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2009 PC 19.99 € 👍 91 % Very positive, 35,480 reviews on Steam Steam Deck playable

An 18th-century grand strategy game: manage your empire on a turn-based campaign map, then fight real-time land battles and the series' first fully 3D naval battles with sailing ships and musket lines.

What defines Empire: Total War:

  • Tactical depth
  • Turn-based combat
  • Challenging difficulty
  • Lavish presentation

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Napoleon: Total War

97 %

2010 PC 19.99 € 👍 91 % Very positive, 25,365 reviews on Steam

  • Tactical depth
  • Turn-based combat
  • Realistic visuals

Napoleon: Total War combines a turn-based campaign map with huge real-time battles of the Napoleonic era. You lead campaigns from Italy to Waterloo or oppose him, winning wars through strategy and battlefield command.

Total War: Rome II

Lavish presentation

Combines a turn-based campaign map where you manage an ancient empire with huge real-time battles in which you tactically command entire armies. Diplomacy, economy and generalship all feed into one another.

Medieval: Total War

Tactical depth

Combines a turn-based campaign map with huge real-time battles across medieval Europe. Diplomacy, trade, espionage and religion shape your dynasty's rise over four centuries.

Rome: Total War

Tactical depth

A landmark strategy game that pairs turn-based empire management on a campaign map with massive real-time battles involving thousands of soldiers. Lead a Roman family or a rival power as you manage provinces, forge alliances and command legions in the field.

Total War: Shogun 2

Lavish presentation

Combines a turn-based campaign map with huge real-time battles in Sengoku-era Japan. Diplomacy, intrigue, province building and agents like ninjas give strategic depth both on the map and on the battlefield.

A Total War Saga: Troy

Lavish presentation

A Total War spin-off set in the Bronze Age Trojan War. You manage your realm on a turn-based campaign map and lead legendary heroes like Achilles or Hector into large real-time battles.

Total War: Attila

Tactical depth

A turn-based campaign map combined with massive real-time battles in Late Antiquity: you guide a people through Rome's fall, Hunnic invasion, plague and climate collapse. Managing economy, politics and armies to survive is a stern challenge.

Sid Meier's Civilization V

Gameplay comes before story

The classic 4X strategy game: you guide a civilization across millennia, from its first settlement to the space age. Hex-based combat, city-states and multiple paths to victory create the famous "one more turn" pull.

Medieval II: Total War

Tactical depth

A turn-based grand campaign of diplomacy, city building and dynastic scheming across medieval Europe and the Middle East, paired with massive real-time battles involving thousands of troops. A landmark entry in the Total War series for anyone who wants to rewrite medieval history.

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