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Total War: WARHAMMER III

CREATIVE ASSEMBLY · SEGA · 2022-02-16

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ActionStrategy

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

Releases: Feb 17, 2022 (Mac), Feb 17, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Feb 17, 2022 (Linux)

The cataclysmic conclusion to the Total War: WARHAMMER trilogy is here. Rally your forces and step into the Realm of Chaos, a dimension of mind-bending horror where the very fate of the world will be decided. Will you conquer your Daemons… or command them?

Total War: WARHAMMER III is a $59.99 Action and Strategy game released in 2022, with an estimated 2,000,000 .. 5,000,000 owners and Mostly Positive (71% of 146672 reviews).

48,338
playing now
72%
positive of 151k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
2,000,000–5,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
1,165
twitch viewers (latest)
23.8
viewers/channel (concentration)
78/100
critic score (3 outlets, IGDB)
83/100
IGDB user rating (54 ratings)
284
Nexus mods (1.3M downloads)
86/100
opencritic · mighty · 94% recommend · from 73 critics
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
$59.99
steam price (US)

48,338 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 16:00 UTC (census sample)

Total War: Warhammer III 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 third to be set in Games Workshop's Warhammer Fantasy fictional universe. The game was announced on 3 February 2021 and was released on 17 February 2022. It received positive reviews from critics and was nominated for the British Academy Games Award for British Game at the 19th British Academy Games Awards.

Trailer

Total War: WARHAMMER III trailer thumbnail

Total War: WARHAMMER III Announce Trailer - Conquer Your Daemons | Coming 2022

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

Health check

Thriving
  • · 48,338 players in-game right now — a Steam top-100 title.
  • · 9,212 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1,152/week).
  • · Review velocity down 34% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 1% of 28,080 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.0M–6.8M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 150,525 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$0.00
GameBillet$8.07-87%
Humble Store$8.99-85%
Steam$8.99-85%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $7.79 at Fanatical (2026-09-14) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $59.99 · on sale 86 of 126 observed days · at its all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
14k14k20222026Week of 2022-02-01: 14,400 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 8,055 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 2,670 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 2,897 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 937 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1,320 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 602 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1,134 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 470 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 336 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 662 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 282 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 3,042 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 650 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 2,426 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 497 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1,215 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 268 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 2,506 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 252 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 955 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 259 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 972 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 217 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1,124 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 167 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1,411 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 305 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1,306 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 662 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 868 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 313 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 657 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 145 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 938 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 216 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 890 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 5,797 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 764 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1,961 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 528 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1,132 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 757 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1,107 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 780 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 445 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 742 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 273 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 580 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 183 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 747 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 213 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 953 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 164 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1,399 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 269 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 2,350 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 209 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1,013 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 245 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 872 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 153 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 921 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 189 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 718 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 112 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1,228 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 152 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1,665 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 311 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 889 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 191 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 704 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 167 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 837 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 221 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 619 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 107 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 681 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 117 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 767 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 160 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 889 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 188 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 656 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 142 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 718 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 165 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 999 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 4,126 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1,003 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 369 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1,862 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 619 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1,066 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 281 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 760 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 178 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 695 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 169 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 751 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 207 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 945 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 286 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 828 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 167 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1,042 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 251 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1,139 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 255 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 1,290 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 249 negativeWeek of 2026-10-01: 618 positiveWeek of 2026-10-01: 154 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102k14k2026-09-15 16:00 — 29,160 players2026-09-16 13:00 — 25,866 players2026-09-17 10:00 — 19,106 players2026-09-18 07:00 — 15,419 players2026-09-19 04:00 — 21,478 players2026-09-20 01:00 — 21,407 players2026-09-20 22:00 — 25,623 players2026-09-21 19:00 — 30,017 players2026-09-22 16:00 — 27,659 players2026-09-23 13:00 — 23,293 players2026-09-24 10:00 — 16,883 players2026-09-25 07:00 — 49,845 players2026-09-26 04:00 — 57,959 players2026-09-27 01:00 — 59,477 players2026-09-27 22:00 — 69,844 players2026-09-28 19:00 — 78,805 players2026-09-29 16:00 — 69,073 players2026-09-30 13:00 — 56,545 players2026-10-01 10:00 — 44,157 players2026-10-02 07:00 — 37,474 players2026-10-03 04:00 — 44,933 players2026-10-04 01:00 — 46,279 players2026-10-04 22:00 — 55,734 players2026-10-05 19:00 — 63,380 players2026-10-06 16:00 — 59,531 players2026-10-07 13:00 — 50,337 players2026-10-08 10:00 — 35,345 players2026-10-09 07:00 — 30,012 players2026-10-10 04:00 — 37,635 players2026-10-11 01:00 — 42,386 players2026-10-11 22:00 — 48,607 players2026-10-12 19:00 — 60,865 players2026-10-13 16:00 — 52,942 players2026-10-14 13:00 — 45,184 players2026-10-15 10:00 — 31,266 players2026-10-15 16:00 — 48,338 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
78k4.8kFeb 2022Aug 2026Feb 2022 — avg 77,528 · peak 166,519Apr 2022 — avg 9,968 · peak 21,346Jun 2022 — avg 4,786 · peak 8,364Aug 2022 — avg 25,432 · peak 119,036Oct 2022 — avg 25,963 · peak 48,692Dec 2022 — avg 17,902 · peak 27,942Feb 2023 — avg 20,460 · peak 37,527Apr 2023 — avg 31,263 · peak 73,613Jun 2023 — avg 17,997 · peak 33,771Aug 2023 — avg 15,459 · peak 27,520Oct 2023 — avg 15,349 · peak 27,718Dec 2023 — avg 16,651 · peak 27,137Feb 2024 — avg 17,757 · peak 33,167Apr 2024 — avg 20,488 · peak 66,608Jun 2024 — avg 26,308 · peak 49,758Aug 2024 — avg 19,615 · peak 33,052Oct 2024 — avg 18,674 · peak 32,311Dec 2024 — avg 27,190 · peak 48,514Feb 2025 — avg 20,542 · peak 34,549Apr 2025 — avg 21,410 · peak 37,952Jun 2025 — avg 19,960 · peak 33,213Aug 2025 — avg 20,574 · peak 36,805Oct 2025 — avg 20,665 · peak 36,832Dec 2025 — avg 34,997 · peak 64,158Feb 2026 — avg 22,790 · peak 37,431Apr 2026 — avg 19,279 · peak 33,106Jun 2026 — avg 23,038 · peak 40,629Aug 2026 — avg 27,221 · peak 51,034
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Chart history

