Total War: WARHAMMER III

Plague is in the air, the lands are corrupted and rat infestation underground but worst of all? those filthy elves.

The game has become increasingly unstable with each update, and tends to crash a lot. Load times seem to be getting worse as well. Each update forces content into your campaign which every faction other than you gets, unless you pay money for the DLC. It was a great idea originally, and really liked to when it came out. Now it's a sad over monetised mockery of what it once was - which may make it the perfect representation of Games Workshop as a whole.

By far one of the best, coolest and most thoughtful strategy-type war games I've ever played! CRAZY amounts of cool and interesting content, great combat, TONS of stats and 'stuff' to ponder over, including really neat (and unique to different Races + Factions!) objectives and things to complete on the Campaign Map other than combat. Really really neat stuff, highly recommended if you're into this sort of fantasy war thing!

1000+ hours combined in all 3 Warhammer games combined. Haven't even scratched the surface of all the content there is, especially with mods like SFO Grimhammer. Playing with Ironman mode is extremely immersive. This is a game I will be playing for tens of years, just like Medieval 2 and Rome. Also yes to get all the content is expensive. You need 1 to 3 + the DLCs to access everything. It is pricey. It is also 10+ years of very active development and everything goes on sale regularly. All things considered the steep price makes sense.

Crashes constantly after latest patch and its very frustrating. I will change my review to a positive one as soon as the devs fix whatever it is they broke.

The game becomes unplayable every "hotfix" I didn't even know you needed to have the other 2 games just to play a certain faction. best way to enjoy this is to get the first two from a reputable pirate source, mount 3 through a nexus mod manager, then play the game on your own terms. otherwise, good luck.

This game and its dlc's have the worst ratio of playtime/money spent in my game library.

I really wish i could recommend this game but they nickle and dim you every step of the way so I can't. Now if you don't mind spending a small fortune this game is very fun and to a certain extent the base game is fun as well. However there's just so much content locked behind pay walls that even getting it all on 50% or higher discounts it'll cost you as much as 4 new games. Overall i really do like the game i just wish they didn't price it and all dlc to death.

One of my best buys on Steam 20 hours in — one campaign done, two factions tried, still lost in all the mechanics Insane amount of content Other strategy games now feel like diet versions Must-have if you love commanding armies or want a deep strategy fix Wish I could watch auto-resolve battles — the fights are just too epic to skip

There are so many factions with so many different mechanics that each play through feels very unique. I just want some updates to the Bretonnians please.

Its really annoying that the vast majority of lords are either paid DLC or you have to have bought previous games in the franchise, so I want to buy this game once. I wanted to play Lizardmen but all of the lords are unavailable because I do not have any DLCs at the time of writing this so I am kinda mad. I wanna play my game, paying once! But overall I like it. If you do not want to pay a lot I would not recommend.

Fun game, expensive to get everything, but worth it over the long run IMO.

600 dollars to get access to all content, hasnt fixed problems from the very first in the series. It's like one of those influencer restaurants where your meal looks amazing but tastes bland.

I love this game and played it... well, playin' right now again, over and over again. But recently I have impression they slowed down the start screen and render the mod manager slow as snail. I hope it is some bug, not company policy. And I hope they will fix it

Amazing three games in one. Quite expensive with all DLCs, but worth it.

The game is very slow to load screens, over 10 minutes most of the time. I've tried to use minimal settings and it still doesn't work properly. What is the point of playing the game anyway if you can't use all the functions except on the lowest settings. I own the first 2 editions of the trilogy and have enjoyed them but this one is too frustrating. What is worse is the time I spent trying to make it work better cost me my refund from Steam. I'm glad I didn't pay full price for this disappointing game.

You get half if not less of a game for $60. You need to buy all the other games and DLC in those game to unlock content in this game? Yet you leave the content from 10 years ago at full price? Will never buy another piece of content from this company and will uninstall all these games. Why does such a good IP have to be in such greedy hands.

