Total War: THREE KINGDOMS
Fair · Action · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 80% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$39.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$11.9970% offFair
- Cost per hourS
- $0.89/hr
- Reviews▼
- 82% of 94,112
- Critics
- 85 players 3 lower
- Genre rank
- Top 7% Action
Holding it back: DRM, Reviews
Watch this gameOne alert at $11.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 45.1h
- To 100%
- 673h 14.9x the story
- Finish
- 4% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 99
Price and sales
- Sales
- 53 on record
- Typical cut
- 66% off
- Steam low
- $11.99 September 2025
- Sale every
- 47d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 1,921 now
- Recent reviews
- 77% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 1% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 86% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
88% start to 4% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
53 discounts in the 8 years on record, a median of 66 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 7 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 86 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: THREE KINGDOMS
Steam's global achievement data puts about 4 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 45.1-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 12 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written December 2025 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 63 percent of the 3,893 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (cosmetic); the score docks it lightly for that.
The main story runs 45.1 hours. Doing everything runs 673, 15 times as long.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 24 days ago.
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
One of my favorite Total War games of all time. Truly a unique gem in the series.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
maybe the best total war i've ever played. beautiful ui. wonderful diagetic interpretation of the usual total war mechanics
I love this game, but CA completely abandoned it and stopped working on promised DLC. Apparently they also quietly abandoned their 3K2.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Unite Ancient China under your rule through a thrilling blend of turn-based empire building and real-time battles. Use the Guanxi System and diplomacy to forge alliances, and build powerful armies with hundreds of unique infantry, cavalry and war machine units.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GTX 650 Ti 1GB|HD 7850 1GB|Intel UHD Graphics 620, 60 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Total War: THREE KINGDOMS scores 60/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/779340/total-war-three-kingdomsReviews 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 4, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.