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4,234.5 hours at review1,082 people found this helpful
Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition
For a medieval campaign built around city management, diplomacy and real-time battles, this offers a focused strategy experience. Weigh ≈ $2.54 from 
GOG against your plans: single-player sits alongside multiplayer options, including a two-player hotseat campaign on one computer.
Controller support is not specified, which is worth considering before purchase. If you would rather wait for another opportunity, an announced Steam sale window may be one, but it does not promise a discount. At $4.99 from GOG, you can compare the current price with Steam; the next announced Steam sale window is Dec 17, 2026 – Jan 4, 2027, with no guaranteed participation or discount.
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01About Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition
Lead medieval realms through campaigns, manage cities and armies, and decide battles in real time. Diplomacy and conquest carry the campaign across Europe, Africa and the Middle East, reaching the New World. Steam player reviews: 95%% positive from 27,459 reviews.
Credits
Composer
Jeff van Dyck
Developer
CREATIVE ASSEMBLY · Feral Interactive (Mac) · Feral Interactive (Linux)
Publisher
SEGA · Feral Interactive (Mac) · Feral Interactive (Linux)
Lowest recorded in 36 months
$4.462025-06-26 · GameBilletBase game · same records as the chart above; USD history, not a regional Steam low.Language support
| Language | Interface | Subtitles | Audio |
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| English | Yes | — | Yes |
| French | Yes | — | Yes |
| Italian | Yes | — | Yes |
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| Language | Interface | Subtitles | Audio |
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| German | Yes | — | Yes |
| Spanish | Yes | — | Yes |
| Czech | Yes | — | Yes |
| Hungarian | Yes | — | Yes |
| Polish | Yes | — | Yes |
| Russian | Yes | — | Yes |
Steam PC edition data · 2026-10-15
02Before you buy
Play modes
The Steam PC version lists single-player and multiplayer. Kingdoms also describes multiplayer maps and a two-player hotseat campaign on the same computer.
Campaign strategy
Campaign play combines real-time battles with city development, army recruitment, diplomacy and expansion across several regions.
03Frequently asked questions
What do you do in the game?
Campaigns range across Europe, Africa and the Middle East, reaching the New World. You manage cities and armies and fight real-time battles.
What does Kingdoms add?
Kingdoms adds four campaigns: Britannia, Teutonic, Crusades and New World, alongside new factions, units and territories.
What multiplayer modes are described?
The description lists multiplayer battles for up to eight players and a two-player hotseat campaign on the same computer.
Popular Steam reviews
Native-language selection · 10 reviewsSelected helpful reviews in this language show both recommendations and criticisms. This selection does not represent the overall positive rating; opinions reflect the version reviewed.
Not recommendedSteam player
⚠️ Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition — A Classic Strategy Game Weighed Down by Technical Issues While Total War: MEDIEVAL II remains a beloved strategy game for many, the Definitive Edition often leaves players frustrated with technical problems and a lack of modernization. Despite the improvements in visuals and the addition of expansions, many of the core issues from the original game remain, making it a challenging experience for both newcomers and veterans alike. 🖥️ 1. Outdated Technical Performance One of the primary complaints about MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition is its poor optimization. Even on modern hardware, players experience low frame rates, crashes, and long loading times. The game feels like it's stuck in a past era, with performance issues that significantly detract from its enjoyment, especially compared to more modern strategy games. ⚙️ 2. Lack of Significant Improvements in the Definitive Edition While the Definitive Edition promises an enhanced experience, there are few meaningful updates to the core gameplay. The visual improvements, while welcome, don’t drastically change the experience. The game still feels outdated, and the lack of quality‑of‑life changes, like better unit controls or AI improvements, makes it feel like a poorly executed remaster rather than a full-fledged update. 🧩 3. AI Issues and Unbalanced Difficulty The AI in MEDIEVAL II is often criticized for being predictable and sometimes outright dumb, especially in battles where enemy units take strange actions. This results in easy victories in some situations, but also in frustrating moments where the AI simply doesn’t perform as expected. The game’s difficulty spikes unpredictably, making it difficult to gauge how to approach different factions, leading to frustration rather than excitement in longer campaigns. 🕹️ 4. Lack of Modern Features and Updates Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition lacks many of the modern features found in newer Total War titles. No mod support is available in the same way as with more recent entries, and multiplayer options are limited. This results in a game that feels out of step with its competition, offering a less flexible, less enjoyable experience in comparison to modern, more feature-rich strategy games. (gamingbolt.com ) 🧱 5. Lack of Clear Direction for Newcomers The steep learning curve and complex interface can overwhelm new players. The tutorials are insufficient, and the game’s interface is clunky, making it difficult to manage armies and settlements effectively. Many newcomers find themselves lost in the intricacies of the game, which can lead to frustration and a lack of motivation to continue playing. 