Listen up, future warlords of the digital age—this game is like crack, but with more dragons and slightly less legal trouble. I came for the big battles, stayed for the lore, and now I’m trapped in a never-ending cycle of "[i]just one more turn[/i]" until the sun comes up. [h2]The Good (Which is Most of It, Honestly):[/h2] [h3]Factions?[/h3] You mean my new hyperfixations? [b]Skaven:[/b] YES-YES! Backstabbing, nuke-spamming, rat-men who shouldn't exist but somehow rule the under-empire. [b]Kislev:[/b] Bears. More bears. Bear cavalry. BEAR SUPREMACY. [b]Cathay:[/b] "Oh wow, a balanced, disciplined faction—" PSYCHE, here’s two dragons who hate each other. [b]Empire:[/b] "SUMMON THE ELECTOR COUNTS!" (I have this macro’d to my keyboard now.) [b]Vampires:[/b] Goths who took "raise the dead" way too literally. [b]Chaos Dwarfs:[/b] Evil steampunk slavers. My moral compass: [spinning like a top] [b]Dwarfs:[/b] "THAT’S GOING IN THE BOOK!" (They have a book. For grudges. It’s hilarious.) [b]Lizardmen:[/b] DINOSAURS. RIDING. DINOSAURS. Need I continue? [b]Ogre Kingdoms:[/b] "MEAT." – Ogres, explaining their entire political system. [b]Wood Elves:[/b] If elves were Texas Rangers but with more trees and less guns. [b]Khorne:[/b] BLOOD. SKULLS. ANGER ISSUES. [b]Nurgle:[/b] Papa’s happy plague family. They’re disgusting. I love them. [b]Tzeentch:[/b] "Just as planned." (Translation: "I have no idea what I’m doing.") [b]Slaanesh:[/b] "Excessive perfection." (Also, why are the daemonettes like that?) [h3]DLCs?[/h3] Worth it. Thrones of Decay? Omens of Destruction? More like "Omens of My Wallet Crying But I Don’t Care." Unique mechanics, new toys, 10/10 [h3]Lore & Story?[/h3] Chef’s kiss. I’m out here quoting Warhammer like it’s Shakespeare while my cat judges me. [h3]Multiplayer?[/h3] Absolute chaos (pun intended). Nothing like watching your buddy’s elite army get wrecked Only downside? No in-game voice chat. [b]CA, it’s 2025![/b] [h3]Tzeentch’s Trial Battles?[/h3] Genius. Like a fantasy battle royale, except instead of a victory royale, you get the sweet taste of [b]Defeat[/b] [h2]The Not-So-Great:[/h2] [h3]Tomb Kings?[/h3] Look, I love my skeletal kings in theory, but their campaign is slower than a college student on a Monday morning. Wake me up when Settra remembers what "haste" means. [h3]Achievement hunting?[/h3] Did it. All of ‘em. My reward? A sense of pride, accomplishment, and a Steam profile that screams "I need sunlight." [h2]Final Verdict:[/h2] If you love strategy, fantasy, or just watching tiny digital men beat each other up in glorious detail, BUY THIS GAME. It’s got more content than my grandma’s fridge after Thanksgiving, and the community’s awesome. [b]FOR SIGMAR! FOR THE GREAT HORNED RAT! FOR WHOEVER’S WINNING THIS TURN![/b]

The game its self cost 60$ and you only get like 8 playable factions out of the like 40. Most of the factions you get from this are demonic factions which are fun but can sometimes be a little anoying to play and monotionus. The funny thing is to even be able to play those other factions you need to drop 20$ to play like 3-2 factions or buy the other games which is another 120$. Not to mention the game fucking crashes every other second if you breath the wrong way it will crash if you look at the game a funny way then it crashes. And one final fuck you is that to get blood you have to pay for it Total War are money grubing shit heads make your game better its been out for almost 3 years.

played for 50 hours and loved it. However after the LATEST patch it refuses to load my campaign, over 20 hours of gameplay lost, I followed the guid for resolving it and nothing works, it gets stuck on the loading screen then crashes if i try and click anything, please fix this. P.S. if you have run into this problem and fixed please comment how

One of the few games I would have paid triple the asking price, and still smiled and said thank you. If you like Total War, or Warhammer, or both, you should really get this one.

new update broke the game, it gets to 95% loaded and then freezes forever or crashes. i had 0 issues in 422 hours and now the game is unplayable, but at least the unplayable game only takes up 83gb instead of 120gb

random 55gig update that makes the game crash after every second battle well done.

Devs need downvotes for recent changes to chaos that make the game too easy if you're playing as chaos or impossible if you're playing an order faction that is anywhere near chaos in the early game. After the recent changes to Chaos, the auto-battle can show you winning 2/3rds of the bar. Then you ambush with a garrison and a second army at half power and still lose? Anyone who disagrees, go play Mother Ostankya's Kislev opening, using exclusively auto battle. It is possible that everyone ignores you and you get the towns you need to pop off (I did it 1/4), but it is completely at the chaos NPC's whim. If they target you too early you lose. The auto resolve will even portray it as a win, but it will be a loss. I am aware this alternate opening is supposed to be difficult, but the amount of bullshit the Khorne gets means even the nobody factions like Aarbol can completely oppress you, even if you rush the growth and economy you need for Ice warriors and Lil Groms. I'll change my review if they fix it so order is playable and chaos isn't laughable easy again someday.

