Total War: WARHAMMER III

After just logging 1700 hours in this game I think it's finally time to give it a well deserved thumbs up. Still my favorite.

This is a fantastic way to have fun with friends in a strategic way absolute blast.Until you realize 90% of the games content is paid despite being a $60 game off the bat.

Abuse the steam summer sales for DLC. 100% worth it. Game has a lot of replay value. If you are not a fan of RTS elements then steer clear. I am a huge total war fan.

So.... After countless hours spent at this game. I can say it is at a much better place than it was back in 2022. This game, is a fantasy strategists DREAM! I have been playing since Warhammer II and after they included the Immortal Empires and KEEP improving it year after year, this game could be probably played indefinitely. The amount of races and factions to choose, the ABSURD size of the map, the real time fantasy battles and ofcourse, the endgame scenarios. And DON'T get me started about the mods, because the possibilites there on how to alter your experience are truly ENDLESS! First, if you buy just the game and none of the DLC, i can say you will be missing out but you can certainly choose and pick. The games basic campaign Realms of Chaos and the tutorial are heavily story focused and are certainly quite good. The tutorial is just great for any newcomer to the series and the Realms of Chaos is a great launch point for anyone starting this game. It is esentially a race for whoever gets to the finish line first (after getting four metaphorical parts of a key, in four disntinct and unique demon Realms). After you finish it once, its basically the same for the other lords here as well but that excluding the DLC lords. I think the MAIN lure and what will get you to spent hours and hours on those "One last turn" moments, will be the Immortal Empires campaigns. They are esentially a sandbox mode with the whole world (or at least most of its) as your canvas to paint with your factions colors but still.. Your own sort of narrative and motivations you give yourself here can make every campaign even more enjoyable. Let me put it this way, did you ever want to rule a human empire, uniting its separate states while fending off hordes of Chaos worshippers, demons, orcs and god knows what else while also tending to diplomacy with elves, dwarves and honorable French people (god, what a concept)? You can do so here with the power of the Empire. Did you ever want to just rule an unstoppable horde of orcish green tide, pillaging, plundering and fighting whatever comes in your way while your armies just keep growing in size? Then the greenskins and their WAAAAAGH is here for you. (pst, they also have massive stone giants, humongous spiders with arrow towers on their backs and lots of trolls!) Did you ever want to just mow down countless enemies who use primitive weapons like catapults, swords, bows and shields with the power of semi-modern technology? The Skaven have got your back-back with rotating minigun teams, sniper teams, litteral laser lightning canons, gas warfare with poison mortar teams and oh, how could i forget, A ****** NUKE!!! Yes, in this fantastical setting, the ratmen have the power of sort of modern technology and zero consideration for ethics or Geneva convention, cause that does not exist here. Oh and they also have huge rat abominations they send into battle alongside roided up ogre rat linebackers. What more could you want? <3 Speaking of ogres, why not making the world your ogre swamp?... Wait... That would be more Nurgle thing... Ok, scrath that, why not pick up your chunky boys and do a road trip around the world?? Ogres love three things - meat, gold and fighting, so go ahead and help the boys out! Leading the ogres was as fascinating, as it was funny. The utmost joy of a whole horde of them charging into battle is just incredible. It is just simple fun with them and Ogre is very much my spirit animal. Plus they also ride brutal behemoth like Stonehorns, savage and bigger rhinos and they also, most recently, got yetis! Whats not to love? :) Or how about a race of ancient lizardmen with dinosaurs? Lead your armies of cold lizards through jungles, while using huge T-Rex "like" dinosaurs, lizards riding Raptor "like" dinos and also flying Pteranodon "like" dinos. Unleash your Jurrasic Park against your enemies! They also have gargantuan lizards, charging Stegodons, walking hulking crocodiles and also ORBITAL SUN DEATH RAYS! And thats STILL all just covering the surface of how much stuff you can command here. If anything that i described here have got your attention, please, try it for yourself! If you are still undecided, there are also giant forrest Ents, both high elves (with several flavours of dragons to choose from for your armies) and dark elves (with not only dragons but also hydras and medusas), Undead pirates with walking boat transformers and leviathan hermit crabs, classic undead Vampire lords and their own kingdom and ofcourse a ****ton of demons to choose from. Be a protecter of the world, be its savier, be its conquerer, its tyrant, but no matter what, have fun doing it! ;)

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.

Bought this on release, and DLCs thereafter, and have obviously enjoyed the game immensely. After taking a break for a year I decided to finally go back and finish the tutorial. And it's still bugged. After the first battle in the tutorial, the vast majority of people cannot get it to continue and I am one of those. After $150 in base games plus DLC, and years of waiting, I still cannot finish the tutorial. It's honestly just complete disrespect to continue to monetize without fixing the most basic of an issue in the most crucial part of teaching the game to new players. If it get's fixed, or if someone wants to let me know a work around, I'll change my review. But it's just ridiculously frustrating to see this still existing after so much investment and time.

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

I bought it planning on maybe killing a few hours, having played Hero's Hour and noting that it was Babbies First Total War game, I'm now 27 hours in and spend maybe 40-50 quid on all the factions and lords I wanted in 3 days. Once you get in the groove it will eat time away from you.

Playing co-op in Total War: Warhammer 3 feels like trying to build an empire during an earthquake. Every 10–15 minutes, the game crashes—usually right after something important happens. Want to finish a battle? Crash. End turn? Crash. Blink wrong? Crash. And no, it doesn’t auto-save before it crashes. Why would it? That would be convenient. Instead, we get to replay the same turn like it's Groundhog Day: Chaos Edition. We've tried everything—file verification, mods off, different hosts, sacrificing Skaven to the Blood God—nothing works. For a AAA title in 2022, this level of multiplayer instability is flat-out embarrassing. I didn't buy a Warhammer Total War game to roleplay a QA tester. If you're planning to play co-op with a friend, I hope your friendship is strong enough to survive the repeated crashes, lost progress, and rising blood pressure. Ours is holding—for now. Fix. Your. Game.

Was playing yes-yes great co-op campaign with trusted allies-friends, only reason I spent precious warp-tokens on this-thing game! But now—RUINED! Cursed de-synchronisation errors, over and over, make it unplayable, yes-yes! Very annoying, very rage-inducing! FIX FIX or face claw-teeth, yes-yes!

It would be a great game but spending 80 bucks in micro transactions just to play all the factions is insane

The fact that they locked blood effects behind a paywall is reason enough for a bad review. But they also lock DLC behind the previous two titles of Total Warhammer... which are still fully priced at $70-80... On top of the predatory pricing, the game has some major flaws. For instance, there's a bug with gates that makes assaulting your enemy's capitals very frustrating at times. It's been years and they still can't fix game breaking stuff like that, yet they want to squeeze me for every single dollar? Not good.

At first launch the game was very good and enjoyable to play. However in 2025, coming back to the game I start a new campaign and halfway through I get game crashes, lagging on start of game, and cant continue on the rest of the campaign that I have saved. It prevents me from continuing so bad that it is unplayable. I' am upset about the fact that it happens as I enjoy the series, but its unplayable without patches to fix this issue.

this game is awesome!!! so many factions and things to do its confusing at first but this games tutorial and prologue sets you up right highly recommend!

Best iteration of the Total War series I have played - awesome unit variety makes all of the many many factions look and play differently and love the multiplayer campaign mechanics!

I still get rolled on easy difficulty <glances at playtime> and I love it.

This game is pretty hard and confusing with its mechanics, but once I figured them out its one of the funnest games I've ever played. I'm happy that this game meets all my expectations.

No voice in our ears but the maw We relish the sound of its call We'll plunder and feast On any man any beast Doesn't matter, we'll snack on them all

