Steam reviews
Very Positive
91% of 37,505 reviews
Critic scores
90
Metacritic
Generally favorable
Aggregated from professional reviewers. OpenCritic and others are on the roadmap.
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TOTAL WAR: EMPIRE – DEFINITIVE EDITION
Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition has 2,108 concurrent players on Steam right now. Its 24 hour peak is 2,587 and its all-time peak is 3,710. Data refreshes every 5 minutes from the official Steam Web API.
DEV · CREATIVE ASSEMBLY, Feral Interactive (Mac), Feral Interactive (Linux)PUB · SEGA, Feral Interactive (Mac), Feral Interactive (Linux)2009
Command the seas, control the land, forge a new nation, and conquer the globe.
- Solid daily community. Plenty of people to play with right now.
- Currently at 57% of the all-time peak of 3,710 players.
- Last updated 8 months ago: Total War 25th Anniversary Showcase.
Playing now
2,108
24h peak
2,587
24h change
▼ 8.6%
Quick verdict
Is Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition still alive in 2026?
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ACROSS PLATFORMS
STEAMLIVE
Current
2.11K
24h peak
2.59K
All-time
3.71K
TWITCHLIVE · VIEWERS
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No live streams
Nobody is streaming this game on Twitch right now.
Xbox · PlayStation · Nintendo
No public concurrent-player API exists for these platforms. Other sites guess by scraping achievement timestamps or leaderboards. We won’t make up numbers. If the platforms ever ship a real API, real numbers will show up here.
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