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Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition cover art

Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition

CREATIVE ASSEMBLY · SEGA · 2006-11-15

Steam

Strategy

Franchise: Total War · Modes: Single player, Multiplayer · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric, Text

Releases: Apr 05, 2007 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jan 14, 2016 (Mac), Jan 14, 2016 (Linux)

Spanning the most turbulent era in Western history, your quest for territory and power takes you through Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and even onto the shores of the New World.

Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition is a Strategy game priced at $4.99, released in 2006, with an estimated 1,000,000 .. 2,000,000 owners and Overwhelmingly Positive (96% of 36415 reviews) sentiment.

2,217
playing now
96%
positive of 37k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
1,000,000–2,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
1
twitch viewers (latest)
1.0
viewers/channel (concentration)
90/100
critic score (3 outlets, IGDB)
86/100
IGDB user rating (248 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$4.99
steam price (US)

2,217 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 02:00 UTC (census sample)

Medieval II: Total War is a strategy video game developed by the since-disbanded Australian branch of The Creative Assembly and published by Sega. It was released for Microsoft Windows on 10 November 2006. Feral Interactive published versions of the game for macOS and Linux on 14 January 2016. It is the sequel to 2002's Medieval: Total War and the fourth title in the Total War series.

Health check

Healthy
  • · 2,217 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 1,420 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~178/week).
  • · Review velocity up 2% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 1% of 14,241 Strategy games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.5M–2.9M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 36,623 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.99 at Humble Store (2014-09-14) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $24.99 · on sale 48 of 93 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
76876820182026Week of 2018-01-01: 142 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 93 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 102 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 68 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 70 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 90 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 90 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 104 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 93 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 209 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 104 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 91 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 90 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 70 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 223 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 280 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 34 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 114 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 768 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 562 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 510 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 348 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 496 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 460 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 480 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 290 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 319 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 290 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 280 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 351 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 305 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 357 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 355 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 326 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 289 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 273 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 346 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 231 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 290 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 202 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 211 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 209 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 228 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 260 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 267 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 220 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 227 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 193 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 217 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 188 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 233 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 194 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 184 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 207 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 219 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 250 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 211 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 131 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 173 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 174 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 145 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 157 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 239 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 194 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 223 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 196 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 45 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 278 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 233 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 239 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 161 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 174 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 139 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 198 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 155 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 172 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 154 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 165 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 118 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 171 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 205 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 188 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 148 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 178 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 134 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 153 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 202 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 169 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 145 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 190 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 168 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 150 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 220 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 200 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 131 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 157 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 188 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 150 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 128 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 165 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 110 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 13 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

5.5k1.8k2026-09-15 12:00 — 2,764 players2026-09-16 20:00 — 4,234 players2026-09-18 03:00 — 1,996 players2026-09-19 11:00 — 3,793 players2026-09-20 18:00 — 5,457 players2026-09-22 02:00 — 2,305 players2026-09-23 10:00 — 2,529 players2026-09-24 17:00 — 4,262 players2026-09-26 01:00 — 2,727 players2026-09-27 08:00 — 3,344 players2026-09-28 16:00 — 3,834 players2026-09-29 23:00 — 2,615 players2026-10-01 07:00 — 1,977 players2026-10-02 14:00 — 3,809 players2026-10-03 22:00 — 3,951 players2026-10-05 06:00 — 1,920 players2026-10-06 13:00 — 3,204 players2026-10-07 21:00 — 3,812 players2026-10-09 04:00 — 1,850 players2026-10-10 12:00 — 4,062 players2026-10-11 20:00 — 5,183 players2026-10-13 03:00 — 2,086 players2026-10-14 11:00 — 2,606 players2026-10-15 02:00 — 2,217 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
4.6k692Jul 2012Aug 2026Jul 2012 — avg 994 · peak 1,607Dec 2012 — avg 822 · peak 1,442May 2013 — avg 1,080 · peak 2,010Oct 2013 — avg 717 · peak 1,360Mar 2014 — avg 1,119 · peak 1,891Aug 2014 — avg 986 · peak 1,742Jan 2015 — avg 1,525 · peak 2,691Jun 2015 — avg 1,918 · peak 5,545Nov 2015 — avg 1,835 · peak 3,484Apr 2016 — avg 2,688 · peak 4,815Sep 2016 — avg 2,541 · peak 4,586Feb 2017 — avg 2,939 · peak 5,350Jul 2017 — avg 3,023 · peak 4,970Dec 2017 — avg 2,980 · peak 5,086May 2018 — avg 2,691 · peak 4,581Oct 2018 — avg 2,981 · peak 5,236Mar 2019 — avg 3,253 · peak 5,888Aug 2019 — avg 2,749 · peak 4,635Jan 2020 — avg 3,185 · peak 5,716Jun 2020 — avg 3,272 · peak 5,582Nov 2020 — avg 3,338 · peak 5,558Apr 2021 — avg 3,439 · peak 6,012Sep 2021 — avg 2,771 · peak 4,816Feb 2022 — avg 3,150 · peak 5,354Jul 2022 — avg 3,007 · peak 4,885Dec 2022 — avg 3,222 · peak 5,250May 2023 — avg 2,834 · peak 4,693Oct 2023 — avg 3,326 · peak 5,967Mar 2024 — avg 3,264 · peak 5,538Aug 2024 — avg 3,120 · peak 5,058Jan 2025 — avg 3,405 · peak 5,792Jun 2025 — avg 3,136 · peak 5,336Nov 2025 — avg 3,254 · peak 5,524Apr 2026 — avg 3,156 · peak 5,444Aug 2026 — avg 3,384 · peak 5,838
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Chart history