#18#702026-09-152026-10-152026-09-15 — #182026-09-16 — #182026-09-17 — #182026-09-18 — #672026-09-19 — #682026-09-20 — #672026-09-21 — #662026-09-22 — #662026-09-23 — #682026-09-24 — #702026-09-25 — #302026-09-26 — #262026-09-27 — #262026-09-28 — #282026-09-29 — #282026-09-30 — #282026-10-01 — #302026-10-02 — #342026-10-03 — #362026-10-04 — #362026-10-05 — #362026-10-06 — #362026-10-07 — #392026-10-08 — #402026-10-09 — #402026-10-10 — #422026-10-11 — #412026-10-12 — #412026-10-13 — #432026-10-14 — #432026-10-15 — #43
Best Steam most-played rank per day (census top-100 snapshots).
PositiveNegative
89892026-09-302026-10-152026-09-30: 62 new positive2026-09-30: 2 new negative2026-10-08: 56 new positive2026-10-08: 2 new negative2026-10-10: 89 new positive2026-10-10: 2 new negative2026-10-12: 58 new positive2026-10-12: 2 new negative2026-10-13: 51 new positive2026-10-14: 54 new positive2026-10-14: 2 new negative2026-10-15: 42 new positive2026-10-15: 8 new negative
New Steam reviews per day (census review snapshots). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$59.99$0.002021-02-032026-10-152021-02-03 — best price $59.992021-03-14 — best price $50.882021-05-09 — best price $47.452021-10-13 — best price $47.392022-01-09 — best price $47.392022-03-22 — best price $47.392022-06-08 — best price $47.862022-08-07 — best price $53.992022-10-14 — best price $47.372022-11-30 — best price $47.372022-12-24 — best price $37.992023-03-16 — best price $59.992023-06-29 — best price $30.752023-09-04 — best price $53.992023-11-29 — best price $25.632024-01-10 — best price $59.992024-05-24 — best price $26.702024-07-25 — best price $29.992024-10-03 — best price $21.572024-11-27 — best price $23.992025-01-15 — best price $53.992025-02-15 — best price $24.002025-03-17 — best price $59.992025-06-26 — best price $18.322025-08-14 — best price $20.392025-10-16 — best price $14.992025-11-27 — best price $14.992026-01-10 — best price $53.992026-03-04 — best price $53.352026-04-13 — best price $13.792026-05-29 — best price $53.352026-08-01 — best price $53.992026-08-17 — best price $8.092026-08-29 — best price $8.062026-09-27 — best price $7.752026-10-10 — best price $8.992026-10-15 — best price $8.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

7252052026-05-28 — 264 pageviews2026-06-01 — 263 pageviews2026-06-05 — 318 pageviews2026-06-09 — 305 pageviews2026-06-13 — 244 pageviews2026-06-17 — 213 pageviews2026-06-21 — 254 pageviews2026-06-25 — 304 pageviews2026-06-29 — 373 pageviews2026-07-03 — 318 pageviews2026-07-07 — 284 pageviews2026-07-11 — 314 pageviews2026-07-15 — 235 pageviews2026-07-19 — 249 pageviews2026-07-23 — 227 pageviews2026-07-27 — 264 pageviews2026-07-31 — 218 pageviews2026-08-04 — 254 pageviews2026-08-08 — 234 pageviews2026-08-12 — 220 pageviews2026-08-16 — 461 pageviews2026-08-20 — 327 pageviews2026-08-24 — 340 pageviews2026-08-28 — 295 pageviews2026-09-01 — 281 pageviews2026-09-05 — 262 pageviews2026-09-09 — 254 pageviews2026-09-13 — 264 pageviews2026-09-17 — 243 pageviews2026-09-21 — 226 pageviews2026-09-25 — 415 pageviews2026-09-29 — 349 pageviews2026-10-03 — 367 pageviews2026-10-07 — 304 pageviews2026-10-11 — 315 pageviews2026-10-14 — 334 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

5.2k1412026-10-01 16:34 — 4,476 viewers2026-10-02 02:34 — 2,413 viewers2026-10-02 09:12 — 1,745 viewers2026-10-02 17:34 — 1,682 viewers2026-10-03 02:34 — 1,059 viewers2026-10-03 10:12 — 2,695 viewers2026-10-03 18:34 — 1,116 viewers2026-10-04 03:34 — 1,721 viewers2026-10-04 09:12 — 2,054 viewers2026-10-04 17:34 — 1,854 viewers2026-10-05 02:34 — 1,433 viewers2026-10-05 08:34 — 5,170 viewers2026-10-05 14:34 — 2,145 viewers2026-10-05 23:34 — 650 viewers2026-10-06 08:34 — 1,941 viewers2026-10-06 17:34 — 3,819 viewers2026-10-07 02:34 — 599 viewers2026-10-07 11:34 — 1,404 viewers2026-10-07 20:34 — 2,284 viewers2026-10-08 05:34 — 141 viewers2026-10-08 14:34 — 1,144 viewers2026-10-08 23:34 — 171 viewers2026-10-09 08:34 — 2,137 viewers2026-10-09 17:34 — 2,238 viewers2026-10-10 02:34 — 1,106 viewers2026-10-10 11:34 — 2,436 viewers2026-10-10 20:35 — 2,064 viewers2026-10-11 05:34 — 1,720 viewers2026-10-11 14:34 — 1,260 viewers2026-10-11 23:34 — 1,559 viewers2026-10-12 08:34 — 387 viewers2026-10-12 17:34 — 1,583 viewers2026-10-13 02:34 — 1,287 viewers2026-10-13 10:34 — 756 viewers2026-10-13 19:34 — 1,366 viewers2026-10-14 04:34 — 1,259 viewers2026-10-14 13:34 — 1,001 viewers2026-10-14 22:34 — 1,030 viewers2026-10-15 07:34 — 556 viewers2026-10-15 15:34 — 1,165 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
76.8%
earned "Rising Power"
31.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPLAN PvPCo-opOnline Co-opLAN Co-opSteam AchievementsSteam Trading Cards34 DLC

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

Post-launch support: 38 DLC released, first 2016-05-24, latest 2026-09-24 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)34,7291%138
Windows (Xbox)4,7820%138
Windows (Xbox)1828%138

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

RTSWarDwarfActionFantasyColorfulStrategyTacticalAtmosphericMultiplayer

Census log

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

Recent updates

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