I am a former passionate Total war fan (circa 2008 Rome Total War) - I've played Total War Warhammer, Total War Warhammer II and now Total War Warhammer III (about 900 hours on this game and thousands on the second entry). I used to play VH/VH on WH2 but switched to N/N for WH3 as I haven't spent nearly as much time on the game. if you're a fan of the series and are considering the purchase of this game or it's DLC, then this review is written with you in mind. If you're new to the series - skip to Conclusion/TLDR at the bottom if, well, it's TLDR. 1) Launch: This entry to the series has been a disaster from day 1. There are tons of reasons why, but I suggest that you give some youtubers like LegendofTotalWar a watch (I'm not going to rehash it here). Honourable mentions to the poor launch performance, price increases for DLC and content cuts for DLC. Many of these issues remain. 2) Current state of the game: It has improved somewhat from launch (you can only go up from there) but is still nowhere near as enjoyable or interesting as WH 2. WH3 is inferior to it's predecessor in many ways. This is because 2.1) CA has actively been nerfing every fun game system. The wind of magic system and bonuses thereto? Changed for the worse. Trait farming? Pointless. Ranged units OP? Fuck'em. Make your lord/unit type a doomstack? Nah fam, how about some goblin ballistas reusing existing models? I could go on but I'll stop here, 2.2) CA has actively been nerfing every single fun mechanic for races from the first and second games. High elf factionwide bonuses that incentivises you to continue playing? Nerfed. Ikit's workshop? Nerfed. Vampire counts' free skellies? Nerfed. Not to mention even third game races being clearly inferior or unplayable on launch. There is a clear preference on the balance for DLC races - that's always been there. The difference from the balancing in game 2 however is that instead of introducing new races with powerful mechanics, they've proceeded to nerf every single race not covered by the currently released DLC to make them more powerful by comparison. I recently quit a Clan Skryre campaign in absolute disgust as a result of how they've nerfed Ratling gunners from WH2. 3) WH3's strengths The graphics are excellent The maps are stunning The music slaps in a very pleasant way. Sounds on the map and combat are well done and very impressive. Diplomacy rework (though copied from Three Kingdoms) is very well done and the way alliances are created and allied units recruited is visionary. All of the above facets of the game are excellent. 4) Conclusion (TLDR): Do not buy this game or it's DLC unless it's at a price level that you can afford to waste. Or literally set your money on fire. IT IS NOT WORTH IT'S COST, EVEN ON THE CURRENT 66% SALE (speaking as a peasant living in a third world country). Ain't that much fun either if I'm honest. If you're new to the series and can afford to spend some money, I can recommend WH1, WH2 and *most* of the DLC for those games (I'm looking at you Chaos Warriors). The state of play at the end of the second installment was excellent and very fun to play. You do miss out a bit on the journey of WH2 as it grew over the years, but it's still a solid recommend from me. PS. This review is pending future DLC releases and updates. If required, I will update this review for fairness. The game's trajectory (and CA's quite frankly) for the past 3 - 5 years suggest to me that this is highly unlikely though. Will have to find a new game to scratch my Total War itch :( Sorry for the rant and thank you for reading this review.

The game is very alluring, yet the gameplay is not convincing, or maybe just not my cup of tea anymore. I've played TW since the original Shogun and was a huge fan in my teens and early adulthood. I'm more of a history than Fantasy afficionado and had no prior knowldege of the WH setting. Yet the WH setting is what draws me to this game and tempts me to buy dlc (on sale), yet the gameplay turns me away. The giganric, trilogy spanning Immortal Empires world map is gorgeous: beautifully detailed, 288 factions across multiple races with a huge variety of units, leaders and magic. It's beautifully detailed But I think over the years, the TW formula has gone stale. Battles have become more and more fast paced, and requires too much fast paced micromanagment with the inflation of magicial abilities. Why design all these cool units and animate them when I never have the time to watch them in battle? This has become a thing for me. I wish I could have the AI fight and watch, with the ability to intervene at my leisure. Yet the AI is, after all these years, not competent enough, that I could watch this without a heart attack. Siege battles have been a problem so long, I think at this point you have to lose all hope when it comes to WH. So most of the time, it's autoresolve, which is again not working in the TW series, which has been real time battle first, turn based strategy second franchise. WH does not have enough meat on its bones in the campaign to compensate. It's no Paradox title. It offers variety since each race, and often each lord has its own gimmicks. Again, this is very alluring, yet the core campaign gameplay offers little depth. Again, the AI is as bad as ever, maybe even worse than in battles. Yet this is compensated by cheesy gameplay and massive cheating by the AI in higher difficulties to offer a challenge. The higher the difficulty, the more they will gang up on the human player. If you love this sort of challenge, you'll probaly find good fun and replayability. Yet again, the campaign suffers for being too fast paced. Basicially, it's all about the 20-40 turns, where you need to overcome the challenges above, if you mastered this phase, you'll likely be so strong that it will become tedious busywork. WIth this many factions, it becomes a fast paced Battle Royale, where factions die like flies and others are blobbing. Because of this, the campaign is long decided before you unlock the late game units, techs and magic which is unfortunate. This is the core problem of many strategy games: to make the endgame engaging. In WH:TW this is really pronounced. Depending on the difficulty level, it's more a master-your first 50 turns game than a deep, immersive strategy game. And so, every time I'm drawn to revisit this game, my initial enthusiasm is through the roof, and plummets within the first few hours. It's like a fly trap, luring you in to buy more dlc, only to leave you disapointed. CA is celebtraing 25 years of Total War, yet the company is at it's lowest point. There are few game series with this many titles, and at this point the only thing that keeps Creative Assembly afloat, are their shady business / dlc practices. The game franchise has been in need of a new engine and focus for so long. After heavy turbulences, they want to announce a new 'era of TW in December.' It may be their last chance to really turn the tide. As a longtime fan, I'm rooting for them.

