Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition

Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition

Fair · Strategy · 2006

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.

ReviewsS
96% of 36,707
Genre rank
Top 8% Strategy

Holding it back: Cost per hour, est. length, Length unknown

Watch this gameOne alert when a sale makes it a BANGER.

Price and sales

Sales
78 on record
Typical cut
75% off
Steam low
$3.74 January 2013
Sale every
56d last October 2026
Lowest now $4.69 at Fanaticalall-time low $0.99 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
1,974 now
Recent reviews
90% 30 days
Cheaper than
7% of its genre
Better reviewed
99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story

The value story

78 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 8 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 8 percent. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Total War: ATTILA ($19.99, scores 65) beats it on value, while it beats A Total War Saga: THRONES OF BRITANNIA ($19.99, scores 28).

More about Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition

This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 12 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2022 to August 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,604 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,177 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 73 percent of the 1,023 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.

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 we assumed
  • 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.
Raising the score
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
MonetizationNone
No in-game purchases. Paid DLC exists and is not docked
Holding it back
Cost per hour, est. length~$2.50/hr
Estimated: no length in our data yet
Length unknownNo verified $/hr
No length in our data yet, so the biggest driver can't be verified. A heavy dock until it is
For context
Refunds12 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

About the game

Spanning the most turbulent era in Western history, your quest for territory and power takes you through Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and even onto the shores of the New World.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

No data upstream: length (HowLongToBeat), critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition scores 62/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. 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/4700/total-war-medieval-ii-definitive-edition
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. 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.

Details

DeveloperCREATIVE ASSEMBLY
PublisherSEGA
GenreStrategy
Released2006
Players1.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate