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Never finished a campaign honestly, but the battles alone justify the hours I put in.
Game entry
Total War: Shogun 2
2011 · Strategy, Simulation · PC, Mac, Linux · Sega
GameForever voters place Total War: Shogun 2 no. 283 in the world ranking, with 1,760 ELO points and 76% of wins across 141 duels settled. Measured against its own family, it climbs to no. 10 out of 160 (2011).
World rank
no. 283
ELO score
1,760
Wins
76%
Duels played
141
About Total War: Shogun 2
In Total War: Shogun 2 you choose from one of 9 (10 with Ikko-Ikki dlc) clans, each with their own unique traits and skills and each with their own RPG-style warlord to lead them.
Use a mixture of diplomacy, political manoeuvring, province building, research and special agents such as Ninja assassins or Geisha spies to get your enemies exactly where you want them.
An intuitive user interface and a lovingly-created, complex and detailed campaign map make it both easy and enjoyable to build and run cities, recruit and move troops and issue commands – both noble and dishonorable, all with the aim of mastering enemy forces and seizing their lands.
ELO progression
Score moved from 1,500 to 1,760 ELO points over the last 170 days.
Head-to-head
Direct record on the most played match-ups.
- against EarthBound 0% 2 duels played · 24 points ahead
- against Sid Meier's Civilization V 0% 2 duels played · 60 points behind
- against Far Cry 4 50% 2 duels played · 135 points ahead
- against Stardew Valley 0% 2 duels played · 113 points behind
- against Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings 0% 2 duels played · 88 points behind
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The standing
Where Total War: Shogun 2 ranks
The world rank mixes every family of games. Here is where Total War: Shogun 2 stands in each of the ones it belongs to. Its best standing, all families considered: 10 out of 160 (2011).
| Ranking | Position | Games competing |
|---|---|---|
| World ranking | 283 | 5,035 |
| Strategy | 22 | 336 |
| 2010s | 119 | 2,050 |
| 2011 | 10 | 160 |
The community
The debate
19 comments
Bayer15
Never finished a campaign honestly, but the battles alone justify the hours I put in.
Geraldine_2001
Never finishing campaigns seems common here, unlike Age of Kings where I always saw the ending screen eventually.
SaveByte40
I keep coming back to defend this one in these threads and honestly I'm not sure why I bother anymore, the clan campaigns still hook me every single time even after all these years, the political layer just does something the genre rarely bothers with, so here I am again saying the same thing.
suzanne16
I picked this up during a rainy week off work and just sank into it. Ended up learning way more about clan management than I expected, in a good way.
Lopes69
Une semaine de pluie pour apprendre la gestion de clan, sympa, moi c'est plutôt une semaine à raler contre l'ia diplomatique.
karina32
What strikes me putting this next to Stardew Valley is how differently they treat time, one rushes you into decisions constantly while the other lets you breathe, and I think that contrast is exactly why I keep both installed.
FramePlayer
Compared to something like Far Cry 4, this actually rewards patience instead of just handing you spectacle.