🏁 Final Verdict — A Mixed Remaster with Technical Flaws While Total War: MEDIEVAL II remains a classic for strategy fans, the Definitive Edition fails to address many of the game’s inherent issues, and the technical problems and lack of modern features make it a frustrating experience for many players: ✔ Classic strategy gameplay and historical battles ✘ Outdated performance and optimization ✘ Few meaningful improvements in the remaster ✘ AI issues and unbalanced difficulty ✘ Lack of modern features like modding support ✘ Clunky interface and steep learning curve for new players Overall: ⭐ 6/10 — A nostalgia trip for old fans, but the remaster fails to modernize the experience, leaving it feeling outdated and frustrating.Show moreShow less
0.5 hours at review585 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
So I dug this game out of my library and have been playing it a lot recently. Started up a game as England because why not. I take over Whales and what's left of England. Then I start my war with Scotland. It goes as well as can be expected they have two cities I have...lots. It ends pretty fast. However just before Great Britan becomes unified I am excommunicated from the church. No matter William the Fatty dies soon enough and I am back in. I then set out on my duty like any good Catholic Lord does and Chritianize this land I have taken. Everything is going well. Our cities are growing in England, and on mainland Europe we managed to take over Brittany and Belgium and Holland. With this new base of man power I believe it is time to bring the word of Christ to the lands of the heretics in the east! However just as I am about ready to go on the Crusade, France decides I am too threatening to them and declares war on me. No matter English dreams can wait, we will just have to take over this damned country first. The war progresses quickly. France is overwhelmed by the veteran soldiers of the English army, mostly consisting of militia, but they are English Militia so they get the job done. We take over Western France and push farther into French homeland, we even take Paris. Just when the war seems to be wrapping up the French call in the Milanese to help them. I never liked Milan and it never surprises me when they declare war. Soon enough the English standard is flying over Metz and Dijon and all that is left is Marseille and Milan's Italian holdings, they will fall soon enough. However on my march to South France I accidentally declare war on Portugal when they came to the aid of France in a battle. It is only small little Portugal and their Iberian holdings will be great for bringing the Sign Of The Cross to the Moors....someday. But alas. It seems England became to big for its breeches. The Not-Holy-Nor-Roman-And-Certainly-Not-An-Empire Holy Roman Empire declares war. UGH. This is going to take much longer than expected. And to make matters worse it seems at some point I was removed from the Church. I only notice because apparently a Crusade was called On Toulouse, which I own. Whether I am now the Anti-Christ or not I was still English and I wasn't about to let some European trash walk into my realm and take it. So I fortify my holdings and wait for the coming storm of armies. In quick succession France, Milan, HRE, Portugal, Hungry and Spain join the Crusade. Not good. Having lost a king and a large handful of family members in the war so far I needed to be careful. So instead of invading their lands I let them come to me. Quick enough three armies are outside my stronghold outbumering me 2:3 (I had reinforced with an army made of entire cavalry). First up is Spain. I let them wait outside and build up siege equipment. Then they attack. It is over before it starts, since apparently Spaniards are made up of weak soldiers who don't even know how to hold a spear properly. Defeating them with minimal losses I turn my gase to the next foe, Hungry. They put up a better fight than the Spanish but they too are not match for English bravery, and are soon defeated and sent home to Eastern Europe to have their silly fights with the Poles and Rus'. The last army to face is the Germans. However I am seriously lacking in soldiers defending Toulouse and have to attack with my Cavalry army. Though at the start of the battle my general warns me that their army is made up of many spears, they have studied me well and it seems that only they will put up a good fight, it truly is time for brave hearts and brave deeds. England has the high ground on the battlefield and we swarm over them like a hoard of.....well angry English. The battle is over disappointingly fast. Their army is in retreat, it seems that even their emperor came to the battle but he too flees from the field like a woman. Our Light Cavalry, those dashing fellows they, catch up to him before he knows what happens and is my prisoner. I demand a ransom but he "claims" he doesn't have the money something about the international jewery shafting his economy. Nonsense. If he can't pay with his Florins then he will pay WITH HIS HEAD! Maybe executing the German Emperor wasn't the best idea but no matter, there is still a war to be won. I defeat the French, Portugese, and Milanese Crusading Armies in time and even branch out into Iberia and across the Rhine. Somewhat expectedly the Pope dies and a new one is elected, not much of a surprise he is Italian, and he hates me. But I still have dreams of one day reclaiming the Holy Land in the Name of Our Lord and Savior. So I send an assassin to kill the Pope. The first one fails but the next one doesn't and the Pope dies soon enough. Disappointingly the next one is German, well that can't be so he dies as well. The next is Polish. Well I don't have any problems with Poland so he can live, for now. He even allows me to return to the Church, I think things might be turning around. But when I go to defend my homeland against...someone it is all a blur by now, I am excomunicated again, what a disappointment I had high hopes for this new Pope but it seems he will go the same route as the last. However my greatest assassin, Christopher the Christian Killer fails me, not only does he fail me he gets himself killed and I am now at war with all of Christendom. With my last King dying from "mysterious causes", and most of my armies heavily wounded from the continuing war, I retreat. Pulling my forces back across all of France seeing all that I had fought so hard to make. Metz, my most recent conquest gone like an instant. Toulouse that I had held out against all odds when I was deemed "An Enemy Of The Faith". Antwerp, where strong soldiers had held out against constant German invasions for over two decades, indeed to was a hard pain to swallow but it had to be done, with the peasantry in open revolt by home from being removed from the Church for so long. I always knew the people would betray me given the chance. So the great armies of victorious England headed home back to farming, waiting, watching for the time when we could once again sail across the Channel and bring the word of Christ to the heathen.Show moreShow less
37 hours at review775 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
Price increase of a game that is 13 years old is considered a di*k move. I'm very disappointed with CA, SEGA and NetEaseShow moreShow less
33.2 hours at review244 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
look at my hours. i think that's a review in itself.Show moreShow less
1,765.9 hours at review709 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
Sneak regional pricing hike - Bad move, Creative Assembly (This mostly related to non-US that were affected by the regional pricing inflation). Prices for all Total War games were inflated across many regions, and that too very disproportionately. In India, the prices are as follows Game Initial Pricing Hiked Pricing Total War : Three Kindgoms ₹ 1999 ₹ 2699 Total War : Warhammer 1/Warhammer 2 ₹ 1999 ₹ 2699 Total War : Attila ₹ 929 ₹ 2029 Total War : Shogun 2 Collection ₹ 989 ₹ 2249 We non-US customer already face through so much price hiking from big publishers, and then you pull this to us. And Why do only we have to suffer through price increases? This is an extremely bad move.Show moreShow less
2.6 hours at review193 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
My Medieval 2 Campaign as Milan: -Start campaign -Have Milan and Genoa, making tons of money -Ok, ally with Venice -No nearby rebels, what to do... -Venice attacks Genoa for ABSOLUTELY no reason -Kill Venetian faction leader -March huge army to Venice, Venice falls -Take Zagreb, Ragusa, and Durazzo from Venetianse -Crusade called on Cairo -Pope thinks I am a threat to Catholicism and demands Duke Puccio joins the crusade on Cairo -Join Crusade -Exterminate Cairo -France excommunicated for having 8 heretics in their borders and 12% Catholicism in Paris region -Pope takes Marseille, makes it their capital -A new threat in the East? Shouldn't affect me... -Trade Cairo for Rome And then it all went South... -I own Milan, Genoa, Venice, Bern, Florence, Staufen, Innsbruck, Vienna, Thesslonica, Durazzo, Corinth, Ajaccio, Tripoli, and Nuremburg. -France reconciled -French declare war on me -French attacks an army of 8 broken lances with their king ONLY -French take Marseille from Pope -France excommunicated -Milan excommunicated -Mongols come out of nowhere and take Corinth, Constantinople, Durazzo, and Thessalonica -Black Plague breaks out -Kills off 2/3 of my empires population -Cairo rebels -Pope is homeless -HRE declares war -HRE takes Staufen and Bern -Armies crippled Borders shrinking, economy failing -Use what little I have left to buy a city off of the Moors -Italian Penninsula falls End Result -Milan has become a one city faction based in Timbuktu -France is a bunch of heretic witches with magic sticks -Africa now speaks Italian. And I didn't even bring up the Timurids, and their armoured elephants with cannons on their backs! 11/10 Would build self destructing Roman Empire againShow moreShow less
57.7 hours at review672 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
Price is increased nearly yearly, do not support these developers. Years ago the base non-sale price of this was $10! https://i.imgur.com/9Yx2Yxo.pngShow moreShow less
1.4 hours at review70 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
I demand Medieval 3Show moreShow less
4.7 hours at review577 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
After 13 years CA decided to raise the price by 10 Euro's Inflation and blaming Valve for doing it without them knowing (♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥) as reasons Yeah this is the best Total War Game No I don't recommend it here, or anywhere officially sold by CA. CA is absolute bottom of the barrel scum, anti-consumer and will hail re-adding half assed features from a game nearly 2 decades old as "NEW and REVOLUTIONARY"Show moreShow less
34.8 hours at review41 people found this helpful
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