Total War: ROME II - Emperor Edition on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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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.

Total War: ROME II - Emperor Edition is a strategy, historical and turn-based strategy game developed by Creative Assembly and Feral Interactive and published by SEGA and Feral Interactive.
Released on September 02nd 2013 is available on Windows and MacOS in 9 languages: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Polish, Czech and Turkish.

It has received 88,173 reviews of which 73,559 were positive and 14,614 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.2 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 59.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for less on G2A.

The Steam community has classified Total War: ROME II - Emperor Edition into these genres:

Strategy Historical Turn-Based Strategy Grand Strategy Rome Tactical War Multiplayer Real Time Tactics RTS Turn-Based Singleplayer Online Co-Op Simulation Co-op Turn-Based Tactics Moddable Action Atmospheric Education

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows
Minimum
  • OS *: XP/ Vista / Windows 7 / Windows 8
  • Processor:2 GHz Intel Dual Core processor / 2.6 GHz Intel Single Core processor
  • Memory:2GB RAM
  • Graphics:512 MB DirectX 9.0c compatible card (shader model 3, vertex texture fetch support).
  • DirectX®:9.0c
  • Hard Drive:35 GB HD space
  • Additional:Screen Resolution - 1024x768

    Microsoft no longer supports Windows 10 or older versions
MacOS
• Processor: Apple M1 (8-core CPU)
• RAM: 8GB
• Graphics: Apple M1 (7-core GPU)
• macOS: 15.0
• Free Space: 50GB

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Dec. 2025
Sixteen hundred hours my little bro played on this game . I and he thought it was a great game. He even played it during the last month of his life. RIP little bro. I and my son will continue playing it in your memory. This is a great game folks, get it on sale, it won't disappoint.
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Nov. 2025
Rome II is peak Total War. The mix of huge battles, empire building and classic Roman chaos still hits perfectly even now. The game handles Roman history in a way that feels genuinely fun. The Marian Reforms shake up your armies, politics is always stirring trouble and the civil war hangs over the campaign like a storm you know is coming. For a video game, it handles units and historical shifts with surprising accuracy. Each faction feels distinct and the major moments of Roman history actually matter in gameplay. Battles feel massive and watching a Roman line hold under pressure never gets old. The campaign map is still one of the strongest in the series and it is dangerously easy to fall into the “one more turn” loop. When this game was announced in 2012, me and my friends were stoked. We sat on the school bus talking about how incredible it looked and how our PCs were probably not going to run it. Now it is 2025, I get home from work and I stick the settings on extreme quality, still enjoy diving into a custom battle or starting a fresh campaign. The magic has not worn off. Playing Rome II again only highlights how strong this era of Total War was. We need a return to this level of ambition, depth and overall quality.
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Nov. 2025
First get - MIs Tiny CITY Mod + TINY VFX. Makes the game look great. Then get the Divide et Impera mods and you will have 100 hours of conquering before you! Praise be to Mars!
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Sept. 2025
Old now but still slaps - the last good historical total war game - the next ones need to do this and better. More unit diversity, more resource and diplomacy mechanics, bump up the focus on cinematic battles rather than arcade, super fast ability and unit health driven battles, and pour more detail into the game. Major cities should be unique looking and playing, descriptions of tech, soldiers, and geography should have you pausing to read up on the history of what you're playing and feed into that change the outcome of history narrative again, and play around with the colours more - and let us look around the cities again, I miss that (looking at you Rome 1). This steam prompt for review has resulted in more of a wish list for what comes next, but Rome 2 is an ancient game and shouldnt be the go to game in the franchise for something historical but it is - Attila has terrible performance and shallower time period, Pharaoh/dynasty isn't an inspiring time period (maybe if I played it in the early 2000s when The Mummy series was peak cinema) and is too much like a CIV characters banter game than the gritty history early total war style that I'm after (I don't really like a lot of the sound and voice acting in the games from Rome 2 onward - excluding the warhammer games), and Thrones was executed poorly, despite having some great parts to it (as a Scottish person I was really disappointed that the Scots were Irish voice acted, dont scrimp on immersion). I'd give Rome 2 an 8/10, losing some points due to the bumpy and long road it took to make it a finished game and given that its taken so long to get it right, and since nothing matching it has come after I think its fair to point out the games shortcomings when compared to other great strategy or history themed games like crusader kings, Bannerlord, Manor Lords, or even Age of Empires who have moved on/started their franchises in positive ways - feeding their fan bases with everything they've wanted and who have then been happy to shower money at them as a reward, but not us OG Total War fans, who if like me have felt duped into paying for just about every game release since but never getting what we've been hoping for. Please CA do something good, I'm getting old and tired of waiting for you to do what is possible and that I and so many other 90s/2000s babies have been dreaming about since Rome 1. I dread to think that CA as a company and the Total War genre dies leaving only what has already been played for thousands of hours, but it's approaching that stage where I'd rather that and the hope that something new fills the void than continue to get fed dog dirt games that do nothing but build resentment to a once trusted studio.
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June 2025
How should i put this?? Total war rome II is worse for the severely autistic military history nerds, than crack or cocaine, in an amazing way; its suprinsingly hard to get bored of playing this 2013 game for some reason, especially with the content the dlcs unlock. It will take you a frankly stupid amount of time to experience everything the game has to offer, from ever factions perspective; no two saves are the same—never ever. The game itself is probably the gateway drug to autistic ancient military games, but playing it there is never an unfun moment, especially considering that it has workshop suport. IF you do try this game out, DEI (devide et impera) is a must have after the first 100 hours of getting to know the mechanics of the base game; the mod itself is probably the most comprehensive and detailed mod i have ever see; and i think it would be safe to call it total war Rome 3—an absolute must have. Due to the fact that singleplayer battles can be paused at any moment, and or slowed down, makes total war rome 2, the perfect intro to tactics and battle strategy. I would vividly recommend this magnum opus of a game, to every person who has a bonner for ancient military history.
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Total War: ROME II - Emperor Edition is currently priced at 59.99€ on Steam.

Total War: ROME II - Emperor Edition is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 59.99€ on Steam.

Total War: ROME II - Emperor Edition received 73,559 positive votes out of a total of 88,173 achieving a rating of 8.23.
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Total War: ROME II - Emperor Edition was developed by Creative Assembly and Feral Interactive and published by SEGA and Feral Interactive.

Total War: ROME II - Emperor Edition is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Total War: ROME II - Emperor Edition is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

Total War: ROME II - Emperor Edition is not playable on Linux.

Total War: ROME II - Emperor Edition offers both single-player and multi-player modes.

Total War: ROME II - Emperor Edition offers both Co-op and PvP modes.

There are 14 DLCs available for Total War: ROME II - Emperor Edition. Explore additional content available for Total War: ROME II - Emperor Edition on Steam.

Total War: ROME II - Emperor Edition does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Total War: ROME II - Emperor Edition does not support Steam Remote Play.

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Total War: ROME II - Emperor Edition PEGI 16
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8.2
73,559
14,614
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Developer
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Publisher
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Release 02 Sep 2013
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