Total War: NAPOLEON – Definitive Edition
Fair · Strategy · 2010
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Reviews
- 92% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 256 MB DirectX 9.0c shader model 2b compatible GPU, 21 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Complete your Total War collection with this Definitive Edition of Total War: NAPOLEON, which includes all DLC and feature updates since the game’s release
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Strategy game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
August 2013 is where it bottomed out, at $3.74. It has been discounted 76 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 8 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 5 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 8 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 10 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition ($19.99, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats A Total War Saga: THRONES OF BRITANNIA ($19.99, scores 28).
Critics scored it 81. Players sit 11 points higher at 92 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 5 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2023 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 65 percent of the 784 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
It came out 16 years ago and 929 were still playing it at the last check.
The drop-off
91% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
929 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
Cite this score
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Total War: NAPOLEON – Definitive Edition scores 56/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). Length is estimated at 8 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/34030/total-war-napoleon-definitive-editionThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 13, price as of Sep 24.
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