Total War: SHOGUN 2
Worth it · Strategy · 2011
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $8.99.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.33/hr
- ReviewsA
- 90% of 70,329
- Critics
- 90
- Genre rank
- Top 2% Strategy
Holding it back: Recent reviews
Why
Recent reviews trending down: 45% over the last 30 days against 90% all-time.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 27.5h
- To 100%
- 216.1h 7.9x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 74 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $2.99 June 2024
- Sale every
- 55d last August 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 0 now
- Recent reviews
- 45% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 3% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 95% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $2.99. That was June 2024. It has been discounted 74 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 8 weeks apart.
Its score puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition ($19.99, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats Total War: NAPOLEON – Definitive Edition ($19.99, scores 56).
More about Total War: SHOGUN 2
Players rate it 90 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 45 percent. Something recent has soured the room. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 59 percent of the 1,366 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
27.5 hours to finish it, 216 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 7.9 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- 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
What players say
I bought this game to conquer feudal Japan. Instead, feudal Japan conquered me. 10/10, would sell my katana collection (that I now own) again.
2 more reviews
I really like the game but I have one complaint, the modding experience genuinely sucks. The mod manager barely explains load order, conflicts, dependencies, or why a mod is marked as outdated. You add one or two mods, launch the game through five different menus, select DirectX 11, and then the game immediately closes with no error message. Was it the new mod? The load order? A conflict? An outdated mod? Who knows...
The last good Total War, the precipice from which the entire franchise fell. Rome 2 was a nail in a coffin, Three Kingdoms was a mass grave, and the Warhammer series was an ossuary. Total War is long dead and this game contains the last bones worth observing.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Total War: SHOGUN 2 is the perfect mix of real-time and turn-based strategy gaming for newcomers and veterans alike.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 256 MB DirectX 9.0c compatible card (shader model 3), 32 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Total War: SHOGUN 2 scores 80/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/201270/total-war-shogun-2Reviews 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.