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Total War: WARHAMMER cover art

Total War: WARHAMMER

CREATIVE ASSEMBLY · SEGA · 2016-05-24

SteamEpic Games StoreMicrosoft Store

ActionStrategy

Franchise: Warhammer, Total War · Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: May 24, 2016 (Linux), May 24, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), May 24, 2016 (Mac)

The Old World is yours to command. Lead Legendary Lords in a combination of turn-based campaign and magically charged, strategic real-time battles, and decide the fate of your chosen race in a fight against Chaos.

Total War: WARHAMMER is a 2016 Action and Strategy game priced at $14.99, with an estimated 1,000,000 .. 2,000,000 owners and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (79% of 52339 reviews).

203
playing now
79%
positive of 52k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
1,000,000–2,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
85/100
critic score (23 outlets, IGDB)
85/100
IGDB user rating (117 ratings)
1
Nexus mods (11 downloads)
86/100
opencritic · mighty · 87% recommend · from 66 critics
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$14.99
steam price (US)

203 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 11:00 UTC (census sample)

Total War: Warhammer is a 2016 turn-based strategy and real-time tactics video game developed by Creative Assembly and published by Sega for Windows via the Steam gaming platform. The game was brought to macOS and Linux by Feral Interactive. The game features the gameplay of the Total War series with factions of Games Workshop's Warhammer Fantasy series; it is the first Total War game not to portray a historical setting. It is the tenth title in the Total War series and the first title to be released in the Total War: Warhammer trilogy.

Trailer

Total War: WARHAMMER trailer thumbnail

Total War: WARHAMMER III - Lords of The End Times - Cinematic trailer

≈1,000,000 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 203 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 323 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~40/week).
  • · Review velocity down 24% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 2% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-27

Estimated sales: 1.3M–3.1M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 52,359 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GameBillet$12.70-79%
GreenManGaming$13.50-77%
Gamesplanet$14.36-76%
Humble Store$14.99-75%
Microsoft Store$59.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $5.26 at AllYouPlay (2020-02-08) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $59.99 · on sale 63 of 100 observed days · $9.73 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
44944920182026Week of 2018-01-01: 178 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 60 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 148 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 41 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 93 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 69 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 64 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 214 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 104 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 121 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 39 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 75 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 71 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 78 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 126 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 77 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 281 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 83 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 85 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 94 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 36 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 77 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 40 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 85 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 295 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 319 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 72 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 89 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 91 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 64 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 411 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 449 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 301 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 203 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 230 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 301 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 287 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 239 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 204 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 113 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 114 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 194 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 172 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 188 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 174 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 219 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 150 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 95 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 130 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 102 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 175 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 67 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 150 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 93 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 90 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 103 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 152 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 118 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 150 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 149 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 174 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 75 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 69 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 66 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 92 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 75 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 101 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 91 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 92 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 82 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 83 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 88 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 59 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 74 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 78 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 68 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 59 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 116 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 114 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 56 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 57 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 62 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 4 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

