Total War: WARHAMMER II
BANGER · Action · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $59.99.
- Length
- 40.9h
- Value
- $1.47/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 5 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 460 1GB | AMD Radeon HD 5770 1GB | Intel HD4000 @720p, 60 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The forces of Lustria await your command. Choose your Legendary Lord, expand your armies, forge alliances in a strategic turn-based campaign, and unleash the might of your monstrous forces in fast-paced real-time battles.
What drives the score
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $14.99. That was May 2024. 65 discounts in the 9 years on record. They run about 66 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 6 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Total War: WARHAMMER ($59.99, scores 54) and Total War: WARHAMMER III ($59.99, scores 33).
Steam's global achievement data says about 11 percent of players ever finish it. On a 40.9-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 10 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2024 to September 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,221 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,715 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 54 percent of the 1,494 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 2 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 40.9 hours; clearing it takes 801, which is 20 times the campaign.
It came out 9 years ago and 1.5K were still playing it at the last check.
The drop-off
72% start to 11% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
1,464 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
due to my imac being very old my game runs on lower then 30fps takes half a hour to load into a campaign and start a battle and even with all of that its so fun bro amazing game recommend once i can afford a new pc prob gon start playing total war warhammer 3 gonna make a rewiew on that when i can play it cuz my imac cannot run it it cant even run tf2 ngl but ye peak game play if you have a pc thats not from 2015...
The campign with the intrest points and big fights is incroyable! Beats all the total war campigns! I still come back for this once a year!
Something I decided to do was follow suite of an idea that somebody I saw on Facebook has done, considering I've had well over 100 games on my Steam account and never touched a good chunk of them: 1. Spin a wheel 2. Whatever game it lands on, I must play for an hour and give an honest review of the game. This one definitely is a lot of fun, as it reminds me a lot of Civ 6 and XCOM 2. I like the battle mechanics and...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Total War: WARHAMMER II scores 87/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/594570/total-war-warhammer-iiThe 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 11, price as of Sep 24.
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