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This fantasy grand strategy title, released in 2017, combines turn-based empire management with real-time tactical battles. Developed by Creative Assembly and published by Sega, it has garnered 87,774 Steam reviews with a 93% positive rating.
Overview
Total War: WARHAMMER II is a 2017 Action game developed by CREATIVE ASSEMBLY and published by SEGA. On Steam it has gathered 87,783 player reviews, 93% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $60. The pairing of developer CREATIVE ASSEMBLY with publisher SEGA is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 5.5 million to 12.9 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Total War: WARHAMMER II can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
87,783
Positive
93%
Steam appid
594570
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.05.5M to 12.9M
units (median: 9.2M)
≈ $189.5M to $442.2M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2017 | +30 |
| price_$60 | +15 |
| positive_93% | +10 |
| final NB | 105 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Total War: WARHAMMER II at roughly 5.5 million to 12.9 million copies, with a median around 9.2 million, derived from its 87,783 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $315.8M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $31.70Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $31.70 to $59.99, averaging $55.05 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $31.70 on 2026-05-18.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Tags
StrategyFantasyTurn-Based StrategyRTSGrand StrategyWarMultiplayerGames WorkshopActionTurn-BasedSingleplayerDark FantasyCo-opTacticalReal Time TacticsStory RichAtmosphericDwarfDinosaursGreat Soundtrack
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Total War: WARHAMMER II sold?
- indielist estimates Total War: WARHAMMER II has sold between 5,530,329 and 12,904,101 units (median 9,217,215), derived from its 87,783 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Total War: WARHAMMER II?
- Total War: WARHAMMER II was developed by CREATIVE ASSEMBLY and published by SEGA.
- When was Total War: WARHAMMER II released?
- Total War: WARHAMMER II was released in 2017.
- How many reviews does Total War: WARHAMMER II have on Steam?
- Total War: WARHAMMER II has 87,783 Steam reviews, of which 93% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Total War: WARHAMMER II within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, CREATIVE ASSEMBLY's other releases and SEGA's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Total War: WARHAMMER II sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Total War: WARHAMMER II page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.