The game has got too big for CA to handle, too many factions have bugs and are neglected for example wood elves have forest bonuses are bugged making fighting in woods useless for a faction that NEEDS those bonuses and oxyotle sanctum buildings are bugged his key mechanic

Turn based Strategy with real time battles. The AI is moderately good so you need not play online. Each faction/race is different so playing a different faction or race is like playing a new game.

Great game. I just don't like the idea of buying the previous games to play all the content.

8.5-9/10. Very ambitious game with many factions with so many different mechanics that each play through feels very unique. Lots of content unfortunately to be purchased and this game in vanilla is not worth its price of $60 so keep that in mind. Just very expensive. If you want to stick to the Total War Franchise cheaper options are Shogun 2 or Napoleon Total War. (Both of those games are still 10/10's). Good modding community too. This is the first warhammer game ive played and compared to the few other total war titles this game does feel like a breath of fresh air with its variety, unique mechanices, and just overall fun lords and units. (My favorite lord is Grom the Paunch, i recommend getting his dlc).

There's going to be a lot of asterisks here, but at the end of the day, I absolutely recommend this game. The community loudly, frequently complains (oftentimes they're right to!) and that might put you off, but to be honest this game is FABULOUS. It's the best of the total warhammer games because it fixes the things about the past games that irks me, has EVERYTHING, and the new problems it introduces are not worse than the problems of past TWH games. Great new factions, great new stuff. If you've never played a game like this before it can be very overwhelming, and even if you're used to playing historical total war it can still be quite tough to learn how this game differs from it. Stick with it and you'll find something wonderful here for you, though! The modding community is EXCELLENT and I strongly recommend looking into it if you get this game. The asterisks I mentioned earlier however are all dollar signs. Yes, you can play every faction in every total warhammer game in this game, in multiplayer, with your friends - and with massive awesome improvements like having everyone able to participate in battles that you play out and don't autoresolve (in past games you either autoresolved or wasted your friends' time, here you can elect to give them control over this or that unit or set of units in your army, or they can even try to take up the other army's side and fight you! It's GREAT. Giant, giant improvement, favorite change for sure!) Yes, you can do this. However. The price tag is [i]severe[/i], and it's very difficult to know whether or not you'll enjoy a faction without playing at least a few hours of them. At time of writing, without sales involved, you're spending several hundred dollars to get the 'complete' package, and new DLCs are also not cheap at all. So if you want to get this game, spend strategically. Wishlist, wait for sales. The game is excellent, and having access to ALL the games and ALL the factions and being able to play out the campaigns for the different factions in past games (I think total warhammer 2's campaign is especially neat, I just don't like its gameplay nearly as much as this game) is well worth a significant price tag, we're talking hundreds and hundreds of hours spent having a blast here, and many more with friends - but your wallet's going to feel it.

for someone who has limited pc experience, total war 3 is easy to follow and learn. the campaign offers a multitude of gameplay and the choice of factions is great.

Total War: Warhammer 3 has a lot of good, though there's a few things I noticed that could be deal-breakers for people looking to play this game. The major one that could be an issue is that the factions aren't all accessible without having to buy DLC packs and the other Total War: Warhammer games. If the collection itself wasn't over $120+ normally, I'd probably say that it was an optional way to play the game. But with the base game being $60 standard price, that's a lot of money some may not have. If you're a big fan of the series and want to play the game, I'd wait until it's on sale if you wish to play it. Otherwise it'll likely feel like you're getting ripped off for the amount of monetization they're doing.

the absurd level of DLC greed makes me feel like piracy of this game should be forgiven. you need to buy previous game and their DLCs in order to play about 1/3 of all factions, even after you already purchased the "complete" DLC bundle of warhammer 3 wanna play as tomb kings/skaven/dark elf...? nope, go buy more DLCs, we didn't even provide you a good to-buy list, good luck sorting them all out, we also used pretty crypted mechandise names for them because f♥️♥️♥️ you. and you would have still-locked arsenals in your "unlocked" factions because the devs are trolls.

You play as a warlord of any race, you then spend most of your time questioning your sanity as to why you are now losing money. But hey that rare new troop seems like a fine addition, that cant be the problem surely its your sources of money.

The total war series has a real habit of forcing games of you vs the world. I am not impressed with every game seeming to be me vs 3 strong foes before turn 10. Also I am really unimpressed with the rats and how someone was like... yeah, lets put in this super unfun race to play against with equally unfun stealth mechanics added. The game isn't bad when you aren't under attack by 5 races, really can be fun. But when I load a game on normal I am not signing up for the McGangbang... stop sending me your toughest battles!

