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Very Positive

87% of 86,897 reviews

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TOTAL WAR: ROME II - EMPEROR EDITION

Total War: ROME II - Emperor Edition has 4,643 concurrent players on Steam right now. Its 24 hour peak is 5,727 and its all-time peak is 7,248. Data refreshes every 5 minutes from the official Steam Web API.

DEV · CREATIVE ASSEMBLY, Feral InteractivePUB · SEGA, Feral Interactive2013

Emperor Edition is the definitive edition of ROME II, featuring an improved politics system, overhauled building chains, rebalanced battles and improved visuals in both campaign and battleEmperor Edition contains all free feature updates since its release in 2013, which includes bug fixes, balancing, Twitch.

Solid daily community. Plenty of people to play with right now.
Currently at 64% of the all-time peak of 7,248 players.
Last updated 4 months ago: Thursday 30th April: Show & Tell Livestream.

Playing now

4,643

24h peak

5,727

24h change

▲ 20.7%

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ACROSS PLATFORMS

STEAMLIVE

Current

4.64K

24h peak

5.73K

All-time

7.25K

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