Total War: ROME II - Emperor Edition
Worth it · Strategy · 2013
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $29.99.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.64/hr
- Reviews▼
- 88% of 88,952
- Critics
- 76 players 12 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 3% Strategy
Holding it back: Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 46.5h
- To 100%
- 252.4h 5.4x the story
- Achievements
- 188
Price and sales
- Sales
- 82 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $5.99 November 2024
- Sale every
- 52d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 2,490 now
- Recent reviews
- 87% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 3% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 92% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
84% start to <1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 82 times in the 13 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 3 percent. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 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: ATTILA ($19.99, scores 65).
More about Total War: ROME II - Emperor Edition
Critics scored it 76. Players sit 12 points higher at 88 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Of the 799 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 7 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2025 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 52 percent of the 1,379 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
46.5 hours to finish it, 252 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 5.4 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 24 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
What players say
I love everything about it really, the replayability, graphics, it runs great, love the time period and love the battles
2 more reviews
Running armies through with a stack of elephants isn't cheating, it's high level tactics. I don't care what French and Dutch people say about it, it's based, and I'm tired of pretending that it's not. 10/10
This game has so much replayability if you are a historic fan, straight up peak Grand Strategy, also you should really try the Divide Et Impera mod, that's where the heart of this game resides.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Emperor Edition is the definitive edition of ROME II, featuring an improved politics system, overhauled building chains, rebalanced battles and improved visuals in both campaign and battleEmperor Edition contains all free feature updates since its release in 2013, which includes bug fixes, balancing, Twitch.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 35 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Cite this score
Total War: ROME II - Emperor Edition scores 77/100 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/214950/total-war-rome-ii-emperor-editionReviews 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 Nov 5, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.