This will sadly mark the final Total War game I purchase. After opening the game it quickly becomes apparent that they've sold you only the introduction of the game. Almost everything is locked away behind a secondary purchase. When you add up the listed prices of all of the content of this game, you're looking at more than $500. That is just shameful. As for the game itself? It's okay. It makes a couple of good updates from the previous games, like allowing you to make a settlement in any province (so far at least I haven't played enough to say it's that way for every faction). There have also been some added chaos magic mechanics added, which make the game feel cluttered. That's ultimately the keyword of what I think of this game, it's very cluttered. The couple of factions I've seen so far have new game mechanics that take several restarts to learn effectively. The map is huge, there's something like 280 sub-factions in play when the game begins, it a lot to take in. I can't say it's an outright bad game, but the insanity of charging $500 for all of the content is just too distasteful to say otherwise. It's a horrible direction for the industry to take.

Fix the constant crashing. Good step in speeding up load times, and downsizing the game files. However, I crash every other battle and lose saves.

I've been meaning to put more hours into this. I waited seemingly forever for the gigantic map of the mortal empires campaign so I should probably get on it. I just find the faction abilities a bit overwhelming to learn so I play High Elves since it's closest to historical TW games. I love the concept of 8 player co-op campaign with simultaneous turns and I think it should be a staple in all future TW games, historical or otherwise. Though personally I've only been in a 3 player campaign that wasn't completed. I ignore the DLC because it's astonishing how much there is and feels grubby. Oh and also, TW: Empire 2 please.

its a bit of money to get into so i recommend waiting on sales but this game is amazing and gives thousands of hours of game play, put CIV down and pick this up

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.

This game used to be great, huge sandbox map, different campaigns each time, with the mid and late game being exceptional came back to it after awhile, and its damn near unrecognizable, not only do they continue their predatory high DLC price, their updates have ruined the mid and late game once you get to a certain size by mid game, that's it, no one will challenge you, no one will get that strong. gone are the days of facing a united dark elf empire as a united high elf empire no more collecting the other legendary lords of the empire, the high elves, or the dark elves, 70% of them are dead by the midgame, and to confederate them takes far too long to be viable. they have made confederation near impossible for the ai and as a consequence, you end up fighting scattered weak rump states by mid to late game, and the "crisis" is just the same tired tricks the ai will get to a certain size and just stop, and that makes things incredibly boring a big aspect of the sandbox immortal empires I enjoyed in this and the previous titles was having rivals that gave me a good challenge, even losing massive wars at turns 200+ was fun, because it felt appropriate having to face united fronts of the races, it has ruined the enjoyment of the sandbox element of the game, there is simply no fun to be had when by turn 60, you're the largest empire in the game and no one will even come close and with how hard it is to confederate, the joy of gathering up the legendary lords of each race and facing a united foe with equally unique and varied lords and large territories just doesnt happen they lean far too much into the "live service" model, and inevitably factions you enjoyed playing will be unrecognizable, or changed to promote new overpriced DLC

Great Game! Classic Total War UI in the Warhammer Fantasy setting. Now we need a 40k version..

What an amazing game truly peak total war (except medieval 2 and Rome 2) has so many choices and ways to play and the workshop mods bring so much to the table! Are the A.I cheating bastards? Yes...yes they are Is it annoying to have to fight dwarfs (Chaos or otherwise)? HELL YES Is it cinematic and an absolute spectacle that is worth every bit of suffering? You're Goddamn right it is! If you don't know nothin about war-hammer I promise that this game don't care its truly the best fantasy total war game ever theres no lore to care about just pick the coolest looken Gitz in da pack and get crumpin

In the last couple days I've spent 50 hours of my life in this. Got tricked into buying the game because of the summer sale, 10 hours into the game I felt the necessity of playing more factions, so I bought Warhammer 1 & 2. 30 Hours in and I've already spent 40 usd on the 3 games & several DLCs. This is by far one of the best purchases I've ever done. By now, I feel like I still have tons and tons of new content to explore (sadly most of it is locked behind a dlc) and a lot of "old" content to master. So yeah, If you've played Total War before, eventhough you're not into fantasy (as I tought I was) give the game a try (preferably if it's on sale), you won't regret it.

So at almost 1.5k hours I'm here to say, this game is shockingly good. I have been enjoying this series since the first one released, and played it consistently. It has had it's high points and low points, but I think genuinely it has reached new heights for entertainment for the game. The price tag is a bit painful, but its on frequent sale and considering the amount of playtime you can potentially sink into this game its well worth it in my opinion.

Total War: WARHAMMER III (base game) is awesome if - you are very familiar with Total War mechanics - you own the 2 previous titles and their DLCs - you enjoy playing the sandbox mode Immortal Empire over the story campaign - you are looking for quality of life upgrade from the previous titles Other than the above, I would recommend against getting this game, because - you need to sell your kidneys (yes, plural, both of them) to unlock every playable factions/ lord. The business model is just predatory, in a weird way. If you wanna play a faction from previous title - you'll need to purchase the base game, and probably the DLCs. Oh yeah they also charge you for blood effect, the most infamous tradition of Creative Assembly. - The main campaign is just.. not fun. Maybe I am experiencing Total War fatigue, for I give up and start anew half way through. Conclusion - This game is a pass for me. It has deep lore, mechanics, fun battle, and cringey dialogues.

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

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.

90% of the time the game will not work your units wont fight or do anything and will just stand there and do nothing if you pay almost £50 for a game you would expect it to work properly they need to fix the ranged units so they actully attack overall balance of the game eg turn 3 on easy mode everyone has tier 4 units and you still have tier one and this not just once this has been every game i played so far i have played all the other total war games and they work perfectly but this one you need to buy all the other games to play half the groups in the game and then the game wont work

This game is bad. I've played many campaigns yet none of them felt as if I have won a war. Simply put, there is little thought put into this game. I have empathy for the devs who care about the franchise still. One can see how bad the game is by looking at how many DLCs come with it. Creative Assembly and their devs do not like making a RTS games. I cannot fathom how this product is put out without even resembling progress in the franchise. Nothing about this game is a step forward. Every "feature" that Warhammer total war allows the player to have is a repugnant spit in the face. It feels to me as if the devs made this game to deliberately make the player upset and neglected. If i had to put it more simply, this game is a tech demo. So many cut corners to save their time and money regardless of the stinky product they ship out. I believe Total War is the reason I got my history degree and why I enjoy the strategy genre. It saddens me to say that total war as a whole is a shell of what I thought it would blossom into. Still suffering from the same issues in earlier entries. Problems with the game: Ranged units must rotate to fire, lighting strike after lighting strike, armies cannot get close to each other on the campaign map, battles are 5 minutes long, the AI targets the player even though there are bigger threats around them, Soldiers in a battalion slow down so that the others can catch up, auto resolve is unparalleled in its stupidity, AI will not take trade agreements, siege battles show us that there is more to the settlement and most of the time it looks more defensible, armies will disappear when the battle goes on longer than 5 minutes, when attacking one guy with an entire army not a single one of your soldiers will land ONE hit, allies can take attrition in your territory, the endgame scenario spawns units from factions that were already destroyed, DLC is literally cut content that they make you pay for, battles look like a small skirmish, and my final problem with the game is that every total war game since warhammer one has been the same regardless if its historical or fantasy.