Total war: warhammer III is very fun, and very compatible with mods, BUT - too access said fun, it is recommended to have more races, to get the races in tww1 and tww2 you have to own the games as well, plus there are still a few races that you have to buy, PLUS PLUS there is usually still a few factions in the races you own that you also have to buy to play as. To buy all three games would be $180, so you should wait for them to go on sale, which happens around every major sale event (eg summer sale, winter sale, etc) if you want wood elves or ogres (races) they are about $20 separately not on sale (not all races are $20 but not far off), and factions that some races do not come with are about $9 not on sale (they come with 2 factions but you cant decide the 2nd one so no guarantee you will want the other faction) Anyway, i'm not saying you need all races or factions to have fun, i just want to make it clear how expensive it can get if you plan on playing other races. Still gets updates, a lot of fun and expansive mods, i love it, totally recommend it.

So you want me to buy your overpriced game with the bare minimum of content And then pay half the price of the game for *more* content you could have just added with release? No

They made sieges even worst . Quest battles are terrible . Immortal Empire campaign dont give achievements for finishing. The performance of the game is bad .

I like the setting a lot, playing with friends is fun, it ain't a bad game and I would probably love it if I had my mind not poisoned by other total war games. I just hate some of the fundamental design decisions in the battles, in the campaign, in UI and AI. I just always feel at least a little disappointed playing this game because I know how spectacular it could have been if some of these core ideas were more like in for example Shogun 2 or Medieval 2. Ain't no patch going to fix that tho.

good game, expands well on the previous games in terms of content. Biggest issue is loading times without an SSD will vary from machine to machine but it was taking sometimes 5 minutes to load in battles and start the campaign. If you don't have an SSD then you'll likely spend as much time loading as you will playing

If I had only one game to play for the rest of my life, it would be this one. So much replayability!

Too Much pay to play content. This game costs enough as it is so why do i need to pay hundreds more just to play a faction that looks cool and performs better. sounds like pay to win doesn't it?

This is a very fun game but it does stutter a lot. Get the DLCs on sale.

I love this game, but I can't play certain parts of it due to a loading error. Every time I try to play the prologue and get to the part where I first command an army, I get stuck at the loading screen. The same thing happens when I try to do the manual fights for the other campaigns. I'm not sure how to fix it for my laptop, but I do enjoy the game and have watched multiple videos of different people playing it.

Love this game so much, I wouldn't like to go into specific topics, but rather comunicate to the world that this game is so well polished, I personally haven't had any problems. I'm actually enjoying immortal empires mode more than anything, planning to buy some factions with the DLCs

i spent so much time playing this and i feel like im still learning each race and what they do, what are all the perks and unit types, theres just so much to it.

Ein Rittertraum in Pixel und Stahl – Vive la Bretonnie! otal War: Warhammer III ist nicht nur ein Spiel – es ist ein episches Gemälde aus Blut, Ruhm und Kavallerie. Als treuer Diener der Dame von Bretonnia war mein Weg vorgezeichnet: edel, gerecht, ritterlich. Und genau das liefert dieses Spiel. Die Kampagne ist überwältigend – politisch verzweigt wie ein Turnierbaum, taktisch tief wie der Gral selbst. Ich reite mit glorreich erhobener Lanze gegen Dämonen, Skaven und sogar diesen übertrieben gut organisierten Imperiums-Bürokraten. Jeder Sieg schmeckt nach Wein und Ehre, jeder Rückschlag nach altem Schwertstahl. Die Grafik? Ein digitaler Wandteppich. Die Musik? Als ob Barden auf Speed ein Orchester überfallen hätten. Und dann die Kavallerie – mon dieu! Noch nie hat es sich so befriedigend angefühlt, eine volle Ladung gepanzerter Edelleute in die Reihen der Feinde donnern zu lassen. Wenn 80 Lanzen gleichzeitig einschlagen, versteht sogar Khorne, was wahre Gewalt ist.

While it is a steep learning curve, it's been really fun and complex! I'm a TW fan and I love the Warhammer setting! Very addictive.....

On top of paying $100 (Australian) for TW Warhammer III you also need to buy the first and second one's to get the majority of the factions working!! What a rip off.

Good tactical battles, looks great and of course the lore is second to none.

Not the most stable on my Mac M1, but this game...this game is probably my most favorite TW of all time. Usually I would play a campaign of TW Shogun2, complete the campaign, enjoy it thoroughly and then move on to a different game. In WH3 as soon as I complete one campaign I start on another, then another, then another...