Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition
Eighteenth-century grand strategy with turn-based campaigns and real-time battles
CREATIVE ASSEMBLY, Feral Interactive (Mac), Feral Interactive (Linux) · Published by SEGA, Feral Interactive (Mac), Feral Interactive (Linux) · Released Mar 4, 2009
- Reviews
- Very Positive
- 91% of 38K
- Recent reviews
- Very Positive
- 86% of 101 in 30 days
- Playing now
- 1,523
- peak 24h 1,737
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Last update
- 3 years ago
- Apr 25, 2023
Free demo available, 1 playing it now: get the demo.
Metacritic: 90/100 (critic reviews)
What is Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition?
An eighteenth-century grand strategy game built around a turn-based campaign map and real-time land and naval battles. You manage trade, diplomacy, espionage, technology, armies, and fleets while expanding across Europe, India, and North America; the Definitive Edition includes all DLC, including the five-faction Warpath campaign.
For you if...
- +you enjoy long campaigns and real-time tactical battles
- +you want eighteenth-century warfare across several continents
- +you like managing trade, diplomacy, technology, and expansion
Not for you if...
- −you prefer short, tightly guided strategy campaigns
- −you dislike managing both campaigns and real-time battles
What players say
91% of 38,144 reviews are positive · 86% of 101 in the last 30 days
Players praise the large campaign map, long-term empire management, replayability, and naval battles. The most common complaints are frequent crashes, corrupted saves, and campaign-blocking bugs late in a campaign, along with weak AI and poor unit pathfinding.
Screenshots and trailer
Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition system requirements
As published by the developer.
Minimum
- Processor
- 2.4 GHz Intel® Pentium® or greater or AMD® Athlon® equivalent CPU
- Graphics
- 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible hardware accelerated video card with shader version 2.0 support, 256 MB video memory
- Memory
- 1 GB RAM (XP,) 2 GB RAM (Vista™)
- Storage
- 15 GB free hard disk space formatted as NTFS
PC version details
DRM, required accounts, controller support and Steam features.
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Keyboard and mouse
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- Achievements
- 30
- Steam features
- Family Sharing, Trading cards
Steam Deck: Playable
- Default controller config not fully functional
- Sometimes shows mouse, keyboard or non-Deck controller icons
- Some text entry requires manually opening the on-screen keyboard
- Some in-game text is small and may be hard to read
- Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck
Multiplayer and co-op
Languages
Text only: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Polish, Czech.
Tags
- Strategy
- Historical
- Military
- Grand Strategy
- Turn-Based Strategy
- War
- Tactical
- RTS
- Multiplayer
- Singleplayer
- Turn-Based
- Naval
- Real Time Tactics
- Action
- Great Soundtrack
- Turn-Based Tactics
Recent updates
- Apr 25, 2023 · Small update to Total War: EMPIRE
- Dec 9, 2014 · Now on Linux!
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