I was wanting to get into Warhammer and figured picking up the most recent Total War: Warhammer game would be a fun way to do it. It was on sale with all of its DLC. Awesome, let's do it! I get into the game and start up the tutorial. Being a grand strategy game, the tutorial takes way longer than 2 hours to complete (for me it was the 11 hours of playtime I've got with the game). Finish the tutorial, get into the main game, and find that despite buying what I thought was the complete edition, half the game's playable factions are still locked behind a paywall. Apparently I'm the dumbass for not just knowing that in order to ACTUALLY have the full game you need to buy Total War: Warhammer 2 and all of it's DLC. It certainly doesn't say that on the store page, so I have no idea how I was supposed to just know - or even assume - this as someone completely new to the franchise. So now I have a new hobby: submitting refund requests. Maybe some day it'll go through. I doubt it since the only response I get is the cookie-cutter "Derrrr it's been more than 2 hours!" response despite the fact that this game is straight-up misleading when it sells you a "complete" bundle and instead gives you a game with half the playable factions still locked behind a paywall.

I dabbled in Total Warhammer 2 before this, and while I had been excited for years to play the game, I just didn't click with it because of how obtuse learning to play it felt. So when I saw the rest of the series on sale, I really just bought it because I hoped one day I would get into them and everything would click, as I've wanted a good RTS since I last owned a PC. Booting up TW3, I expected much of the same, a great game that I just couldn't really understand, so when I got in and saw the "Prologue", I was quite intrigued, and while its not perfect, sometimes quests glitch forcing you to reload a previous turns save and just redo stuff, the tutorial absolutely opens up the game to newcomers like me and makes the rather incomprehensible mechanics far more enjoyable. I went from losing fights with superior armies, to learning to use the pause function (I am a noob, I very much don't care about making things more difficult than they already are) to perfectly micromanage my units to devastating effect. I've learned what the heroes are capable of, what to optimize for in early base building, how to think about my progress and plan for where I want to go. In short, the tutorial is everything it needs to be, and now my biggest problem is I play on a gaming laptop that, while perfectly capable of playing the game, gets a little toasty for my liking over the sort of play sessions I want to be sinking in. If you're interested in Total Warhammer, start with this one. You can buy the others and get all the content in the one game if you're so inclined, and the tutorial alone makes this the easiest one to get into that I've tried. It runs beautifully on my laptop (Asus ROG strix 18 2024) at all ultra settings, and best of all, its just fun. They really nailed the newcomer experience, and while parts of the tutorial are annoyingly handholdy, its a small price to pay for the variety of awesome factions you get to play with.

Game is good, Just sucks alot more races are locked behind a paywall, more so then Warhammer 2 which kills the vibe alittle.

Ive been on the fence for years as i dont normally play rts. Turns out Ive been missing out for years. this is the most fun ive had in a game.

When I buy a game I expect the game, not a bare bone husk where you need to spend more money to play any other race then a human.

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!

Fun game, really unfortunate that there is so much separate DLC content. I foolishly got one of the DLCs just to realize it imbalances the entire game in either mode. This is my last CA/Sega game.

Absolute masterpiece of a game. Look into strategies, and there is many layers of this game to unravel!

Three Kingdoms is better but the QoL on this makes it easier to co-op. Great game to put a bunch of time into if your into this sort of game. Desynch while in multiplayer still an issue especially as the game goes into end game.

I can't really criticize the game itself, but I'm honestly shocked, upset, and even angry that a game of this scale doesn't have a proper chat or voice system. Voice chat aside, it's almost laughable that in this day and age, a game like this lacks basic communication and interaction features. I really hope they fix this.

It's Total War Warhammer, I'm not sure why I waited so long to get it. I've loved all the other games in the series, I love this one. Immortal Empires is like one of the best computer strategy wargame ever made, because sometimes big is just plain better.

Crashes so much its almost impossible to play and I really really want to play

its super lore accurate and rich with deep gameplay and a nice 4x-sandbox feeling. -but the dlc policy wich spans over three games is so disgusting that i cant advertise for this kind of software.its a shame...