Recent reviews by ManiacTurtle

215,778 positive reviews, vs 4,200 negative. Obviously this is OBJECTIVELY THE BEST GAME ON STEAM for any game that costs up to about $40, and the original only costs like.. $5... You'll get more than $5 worth of entertainment out of this game for sure. There's over a hundred of hours of gameplay in just the original... Have fun with this walking simulator lol XD

This game is a fun roguelike tower defence, you can control any unit you have. Build your little minions with body parts and destroy the world. Find combinations that work to protect the base, and find others to go and attack. Completely worth the $3 you'll spend on it, send some love to the devs and support them by buying this game. It isn't a long game but certainly is enjoyable and gets a thumbs up from me.

One of the greatest and most defining strategy games of all time, wide variety of units, excellent mod community and hours of gameplay. Journey back to the feudal era of Japan and wage war for dominance of the country during the sengoku jidai era, or purchase the expansions for the Fall of The Samurai during a period in which you fight for the emperor or the shogun, or possibly even betray all and become Emperor yourself. Unit mapping is much better than previous versions and this sequel to the start of the Total War Franchise is a must have for any fan of RTS games. Includes naval battles (which are somewhat clunky during the sengoku jidai era, but more than make up for that in the FoTS where you can command steel ships and first person shooter mode for your gun batteries and cannons.

long awaited, great game, even in early access, devs are quick to try to patch known bugs. still some mechanics I`m not sure about but I`m learning, Game is a first person fighter-strategy game, if your army is more powerful than the opponent you can just send troops instead of battling yourself. take fiefs, wage war, control the world medieval style. make sure you have food for your army with you, and maybe build a caravan and a couple factories.

I was excited for this game, I've been waiting for 20 years for them to come out with this title and it isn't really what I expected. My expectations were based upon their other games and this one blows them away by comparison. While it's true that the majority of Total War games get tweaks to the mechanics this one has been completely revamped as far as campaign style goes. Now, for fans of the Era of the 3Kingdoms (set around 190AD or CE depending on which generation you are) you may be a bit disappointed that there aren't any naval battles, as the WU had naval superiority in that time, however, they have redone the diplomacy, different factions have different abilities, you can choose to rank up your title quickly or slowly depending on the buildings you create, clans have different troops... they have trebuchet units.. omg the trebs are amazinngggg but lets just do this in a list format.
Everything is colour coded, based on the particular stat or building type or unit type.
Diplomacy: (Trade) you can trade gold, can trade food, can trade ancillaries, territories, and make trade agreements. Everything gets points and it's much easier to manage because you can see the points instead of them being hidden.
(friends) form coalitions, form military alliances, can make NAPS (non agression pacts), allow military access, vassalize other factions
(war) declare war, declare military alliance war, and sue for peace, you can even try to intimidate others to get what you want (failing makes you declare war though)
Spying: you can send spies into other factions, you can use them to steal items from other factions, spy on their military movements, hinder their movement range, open castle gates (alot of the stuff from other games really), make their unit turn traitor if it's leading an army and get the unit stack (not during battle), you can even start a civil war if your spy gets to a high office position.
Tech Tree: well technically (hehehe) it's not a tech tree, it's reforms, but it looks like a tree, special units, special buffs, buildings, even reforms to make your officers like you more, and there is far more choice available of how you want to do things. (well actually the yellow turbans get techs)
Officers: 5 styles of officers (not including the Yellow Turbans who have their own 3 unique types) 5 stats on each, you can even make them legendary officers if they get 100 in a stat. There are 5 types of ancillaries with 4(5 really) types of ranking, common, bronze, silver, gold(legendary/unique) and also pieces from sets which give more bonuses when equipped with the full sets. (these are noted by a green border) there are Weapons, Armour, Horses/Mounts, Followers, and Items. The majority of these can be swapped between officers and you can choose who get's what, with the exception of certain armours (again, most notably the yellow turbans armours, which are automatically upgraded as the officers level up) Officers even get their own Tech Trees.
Campaign map: well... lots of different buildings/territories, some give a random chance for obtaining ancillaries, others increase food, allow trade route etc. you can ambush, siege, starve enemies to death. The campaign map pretty much directly relates to the kind of battle map you will see.
uhh well.. yeah I guess that's most of it...

Space pirates and Zombies, name says it all, you are a space pirate, and you fight other space captains and later during the campaign you fight a zombie faction as well. If not playing campaign you can either side with a force or create your own right from the start. controls are great, and (I'm not exaggerating) likely over a billion ways to customize your spaceship (although theres probably only a couple thousand ways that would be reccomended) I personally like to put a couple STRONG ARMORED pieces on the front of my ship and then charge fullspeed into enemy capital ships A^o^A

Fun game but the fact is that its pay2win because of all the upgrades. For that reason would not recommend. I mean when a blob twice your size is able to hunt you down by chasing straight..... nu uh!

It was a mistake to attempt to play this game; I didnt get past the tutorial; beginning key functions (buttons) seem a bit clunky; alot of load screens and high wait time to load.

I have gotta say this is probably one of the best zombie games out there.... its .. hmm I guess its a sandbox zombie game, kill zombies, search houses for resources, upgrade buildings etc etc... its Single Player though, so no teaming up with friends (except the npcs in the game)

Excellent game, wont give out too much info but will say that its replayable.. many many many times I`m on I think my 3rd fail so far lol