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Total War: THREE KINGDOMS is the first in the award-winning series to recreate epic conflict across ancient China. Combining a gripping turn-based campaign of empire-building & conquest with stunning real-time battles, THREE KINGDOMS redefines the series in an age of heroes & legends.

Release DateMay 23, 2019
Price$ 59.99  Top 1%
Steam Rating (Steam Purchases / All)82.2% (positive) / 82.5%
Steam DB Rating (Steam Purchases / All)81% Top 20% / 81.4%  Top 20%
Reviews (Steam Purchases / All)55.9K  Top 1% / 83.5K  Top 1%
Curators236 reviews  Top 2%
Median Play Time132.8 hours  Top 1%
Play Time per Dollar2.2 hours  Top 10%
Followers488K  Top 1%
Owners± 2.9M  Top 1%
Copies Sold± 1.9M  Top 1%
Gross Revenue ($)± 71.8M  Top 1%

Rating and Reviews (Monthly)
  

Chart showing the monthly evolution of Total War: THREE KINGDOMS steam rating, positive and negative reviews.

This graph shows Total War: THREE KINGDOMS's Steam rating and reviews between May 2019 and December 2023. Steam's rating is in a narrow range going from 86.2% (July 2019) to 82.3% (October 2019).

With 83.5K reviews Top 1%, Total War: THREE KINGDOMS is definitely a major AAA level success. The chart suggests a long tail distribution, which could mean that the game was promoted at laucnch but that there were no more marketing, update or major discounts after that point.

Review Languages
 

Donut graph showing review languages for Total War: THREE KINGDOMS and the proportion of players they represent.

This donut graph displays the languages of Total War: THREE KINGDOMS's Steam reviews. The most popular language is Simplified Chinese (56%), followed by English (24%). There is a healthy diversity in the review languages, with 29 different languages represented. The game is translated in 13 languages, which is nice.

Time Played

Chart displaying Total War: THREE KINGDOMS percentiles of time played for positive, negative, and early access reviews.

This chart displays the number of hours played in Total War: THREE KINGDOMS depending if the reviewer left a positive or a negative review. Notice how the time in game reaches a stellar 379 hours in the 80th percentile.

The median play time for the negative reviews is 1.6 times less than the median for positive reviews. Some players have left a negative review after playing a significant amount of time (317 hours in the 80th percentile) which could mean that a part of Total War: THREE KINGDOMS's fanbase was unhappy about an update and review bombed the game. The Players' feedback section might give some insight about that.

Players' Feedback

Game's StrengthsGame's Weaknesses
  • great ideas
  • strong personalities
  • engaging battle scenes
  • modding community
  • actual battleground events
  • hours of gameplay
  • historical mode
  • personal drama
  • building sense
  • thematic changes
  • bland combat
  • terrible UI
  • tedious overworld
  • slow turns
  • little done
  • confusing names
  • not as good as Medieval 2
  • limitations of total war games
  • linear tech tree
  • struggles to be a grand strategy game

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 score of 82.2% should be considered while evaluating them.

Please keep in mind that this list was AI-generated with only a statistical sample of Total War: THREE KINGDOMS's review data that Steam provides. You don't always need to solve every issue. What some players hate might be what your fanbase loves.

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