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Total War: NAPOLEON – Definitive Edition

2010

Should you play it?

Complete your Total War collection with this Definitive Edition of Total War: NAPOLEON, which includes all DLC and feature updates since the game’s release

What works

  • Historical accuracy and immersive campaigns
  • Challenging and skill-based battles
  • Active multiplayer with cooperative play
  • Strong modding community enhancing gameplay
  • High replayability and strategic depth

Things to keep in mind

  • Limited number of playable factions
  • Some ai weaknesses and scripted campaign elements
  • Smaller map scope compared to empire
  • Optimization issues on newer hardware
  • Multiplayer community can be toxic or unbalanced

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Rise of Nations: Extended Edition

  • Total War: SHOGUN 2

  • Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition

  • Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition

  • Sid Meier's Civilization® IV

  • Cossacks 3

More fantastical

Games that feels like Total War: NAPOLEON – Definitive Edition but with more imaginative fiction

Less social

Games that feels like Total War: NAPOLEON – Definitive Edition but with less teamwork and cooperation

  • Master of Command

  • Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition

  • Total War: ATTILA

  • Total War: ROME REMASTERED

  • Field of Glory II

  • Pike and Shot : Campaigns

Less intimate

Games that feels like Total War: NAPOLEON – Definitive Edition but with less focus on close relationships

  • A Total War Saga: THRONES OF BRITANNIA

  • Oriental Empires

  • Total War: ROME II - Emperor Edition

  • Imperial Glory

  • Ancestors Legacy

  • Civilization IV®: Warlords

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Total War: NAPOLEON – Definitive Edition: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Fellowship, Domination. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Story, Leadership. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Fantasy.

Last update: 04/08/2026