Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition (Steam Game) Steam logo

Release DateMar 4, 2009
Price$ 24.99  Top 5%
Steam Rating (Steam Purchases / All)89.4% (very positive) Top 30% / 90.6%  Top 20%
Steam DB Rating (Steam Purchases / All)87.3% Top 10% / 88.9%  Top 4%
Reviews (Steam Purchases / All)17.6K  Top 2% / 32.3K  Top 1%
Curators311 reviews  Top 2%
Median Play Time143.6 hours  Top 1%
Play Time per Dollar5.8 hours  Top 1%
Followers48.2K  Top 3%
Owners± 3.6M  Top 1%
Copies Sold± 1.7M  Top 1%
Gross Revenue ($)± 16.5M  Top 2%

Rating and Reviews (Monthly)
  

Chart showing the monthly evolution of Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition steam rating, positive and negative reviews.

Here you can see Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition's Steam rating and reviews between October 2010 and December 2023. Steam's rating is varying from 100% (November 2010) to 89.9% (October 2019).

With its 32.3K reviews Top 1%, Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition is indisputably a major AAA level success. The November 2019 peak suggests that there was a major update or discount.

Review Languages
 

Donut graph showing review languages for Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition and the proportion of players they represent.

This donut chart displays the languages of Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition's reviewers. The most popular language is English (57%), followed by Turkish (7%). The player's languages are well diversified, with 28 different languages appearing in the reviews. The game is available in 8 languages, which is great.

Time Played

Chart displaying Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition percentiles of time played for positive, negative, and early access reviews.

This chart displays the time played in Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition, comparing positive and negative reviews. Notice how the time in game reaches a stellar 439 hours in the 80th percentile.

The median play time for the negative reviews is 2.6 times less than the median for positive reviews. Some Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition players left negative reviews after playing for a long time (more than 265 hours for the top 20%), it can be a sign that a part of the fanbase was displeased about the evolution of the game and decided to review bomb it. The Players' feedback section might give some insight about that.

Players' Feedback

Game's StrengthsGame's Weaknesses
  • big map
  • many factions
  • interesting economy
  • research tree
  • many mods
  • 3D Naval Combat
  • hand-to-hand fight on decks
  • five new playable factions
  • immensely satisfying naval battles
  • scale of the game
  • unit variety is poor
  • most factions felt the same
  • dumb AI
  • some factions need more regions
  • Warpath campaign is badly cut down
  • Eastern factions are locked out of all sorts of content
  • worst diplomatic AI
  • game doesn't do enough for history fans
  • naval battles are slow
  • many bugs

It's important to understand that this list of positives and negatives is not an unbiased evaluation of the game. Its purpose is to support developers in understanding what their players want. The game's rating of 89.4%  Top 30% should be taken into account when assessing them.

Take into account that list was generated using AI on a small sample of Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition's Steam review data, it is not meant to be exhaustive. Additionally, remember that not all issues need to be fixed, sometimes the best approach is to communicate better to manage the player's expectations.

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