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Total War: WARHAMMER II

CREATIVE ASSEMBLY · SEGA · 2017-09-28

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ActionStrategy

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

Releases: Nov 20, 2018 (Linux), Sep 28, 2017 (Mac), Sep 28, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The forces of Lustria await your command. Choose your Legendary Lord, expand your armies, forge alliances in a strategic turn-based campaign, and unleash the might of your monstrous forces in fast-paced real-time battles.

Total War: WARHAMMER II is an Action, Strategy title released in 2017, priced at $14.99, with an estimated 5,000,000 .. 10,000,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (93% of 121472 reviews).

656
playing now
93%
positive of 121k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
5,000,000–10,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
0
twitch viewers (latest)
88/100
critic score (8 outlets, IGDB)
82/100
IGDB user rating (105 ratings)
36
Nexus mods (109k downloads)
86/100
opencritic · mighty · 93% recommend · from 64 critics
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$14.99
steam price (US)

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

Total War: Warhammer II is a turn-based strategy and real-time tactics video game developed by Creative Assembly and published by Sega. It is part of the Total War series and the sequel to 2016's Total War: Warhammer. The game is set in Games Workshop's Warhammer Fantasy fictional universe. The game was released for Windows-based PCs on 28 September 2017. Feral Interactive released the game on macOS and Linux on 20 November 2018. Total War: Warhammer II was succeeded by Total War: Warhammer III, which was released in February 2022.

Trailer

Total War: WARHAMMER II trailer thumbnail

Total War: Warhammer II - Announcement Trailer

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

Health check

Cooling
  • · 656 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 481 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~60/week).
  • · Review velocity down 51% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (5,496 reviews).
  • · Top 1% of 27,841 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-03

Tier history: healthy→cooling (Sep 3), unknown→healthy (Aug 27)

Estimated sales: 3.0M–7.3M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 121,484 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GameBillet$13.47-78%
Humble Store$14.99-75%
Steam$14.99-75%
Microsoft Store$59.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

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

12-month high $59.99 · on sale 55 of 100 observed days · $9.73 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
5.3k5.3k20182026Week of 2018-03-01: 259 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 43 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 171 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 42 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 306 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 381 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 86 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 285 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 37 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 209 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 41 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 195 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 42 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 305 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 56 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 2,199 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 102 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 348 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 90 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 339 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 75 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 353 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 75 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 304 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 120 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 450 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 76 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 337 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 59 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 1,813 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 47 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 2,290 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 61 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 250 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 116 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 434 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 133 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 964 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 111 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 4,385 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 98 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 5,313 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 183 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 2,773 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 117 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 1,756 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 71 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 1,615 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 70 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 2,306 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 125 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 3,614 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 191 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 2,440 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 195 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 1,993 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 132 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1,177 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 70 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 901 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 43 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1,567 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 102 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 2,505 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 87 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 2,367 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 129 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1,805 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 108 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 2,108 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 86 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 1,520 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 99 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1,003 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 76 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 1,150 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 261 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1,550 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 189 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 2,225 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 156 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1,085 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 83 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 1,102 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 74 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 946 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 128 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1,480 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 80 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1,206 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 87 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1,353 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 114 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1,178 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 519 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 505 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 58 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 418 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 53 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 377 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 55 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 598 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 67 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 595 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 53 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 598 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 61 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 316 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 353 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 45 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 333 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 40 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 286 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 283 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 37 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 172 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 251 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 165 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 170 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 184 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 193 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 37 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 180 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 66 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 157 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 46 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 164 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 147 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 159 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 138 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 166 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 56 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 147 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 44 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 118 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 147 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 108 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 155 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 156 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 166 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 39 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 133 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 130 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 105 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 128 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 177 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 39 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 138 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 37 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 100 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 123 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 85 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 99 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 101 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 119 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 95 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 103 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 112 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 53 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 78 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 111 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 54 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 59 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 60 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-10-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2026-10-01: 10 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1.4k5752026-09-15 11:00 — 767 players2026-09-16 19:00 — 1,133 players2026-09-18 03:00 — 611 players2026-09-19 10:00 — 1,082 players2026-09-20 18:00 — 1,388 players2026-09-22 02:00 — 684 players2026-09-23 09:00 — 681 players2026-09-24 17:00 — 1,014 players2026-09-26 00:00 — 767 players2026-09-27 08:00 — 922 players2026-09-28 15:00 — 1,007 players2026-09-29 23:00 — 741 players2026-10-01 06:00 — 605 players2026-10-02 14:00 — 1,031 players2026-10-03 21:00 — 1,207 players2026-10-05 05:00 — 650 players2026-10-06 13:00 — 935 players2026-10-07 20:00 — 1,058 players2026-10-09 04:00 — 622 players2026-10-10 11:00 — 1,167 players2026-10-11 19:00 — 1,418 players2026-10-13 03:00 — 700 players2026-10-14 10:00 — 731 players2026-10-15 02:00 — 656 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
36k7Apr 2017Aug 2026Apr 2017 — avg 7 · peak 24Jul 2017 — avg 14 · peak 44Oct 2017 — avg 24,377 · peak 72,112Jan 2018 — avg 15,057 · peak 44,312Apr 2018 — avg 10,141 · peak 17,329Jul 2018 — avg 13,304 · peak 22,611Oct 2018 — avg 12,772 · peak 23,798Jan 2019 — avg 15,780 · peak 26,759Apr 2019 — avg 20,644 · peak 41,122Jul 2019 — avg 12,277 · peak 20,383Oct 2019 — avg 18,870 · peak 36,973Jan 2020 — avg 22,946 · peak 40,168Apr 2020 — avg 24,100 · peak 48,740Jul 2020 — avg 24,553 · peak 40,599Oct 2020 — avg 20,153 · peak 33,874Jan 2021 — avg 24,622 · peak 38,565Apr 2021 — avg 19,907 · peak 32,888Jul 2021 — avg 29,786 · peak 74,898Oct 2021 — avg 18,927 · peak 32,935Jan 2022 — avg 22,259 · peak 38,592Apr 2022 — avg 8,019 · peak 13,549Jul 2022 — avg 12,657 · peak 19,650Oct 2022 — avg 5,954 · peak 10,327Jan 2023 — avg 4,532 · peak 7,050Apr 2023 — avg 3,844 · peak 6,500Jul 2023 — avg 3,113 · peak 4,754Oct 2023 — avg 2,835 · peak 4,697Jan 2024 — avg 2,820 · peak 4,359Apr 2024 — avg 2,429 · peak 3,910Jul 2024 — avg 2,428 · peak 3,794Oct 2024 — avg 2,165 · peak 3,658Jan 2025 — avg 2,202 · peak 3,687Apr 2025 — avg 1,717 · peak 2,814Jul 2025 — avg 1,683 · peak 2,694Oct 2025 — avg 1,555 · peak 2,708Jan 2026 — avg 1,181 · peak 1,950Apr 2026 — avg 917 · peak 1,575Jul 2026 — avg 886 · peak 1,431Aug 2026 — avg 975 · peak 1,667
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Chart history

