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7 games by Creative Assembly reviewed here.
7 reviews
Widely regarded as one of the finest entries in the entire Total War series, still Overwhelmingly Positive nearly two decades on — its negative sample is thin and scattered rather than dominated by one crisis, split between expected age-related technical friction, a historical 2019 regional price-hike controversy, and a small, fresh cluster of Steam-client launch failures in late 2025.
8.5 / 10
A widely loved grand-strategy classic whose negative sample documents a real 2018 spyware scandal, persistent Denuvo/always-online friction, and a heavily criticised DLC structure requiring ownership of a separate game to access its best campaign mode — a complaint Creative Assembly substantially resolved in December 2025 by giving Warhammer III free to owners.
8 / 10
Widely regarded as the best-received entry in the Total War series (Metacritic 90) and still Very Positive on Steam — but a May 2023 update that stripped multiplayer chat, broke the Mod Manager and invalidated saves on a beloved 12-year-old game triggered a wave of protest reviews that, unlike similar incidents elsewhere in this outlet's library, remains unresolved through 2026.
7.5 / 10
One of the best-regarded entries in the Total War series on release, built around a genuinely deep diplomacy system and two distinct ways to play — undercut by a 2019 modding censorship controversy tied to a Chinese-market publishing deal, a DLC roadmap reviewers say Creative Assembly abandoned before finishing the story it promised, and persistent crash bugs still reported years later.
7 / 10
The trilogy-capping mega-campaign Total War fans waited years for finally arrived and is genuinely excellent — after a rough launch, an expensive DLC structure, and a 2023 forum moderation policy that told players criticism was "a privilege" rather than a right.
6.5 / 10
The strategy series' Bronze-Age take on the Iliad drew a record-breaking 7.5 million free claims on its Epic Games Store launch day, then met a very different reception a year later on Steam, where a stack of character DLC, a fantasy expansion and even a paid gore pack turned "half the roster is locked behind paywalls" into the review corpus's central complaint.
6 / 10
A Bronze Age Total War entry that launched to accusations of being an overpriced Troy reskin — then did something this library rarely gets to report: Creative Assembly publicly apologised, cut the price from $59.99 to $39.99, and issued partial refunds to every existing buyer.
6 / 10
