Genre StrategyReleased Mar 4, 2009

Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition

Estimated lifetime revenue
$7.67M
Gross, before Steam's cut
Net revenue
$5.37M
After Steam's 30% cut
Units sold
778.0K
≈ 20 sales per review
Confidence
High
Based on 38,268 reviews
How we estimate →
Reviews
38,268
Very Positive91% positive
Playing now
1,959
9-day peak 2,442 · low 1,508
New reviews, last 9 days
+48
≈ 5 a day since Oct 8

History

Oct 8 – Oct 17

38.3K38.3K38.2K38.2K
Oct 8Oct 12Oct 17

Total Steam reviews. The slope is the signal: a steady climb long after launch means the game is still selling.

How it compares

Strategy →

Against the 120 most-reviewed Strategy games on Steam

Outearns 35% of them — below the group's median.

Median
$15.59M
114,721 reviews
Top 10% start at
$67.69M
This game
$7.67M
5th pct. by reviews

The group is the games with the most reviews under this tag, not every release, so it leans toward games that sold — a percentile here is a harder test than the same percentile across the whole store would be.

About

Command the seas, control the land, forge a new nation, and conquer the globe.

Developer
CREATIVE ASSEMBLY, Feral Interactive (Mac), Feral Interactive (Linux)
Publisher
SEGA, Feral Interactive (Mac), Feral Interactive (Linux)
Genre
Strategy
Released
Mar 4, 2009
Steam app ID
10500
Data updated
Oct 17, 2026
Estimates, not reported sales. No developer-published figures are on file for this game. See the methodology for how the numbers are built.