PositiveNegative
662026-09-222026-10-142026-09-24: 1 new positive2026-09-27: 2 new negative2026-10-03: 2 new negative2026-10-04: 1 new positive2026-10-08: 1 new negative2026-10-10: 1 new positive2026-10-12: 6 new positive2026-10-14: 3 new negative
New Steam reviews per day (census review snapshots). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$59.99$12.802017-06-122026-10-152017-06-12 — best price $47.992017-10-16 — best price $53.992018-01-05 — best price $47.992018-04-01 — best price $53.992018-07-09 — best price $39.992018-11-20 — best price $59.992019-03-11 — best price $26.992019-09-28 — best price $55.782019-12-30 — best price $20.392020-02-14 — best price $55.262020-06-04 — best price $50.882020-07-26 — best price $50.882020-09-03 — best price $59.992020-10-13 — best price $20.392020-12-01 — best price $37.992021-01-19 — best price $50.882021-03-01 — best price $50.882021-04-13 — best price $59.992021-05-29 — best price $50.882021-12-22 — best price $15.942022-06-09 — best price $47.852022-10-20 — best price $53.992023-06-01 — best price $50.992023-11-30 — best price $49.192024-06-01 — best price $53.992024-11-01 — best price $13.792025-02-03 — best price $53.992025-05-23 — best price $15.002025-09-30 — best price $59.992026-01-06 — best price $14.492026-04-11 — best price $53.992026-08-13 — best price $14.992026-10-12 — best price $14.992026-10-15 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

200592026-05-29 — 98 pageviews2026-06-02 — 89 pageviews2026-06-06 — 89 pageviews2026-06-10 — 81 pageviews2026-06-14 — 84 pageviews2026-06-18 — 71 pageviews2026-06-22 — 59 pageviews2026-06-26 — 200 pageviews2026-06-30 — 106 pageviews2026-07-04 — 92 pageviews2026-07-08 — 90 pageviews2026-07-12 — 103 pageviews2026-07-16 — 64 pageviews2026-07-20 — 85 pageviews2026-07-24 — 83 pageviews2026-07-28 — 104 pageviews2026-08-01 — 77 pageviews2026-08-05 — 82 pageviews2026-08-09 — 86 pageviews2026-08-13 — 127 pageviews2026-08-17 — 121 pageviews2026-08-21 — 114 pageviews2026-08-25 — 106 pageviews2026-08-29 — 90 pageviews2026-09-02 — 99 pageviews2026-09-06 — 103 pageviews2026-09-10 — 64 pageviews2026-09-14 — 104 pageviews2026-09-18 — 59 pageviews2026-09-22 — 68 pageviews2026-09-26 — 89 pageviews2026-09-30 — 90 pageviews2026-10-04 — 104 pageviews2026-10-07 — 81 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

502026-10-01 07:34 — 3 viewers2026-10-01 16:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-02 01:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-02 10:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-02 19:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-03 04:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-03 13:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-03 22:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-04 07:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-04 16:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-05 01:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-05 10:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-05 19:34 — 2 viewers2026-10-06 04:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-06 13:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-06 22:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-07 07:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-07 16:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-08 01:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-08 10:34 — 2 viewers2026-10-08 19:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-09 04:34 — 2 viewers2026-10-09 13:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-09 22:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-10 07:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-10 16:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-11 01:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-11 10:34 — 3 viewers2026-10-11 19:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-12 04:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-12 13:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-12 22:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-13 07:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-13 16:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-14 01:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-14 10:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-14 19:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-15 04:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-15 06:34 — 0 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
72.2%
earned "Neophyte"
31.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPLAN PvPCo-opOnline Co-opLAN Co-opSteam AchievementsSteam Trading Cards23 DLC

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

Post-launch support: 23 DLC released, first 2017-10-26, latest 2026-05-21 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)39,0461%152
Windows (Xbox)5712%133

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

RTSWarCo-opActionFantasyStrategyTacticalTurn-BasedMultiplayerDark Fantasy

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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