4781242026-09-15 12:00 — 250 players2026-09-16 20:00 — 355 players2026-09-18 03:00 — 148 players2026-09-19 11:00 — 261 players2026-09-20 18:00 — 396 players2026-09-22 02:00 — 165 players2026-09-23 10:00 — 184 players2026-09-24 17:00 — 312 players2026-09-26 01:00 — 182 players2026-09-27 08:00 — 260 players2026-09-28 16:00 — 296 players2026-09-29 23:00 — 183 players2026-10-01 07:00 — 144 players2026-10-02 14:00 — 290 players2026-10-03 22:00 — 345 players2026-10-05 06:00 — 161 players2026-10-06 13:00 — 243 players2026-10-07 21:00 — 302 players2026-10-09 04:00 — 149 players2026-10-10 12:00 — 320 players2026-10-11 20:00 — 478 players2026-10-13 03:00 — 201 players2026-10-14 11:00 — 203 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
41k240May 2016Aug 2026May 2016 — avg 40,988 · peak 111,909Sep 2016 — avg 7,924 · peak 17,244Jan 2017 — avg 9,589 · peak 18,821May 2017 — avg 7,669 · peak 13,940Sep 2017 — avg 10,626 · peak 22,323Jan 2018 — avg 3,760 · peak 7,167May 2018 — avg 2,145 · peak 3,708Sep 2018 — avg 1,825 · peak 3,288Jan 2019 — avg 2,133 · peak 4,208May 2019 — avg 1,952 · peak 4,223Sep 2019 — avg 1,319 · peak 2,338Jan 2020 — avg 1,422 · peak 2,652May 2020 — avg 1,622 · peak 3,095Sep 2020 — avg 804 · peak 1,412Jan 2021 — avg 977 · peak 1,907May 2021 — avg 800 · peak 1,523Sep 2021 — avg 656 · peak 1,441Jan 2022 — avg 876 · peak 1,665May 2022 — avg 486 · peak 830Sep 2022 — avg 706 · peak 1,327Jan 2023 — avg 598 · peak 1,142May 2023 — avg 485 · peak 1,028Sep 2023 — avg 388 · peak 729Jan 2024 — avg 464 · peak 881May 2024 — avg 423 · peak 892Sep 2024 — avg 391 · peak 788Jan 2025 — avg 723 · peak 1,630May 2025 — avg 341 · peak 675Sep 2025 — avg 343 · peak 667Jan 2026 — avg 360 · peak 707May 2026 — avg 258 · peak 516Aug 2026 — avg 306 · peak 646
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$61.82$0.002015-07-012026-10-142015-07-01 — best price $59.992016-05-13 — best price $59.992016-08-11 — best price $46.792016-11-14 — best price $59.992017-01-08 — best price $41.992017-04-21 — best price $59.992017-07-17 — best price $20.392017-09-07 — best price $20.392017-11-07 — best price $59.992018-01-04 — best price $59.992018-03-23 — best price $20.392018-06-12 — best price $53.092018-11-02 — best price $15.002019-02-04 — best price $14.992019-08-20 — best price $12.122020-01-02 — best price $59.992020-02-16 — best price $54.142020-06-06 — best price $59.992020-07-28 — best price $59.992020-09-04 — best price $51.892020-10-19 — best price $55.192020-12-07 — best price $59.992021-01-22 — best price $51.792021-03-02 — best price $59.992021-04-08 — best price $51.892021-05-17 — best price $59.992021-10-01 — best price $47.872022-02-10 — best price $47.982022-08-22 — best price $10.182023-01-06 — best price $47.962023-09-21 — best price $14.992024-03-26 — best price $49.192024-10-07 — best price $35.992025-02-03 — best price $53.992025-05-22 — best price $9.662025-10-09 — best price $14.992026-01-10 — best price $35.992026-04-13 — best price $13.792026-08-14 — best price $14.992026-10-14 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

3801232026-05-29 — 148 pageviews2026-06-02 — 202 pageviews2026-06-06 — 178 pageviews2026-06-10 — 273 pageviews2026-06-14 — 180 pageviews2026-06-18 — 136 pageviews2026-06-22 — 159 pageviews2026-06-26 — 248 pageviews2026-06-30 — 298 pageviews2026-07-04 — 175 pageviews2026-07-08 — 198 pageviews2026-07-12 — 281 pageviews2026-07-16 — 176 pageviews2026-07-20 — 210 pageviews2026-07-24 — 197 pageviews2026-07-28 — 206 pageviews2026-08-01 — 150 pageviews2026-08-05 — 176 pageviews2026-08-09 — 150 pageviews2026-08-13 — 292 pageviews2026-08-17 — 283 pageviews2026-08-21 — 203 pageviews2026-08-25 — 237 pageviews2026-08-29 — 212 pageviews2026-09-02 — 206 pageviews2026-09-06 — 164 pageviews2026-09-10 — 123 pageviews2026-09-14 — 156 pageviews2026-09-18 — 130 pageviews2026-09-22 — 149 pageviews2026-09-26 — 183 pageviews2026-09-30 — 180 pageviews2026-10-04 — 189 pageviews2026-10-07 — 144 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

402026-09-30 21:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-01 01:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-01 05:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-02 01:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-02 05:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-02 09:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-02 13:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-03 23:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-04 03:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-04 07:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-04 11:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-04 15:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-06 01:35 — 0 viewers2026-10-06 05:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-06 09:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-06 13:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-08 00:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-08 04:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-08 08:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-08 12:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-10 00:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-10 04:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-10 08:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-10 12:34 — 4 viewers2026-10-11 22:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-12 02:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-12 06:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-12 10:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-13 21:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-14 01:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-14 05:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-14 09:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-14 10:34 — 0 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
62.5%
earned "Embark Upon Adventure!"
24.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPLAN PvPCo-opOnline Co-opLAN Co-opSteam AchievementsSteam Trading Cards14 DLC

12 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Turkish, Czech, Simplified Chinese

Post-launch support: 14 DLC released, first 2016-05-24, latest 2026-05-21 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)34,2811%185
Windows (Xbox)6710%185

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

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

Player tags

RTSWarDwarfActionFantasyStrategyTacticalTurn-BasedAtmosphericMultiplayer

Census log

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

Recent updates

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Similarity via IGDB.

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