PositiveNegative
10102026-09-212026-10-142026-09-21: 2 new positive2026-09-21: 2 new negative2026-09-22: 4 new positive2026-09-23: 6 new positive2026-09-24: 6 new positive2026-09-25: 10 new positive2026-09-26: 3 new positive2026-09-26: 2 new negative2026-09-27: 6 new positive2026-09-28: 3 new positive2026-09-28: 1 new negative2026-09-30: 2 new positive2026-10-01: 2 new positive2026-10-02: 3 new positive2026-10-02: 2 new negative2026-10-03: 5 new positive2026-10-04: 6 new positive2026-10-04: 1 new negative2026-10-05: 3 new positive2026-10-05: 1 new negative2026-10-06: 4 new positive2026-10-07: 7 new positive2026-10-07: 1 new negative2026-10-08: 4 new positive2026-10-08: 1 new negative2026-10-09: 4 new positive2026-10-10: 6 new positive2026-10-10: 1 new negative2026-10-11: 8 new positive2026-10-11: 1 new negative2026-10-12: 6 new positive2026-10-13: 7 new positive2026-10-14: 9 new positive2026-10-14: 1 new negative
New Steam reviews per day (census review snapshots). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$24.99$3.992015-01-012026-08-252015-01-01 — best price $6.792015-05-06 — best price $20.402015-07-23 — best price $10.912016-05-06 — best price $19.472016-11-13 — best price $19.992017-05-15 — best price $4.992017-09-25 — best price $19.992018-03-19 — best price $18.822018-08-06 — best price $4.872019-01-28 — best price $24.992019-10-07 — best price $24.992020-01-28 — best price $22.492020-05-04 — best price $24.992020-07-14 — best price $24.992020-08-20 — best price $22.392020-09-27 — best price $24.992020-11-09 — best price $24.992020-12-14 — best price $22.392021-02-03 — best price $22.392021-03-17 — best price $22.392021-04-28 — best price $24.992021-06-24 — best price $5.292022-02-04 — best price $19.942022-10-14 — best price $20.062023-04-06 — best price $22.392023-11-13 — best price $6.242024-05-04 — best price $6.252024-11-01 — best price $5.742025-03-06 — best price $6.252025-06-26 — best price $4.462025-11-17 — best price $22.492026-02-26 — best price $22.492026-04-30 — best price $24.992026-07-31 — best price $4.942026-08-25 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2871162026-05-29 — 134 pageviews2026-06-02 — 158 pageviews2026-06-06 — 141 pageviews2026-06-10 — 143 pageviews2026-06-14 — 151 pageviews2026-06-18 — 116 pageviews2026-06-22 — 123 pageviews2026-06-26 — 268 pageviews2026-06-30 — 172 pageviews2026-07-04 — 170 pageviews2026-07-08 — 196 pageviews2026-07-12 — 193 pageviews2026-07-16 — 126 pageviews2026-07-20 — 160 pageviews2026-07-24 — 185 pageviews2026-07-28 — 180 pageviews2026-08-01 — 148 pageviews2026-08-05 — 161 pageviews2026-08-09 — 179 pageviews2026-08-13 — 203 pageviews2026-08-17 — 189 pageviews2026-08-21 — 159 pageviews2026-08-25 — 192 pageviews2026-08-29 — 166 pageviews2026-09-02 — 176 pageviews2026-09-06 — 153 pageviews2026-09-10 — 154 pageviews2026-09-14 — 174 pageviews2026-09-18 — 153 pageviews2026-09-22 — 142 pageviews2026-09-26 — 150 pageviews2026-09-30 — 153 pageviews2026-10-04 — 163 pageviews2026-10-07 — 130 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

9202026-10-01 10:34 — 5 viewers2026-10-01 19:34 — 92 viewers2026-10-02 04:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-02 13:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-02 22:34 — 3 viewers2026-10-03 07:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-03 16:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-04 01:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-04 10:34 — 10 viewers2026-10-04 19:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-05 04:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-05 13:34 — 39 viewers2026-10-05 22:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-06 07:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-06 16:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-07 01:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-07 10:34 — 39 viewers2026-10-07 19:34 — 3 viewers2026-10-08 04:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-08 13:34 — 39 viewers2026-10-08 22:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-09 07:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-09 16:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-10 01:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-10 10:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-10 19:35 — 0 viewers2026-10-11 04:34 — 23 viewers2026-10-11 13:34 — 52 viewers2026-10-11 22:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-12 07:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-12 16:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-13 01:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-13 10:34 — 30 viewers2026-10-13 19:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-14 04:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-14 13:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-14 22:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-15 07:34 — 2 viewers2026-10-15 09:34 — 1 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerMulti-playerSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing

8 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Hungarian, Polish

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

RTSWarClassicMedievalMilitaryModdableStrategyTacticalHistoricalTurn-Based

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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