Total War: WARHAMMER III

The story opens in Kislev, where Ursun the Bear-God has fallen silent and the land is locked in endless winter. The game's director said the campaign map is twice the size of the second game's story map.

In August 2022 the trilogy came together in one game. The Immortal Empires mode put the lands and races of all three games on a shared map.

A year later players balked at the cost of Shadows of Change, a DLC with three lords, and many left negative reviews on the base game. In December 2023 Creative Assembly admitted the pack fell short of expectations.

Newcomers are in for a climb. Some reviewers warned of a steep learning curve, and one grew tired of a harsher auto-resolve that forces many battles to be fought by hand. Critics give it 86 on Metacritic, and players leave 72% positive of 107,254 reviews. In our Recommended Score it ranks #451 of 4,736 games.

Enjoyed it? Try Total War: WARHAMMER II, where each race gets its own story within the main campaign, and Total War: THREE KINGDOMS, set in China in 190 AD, where you pick a mode based on the novel or a more faithful one based on the historical records.