical · Military · Singleplayer · Real Time Tactics · Turn-Based (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Trading Cards · Camera Comfort · Custom Volume Controls · Adjustable Difficulty · Playable without Timed Input |
| Languages | Czech, English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Russian, Spanish - Spain |
| Achievements | 71 |
| Estimated owners | 1,000,000 – 2,000,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | http://store.steampowered.com/app/901162/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Microsoft® Windows Vista®/XP®/Windows® 7 Processor: 2.3 GHz CPU with SSE2 Memory: 1 GB RAM (XP), 2 GB RAM (Vista®/Windows® 7) Graphics: 256 MB DirectX® 9.0c shader model 2b compatible GPU DirectX®: DirectX® 9.0c Hard Drive: 21 GB free space Microsoft no longer supports Windows 10 or older versions.