Total War: WARHAMMER II is a strategy game of titanic proportions. Choose from four unique, varied factions and wage war your way – mounting a campaign of conquest to save or destroy a vast and vivid fantasy world.
This is a game of two halves – one a turn-based open-world campaign, and the other intense, tactical real-time battles across the fantastical landscapes of the New World.
Play how you choose – delve into a deep engrossing campaign, experience unlimited replayability and challenge the world in multiplayer with a custom army of your favourite units. Total War: WARHAMMER II offers hundreds of hours of gameplay and no two games are the same.
World-Spanning Conquest
Engage in statecraft, diplomacy, exploration and build your empire, turn by turn. Capture, build and manage teeming settlements and recruit vast armies. Level up Legendary Lords and Heroes and arm them with mythical weapons and armour. Negotiate alliances or declare Total War to subjugate any that stand between you and your goal.
Epic Real-Time Battles
Command thousands-strong legions of soldiers in intense tactical battles. Send forth ferocious, twisted monsters, fire-breathing dragons and harness powerful magic. Utilise military strategies, lay ambushes, or use brute force to turn the tide of combat and lead your forces to victory.
The second in a trilogy and sequel to the award-winning Total War: WARHAMMER, Total War: WARHAMMER II brings players a breath-taking new narrative campaign, set across the vast continents of Lustria, Ulthuan, Naggaroth and the Southlands. The Great Vortex Campaign builds pace to culminate in a definitive and climactic endgame, an experience unlike any other Total War title to date.
Playing as one of 8 Legendary Lords across 4 iconic races from the world of Warhammer Fantasy Battles, players must succeed in performing a series of powerful arcane rituals in order to stabilise or disrupt The Great Vortex, while foiling the progress of the other races.
Each Legendary Lord has a unique geographical starting position, and each race offers a distinctive new playstyle with unique campaign mechanics, narrative, methods of war, armies, monsters, Lores of Magic, legendary characters, and staggering new battlefield army abilities.
Shortly after launch, owners of both the original game and Total War™ WARHAMMER II will gain access to the colossal third campaign. Exploring a single open-world epic map covering the Old World and the New World, players may embark on monumental campaigns as any owned Race from both titles.
Conquer the world, together
Each of the Races in Total War™ WARHAMMER II will be playable in single and multiplayer campaign, plus custom and multiplayer battles. As the two Legendary Lords for each race all have their own unique campaign start positions, you’ll be able to play a 2-player co-op campaign as the same race. If you own both parts 1 and 2, you’ll be able to play in multiplayer as any of the races you own.
The World of Total War: WARHAMMER II
Millennia ago, besieged by a Chaos invasion, a conclave of High Elf mages forged a vast, arcane vortex. Its purpose was to draw the Winds of Magic from the world as a sinkhole drains an ocean, and blast the Daemonic hordes back to the Realm of Chaos. Now the Great Vortex falters, and the world again stands at the brink of ruin.
Powerful forces move to heal the maelstrom and avert catastrophe. Yet others seek to harness its terrible energies for their own bitter purpose. The race is on, and the very fate of the world will lie in the hands of the victor.
Prince Tyrion, Defender of Ulthuan, guides the High Elves in their desperate efforts to stabilise the vortex as it roils above their home continent.
Atop his palanquin-throne, the Slann Mage-Priest Mazdamundi directs his Lizardmen war-hosts as they surge northward from Lustria. He, too, is intent on preventing cataclysm, though the methods of The Old Ones must prevail.
The Witch King Malekith and his sadistic Dark Elf hordes spew forth from Naggaroth and their labyrinthine Black Arks. He tastes great weakness in the vortex – and great opportunity in its demise.
Meanwhile the Skaven, led by Queek Headtaker, stir in their foetid subterranean tunnels. There they multiply unchecked and look hungrily towards the surface, their motives obscured. The time for revelation is nigh…
Four races, four outcomes, a single goal: control of the Great Vortex, for good or ill.
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User Reviews
Very Positive
100 user reviews
88%
Positive
User #287338english
1,710 hrs at review
Not Recommended
I do not agree with your EULA 3rd party crap I want a refund. BY the way this was one of the most predatory most of that DLC could have been sold with the game almost a 200 $ game dlc but you and the ELUA think that is not ownership then you can give me a refund seeing you changed contact and i don't agree lol DLC included
User #223589english
282 hrs at review
Not Recommended
not steamdeck approved, crashes after every battle
User #742035english
22 min at review
Not Recommended
This game was very disappointing. The warfare is all with medieval technology making it practically the same as historical total war games. It seems that the whole total war series is just cookie cutter games with only superficial differences, like your girlfriend changing her dress and her name and then saying you've got a new girlfriend. I had played total war Rome II prior and the gameplay in this game felt identical. I completely lost interest in the total war series after noticing this.
User #686708english
59 hrs at review
Recommended
I love the Skaven. Eat my green rays, you stupid elves.
Also I agreee with the King of Limbo, the fact that there is a pirate faction but no sea shanty in game is just soul crushing.
Play it and embrace the warpstone-rock, yes yes!
User #256566english
43 hrs at review
Not Recommended
Thousands of Hours accross all of Total War franchise. This game sucks Total Ahh. Unforgivable mechanics like, unit upkeep not updating/adjusting to unit amount are a good representation of the elementary level of shits they gave while making this game.
Don't waste your time re-learning a worse version of Total War. For the love of god, they don't even update/adjust unit upkeep based on troop count. Making troop replenishment vital, but you don't replenish troops during turns, unless inconsistent factors are hit (AFTER 15 TURNS, THE GAME DIDN'T TELL ME WHY UNIT REPLENISHMENT JUST WASN'T WORKING MOST TIMES, PLEASE EXPLAIN WHAT THE GAME COULDNT EASILY DO, AND COPE BELOW). Mount and Blade BannerLord 2 unit upkeep adjust with unit count, when they aren't even uniform soldiers but the excel spreadsheet of this game can't keep that up. lol
This game was fuckin gehh, because I was excited to play it, so just don't have expectation or compare it to any other TOTAL WAR games.
User #004526english
41 hrs at review
Recommended
This game is meh.
PLEASE make a new empire total war, the dlc for it can be the victorian wars.
User #105730english
18 hrs at review
Not Recommended
the war hammer games apparently force you to keep the older obsolete games in order to main content for the new ones...
User #288683english
16 hrs at review
Recommended
cool to smash rats and whatnot
User #295342english
1,098 hrs at review
Recommended
Always loved total war, Total war with warhammer fantasy battles is like a dream come true. The only downside is the diplomacy system was tuned down quite a bit and the focus is far greater on battles. which makes for fun faster style play. Easier for new players to get into.
User #720015english
90 hrs at review
Recommended
Warhammer 2 is a pretty decent addition to the Total War Warhammer Series. It has cool Factions, a decent Map, and pretty decent Campaigns. And while I do prefer the first game for it's Map and Factions, I will say that Warhammer 2 is still a pretty solid buy if you like the Warhammer and Total War Franchises. (Especially if you get it on sale)
Also, if you own both Warhammer 1 & 2, this game has a Special Game Mode called "Mortal Empires", which combines both games' Maps and Factions into one large map. On this large map, you can play a faction from either game, including DLC Factions which you bought for Warhammer 1. Which is a decent feature in my book.
Graphics: 2GB Nvidia 680MX, 2GB AMD R9 M290, 1.5GB Intel Iris Graphics 540 or better (see notes for more details)
Storage: 60 GB available space
Additional Notes: The game is officially supported on the following Macs. To check your Mac model and when it was released, select About This Mac from the Apple menu on your menu bar.
* All 13" MacBook Pros released since 2016
* All 15" MacBook Pros released since Late 2013 with a 2.3GHz processor or better
* All 21.5" iMacs released since Late 2017
* All 27" iMacs released since Late 2013 with a 2GB graphics card or better (1)
* All 27" iMac Pros released since Late 2017
* All Mac Pros released since Late 2013
1. Late 2012 models with a 2GB Nvidia 680MX graphics card are also supported.
Please note for your computer to meet the minimum requirements it must match or better all elements of the listed spec. For more detailed specifications check the Feral website. ———
The following Macs are capable of running the game but do not consistently meet the standards required for official support.
* All 15" MacBook Pros released since Late 2013
* All 21.5" iMacs released since Late 2013 with a 2.7GHz processor or better.
PRE-macOS 11 USERS:
Players using a version of macOS before 11 can access a compatible version of the game via the Beta tab in the game’s properties window, accessed by right clicking the game name in the Library. Select the ‘mac_retail_1.1.5 - macOS 10.15.7 or older only' branch for a version that is compatible with 10.14 up to 10.15.7.
Minimum
Minimum:
OS: Ubuntu 18.04 64-bit
Processor: 3.4GHz Intel Core i3-4130
Memory: 6 GB RAM
Graphics: 2GB Nvidia GTX 680 or better, 2GB AMD R9 285 (GCN 3rd Gen) or better
Storage: 60 GB available space
Additional Notes:
* Requires Vulkan
* Nvidia graphics cards require driver version 396.54 (tested)
* AMD GPU's require Mesa 18.1.5 or better (tested)
* Intel GPU's are not supported at time of release
FAQ
How much does Total War: WARHAMMER II cost?
Total War: WARHAMMER II costs £9.99. Currently 75% off!
What are the system requirements for Total War: WARHAMMER II?
Minimum: Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 64Bit Processor: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo 3.0Ghz Memory: 5 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 460 1GB | AMD Radeon HD 5770 1GB | Intel HD4000 @720p DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 60 GB available space Recommended: Recommended: OS *: Windows 7 / 8 (8.1)/ 10 64Bit Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-4570 3.20GHz Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 4GB | AMD Radeon R9 290X 4GB @1080p DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 60 GB available space
What platforms is Total War: WARHAMMER II available on?
Total War: WARHAMMER II is available on Windows PC, macOS, Linux.
Is Total War: WARHAMMER II worth buying?
Total War: WARHAMMER II has 88% positive reviews from 100 players. Metacritic score: 87/100.
When was Total War: WARHAMMER II released?
Total War: WARHAMMER II was released on Sep 28, 2017.
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