It depends on what you're after.
At $9.99. It has been as low as $2.49.
- Story and characters: 16 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Graphics: 11 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Audio: 4 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Crashes: 21 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
- Combat: 5 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
- Bugs: 5 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
Based on 241 player reviews · updated 6 days ago
What players think
The recurring themes across 151 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.
Watching internal politics unfold, sometimes in ways that disrupt your grand plans, gives the game a living, breathing quality that makes each campaign feel distinct.
1) For a 2008 Game, Graphics should've been better.
This is easily one of my favourite games: the soundtrack is SUPERB and there are several layers of complexity that take much time to really understand; every playthrough is slightly different because of the randomness of characters and the chance of civil wars; and there is more: there are mods, the magnificent Wiz's mod called Reign of the Ancient, which makes the vanilla game 10 times better, way more realistic and harder.
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Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway.
Should you buy it now?
Crit’s read on the price, from Steam price history.
Currently $9.99. The lowest we've tracked is $2.49.
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