Total War: WARHAMMER III

Total War: WARHAMMER III

Skip · Action · 2022

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The verdict

SKIP IT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

It scores 37, under the fair line, at $59.99.

Cost per hour▼
$1.87/hr
Reviews▼
72% of 151,234
Critics
86 players 14 lower
Genre rank
Top 32% Action

Holding it back: DRM, Reviews

Why
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Time and effort

Main story
32h
To 100%
710.3h 22.2x the story
Finish
27% reach the ending
Achievements
138

Price and sales

Sales
36 on record
Typical cut
60% off
Steam low
$8.99 May 2026
Sale every
38d last October 2026
Lowest now $8.39 at Fanaticalall-time low $7.75 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
15,425 now
Recent reviews
79% 30 days
Cheaper than
1% of its genre
Better reviewed
42% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

76% start to 27% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

Across all 36 discounts in the 6 years tracked, the median cut is 60 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.

Its score puts it in the top 32 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Total War: WARHAMMER II ($59.99, scores 86) beats it on value, while it beats A Total War Saga: TROY ($19.99, scores 31).

More about Total War: WARHAMMER III

Critics scored it 86, but players land 14 points lower at 72 percent. The reviews were kinder than the room.

Steam's global achievement data puts 27 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18. 10 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2026 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 39 percent of the 4,260 reviews written there were positive, against 72 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.

32 hours to finish it, 710 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 22 times the campaign.

151,234 reviews stand behind that percentage.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 23 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Replayability~192h to replay
Co-op and replay time. The value score counts hours well past the 32h main story
Engagement27% finish
How far players get (achievements). It can only add points
MonetizationNone
No in-game purchases. Paid DLC exists and is not docked
Holding it back
Cost per hour$1.87/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
DRMDenuvo
Denuvo copy protection, a small friction discount
For context
Refunds10 of 800 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

The game was good, but Sega/Creative Assembly have utterly ruined the series. Recently they made changes to make it 'more difficult' so they used ai for the how the other factions react. Now, if you start a war on 1 border, you are guaranteed to have another faction attack your furthest away border. Seems to happen every time, where there are not direct factions that oppose you, they spawn in a rogue faction or have...
LogoesNot recommendedafter 631hOct 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Got the game because I saw dwarves, skaven, the empire and greenskins and thought they looked fun. Turns out they are all dlc locked and for $60 the best a AAA studio can do is dollar store russians and demonic sex offenders and if you want any of the actually enjoyable content of the game you already paid for you're going to have to pay a lot more for dlc to get what was advertised. Thank goodness for steam's...
DodoByurdNot recommendedafter 3.0hOct 2026Read on Steam
Don't start on easy with the recommended faction. Start on the hardest difficulty, but maintain the ability to save and load. Slam your head directly into the brick wall. Figuring out a new game with your favourite faction is precious. Make it count by challenging yourself. Try everything.
He Left His Family Behind!Recommendedafter 1094h278 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

The cataclysmic conclusion to the Total War: WARHAMMER trilogy is here. Rally your forces and step into the Realm of Chaos, a dimension of mind-bending horror where the very fate of the world will be decided. Will you conquer your Daemons… or command them?
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 900/AMD RX 400 series | Intel Iris Xe Graphics, 120 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

Cite this score

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Total War: WARHAMMER III scores 37/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1142710/total-war-warhammer-iii
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players-14
Critics86
Players72
Critic darling, cooler with players. Read recent reviews before buying.
Metacritic critics · 151,234 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperCREATIVE ASSEMBLY
PublisherSEGA
GenreAction
Released2022
Players3.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements138