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Rome: Total War - Collection

Control and conquer the greatest empire ever known to man.

SimulationStrategy

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Would you recommend it?
Player score
9.5/10
16,717 reviews
Released
2007
Developer
CREATIVE ASSEMBLY
Platforms
1 systems
Critics
92
Steam Deck
playable
Download
Not stated
We have not written a full review of this game.This is a catalogue entry: everything below comes from a source we can link, checked on a stated date. There is no score and no verdict here, because we only publish those after a reviewer has played the game and written it up properly. Our team may well have played this one. Until someone writes the review, we are not going to imply a verdict we have not put our name to.

What is Rome: Total War - Collection?

Control and conquer the greatest empire ever known to man.

Description as published by the developer on its own store page, read 30 August 2026. It is marketing copy, not our assessment.

The record

Catalogue facts
First released27 August 2007
DeveloperCREATIVE ASSEMBLY
PublisherSEGA
PlatformsPC
GenresSimulation, Strategy
Languages1 supported

Source. Catalogue facts from Wikidata , seeded TBA. Store data from Steam, read 30 August 2026.

How was Rome: Total War - Collection received?

Players95%positive of 16,717 · Very Positive
Metacritic92critic aggregate, PC

Method. Player figures are Steam's own totals for the PC version, read 30 August 2026. The Metacritic score is the one Steam publishes on its store page and can lag the site itself. Metacritic page. Neither is our opinion. We have not published a review of this game.

What does it support?

Technical support
CapabilitySupport
ControllerNot stated
Cloud savesNo
Cross-platform playNo
Mod supportNo official workshop
Online playSingle-player only
In-game purchasesNo
Steam Deckplayable
Download sizeNot stated
Add-on contentNone listed
Age gateNone

Content descriptors

  • Frequent violence or gore
  • General mature content

Method. Read from the publisher's Steam listing on 30 August 2026. Describes the PC version. Console versions differ.

Is Rome: Total War - Collection worth it?

95% of 16,717 Steam reviews are positive, which Steam rates Very Positive. Its price is not listed, and critics score it 92/100. About 552 people were playing at once when we last checked, so it is still active.

That is the data, not a verdict for sale: whether it is worth it depends on the price you pay and what you want. We have not published our own review of this game.

Where Rome: Total War - Collection sits on the grid

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Players. The share of Steam reviews marked positive, pulled toward the catalogue average in proportion to how few reviews stand behind it. A game with 200 reviews moves a long way toward the average; one with 200,000 barely moves at all. Without this a title sitting at 100 percent on nine reviews outranks Half-Life 2 at 98 percent on 278,000.

Popularity. A blend of two things that are not the same. Audience is how many people wrote a Steam review, which is a floor on how many played it. Reach is how many language editions of Wikipedia document the game, which is cultural footprint rather than sales. A game can score high on one and low on the other: a huge free-to-play title has audience without reach, and a landmark console exclusive has reach without a Steam audience at all. Where both exist they are averaged; where only one does, that one carries it.

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  • Fetched from live third-party data. Player sentiment from Steam, critic aggregates as published on store pages, prices checked hourly, attention from Wikipedia. Each figure carries its source and the date it was read, and we do not adjust any of them.

Is Rome: Total War - Collection still active? Players right now

552concurrent playerssnapshot, 19 October 2026
72%busier than this shareof the 1,496 games we track
16,177Steam reviews writtenevery one an owner

Rome: Total War - Collection has a modest but active community: 552 people were playing at once when we last read Steam on 19 October 2026. This is a snapshot, not a live counter, and it is a recent concurrent reading rather than an all-time record. For what is trending across the catalogue right now, see the pulse.

How many people own Rome: Total War - Collection

1.0M–2.0MEstimated owners on Steama band, not a figure · SteamSpy
16,177Reviews writtena floor: every one owns it
552Playing at peak, recentlyconcurrent players

This is an estimate, not a sales figure, and the two are not interchangeable. SteamSpy samples public profiles and publishes a range; the range here spans a factor of 2.0, and that width is the honest part of it. We show both ends rather than a midpoint, because a midpoint would look like a measurement.

Steam only. Console and storefront sales are not counted, so a game that sold heavily elsewhere reads low here. Read on 19 October 2026. Where a publisher has announced a real unit figure, that appears separately and carries its source.

Estimated sales for Rome: Total War - Collection

These are estimates, not reported figures. CREATIVE ASSEMBLY has not published unit sales for Rome: Total War - Collection, and nobody outside the company can measure them. What follows is arithmetic on the review count, with the method printed below so you can check it or reject it.

502K–1.0MEstimated copies soldon Steam, lifetime

How this was calculated

Steam sales track review counts closely enough that dividing one by the other across games with published figures gives a usable multiplier. This is the standard method for estimating sales from outside a publisher.

Sales estimate working
Reviews on Steam16,717
Sales per review30 to 60
List priceNot recorded
Assumed average selling price33% to 66% of list
SteamSpy owner estimate1.0M–2.0M, a different measure, see below

What this cannot tell you

Steam only. Console, Epic, GOG and retail sales are not in here. For a game that sold heavily on PlayStation this is a fraction of the real number.

The band is wide because the method is imprecise. Review rates vary with price, genre, launch era and how insistently a game asks. Published analyses put the ratio between 30 and 60 for paid games, and we show the whole range rather than picking a point in it.

The owner estimate above measures something else. SteamSpy counts accounts that have the game, which includes free weekends, bundles, giveaways and gifts. It sits higher than a sales figure for that reason, and the two are not alternative answers to the same question.

Revenue is the shakiest line. It assumes an average selling price well below list because most copies move in sales, and it ignores regional pricing, refunds, key resellers and whatever deal the publisher actually has with Valve. Treat it as an order of magnitude, not a figure.

If CREATIVE ASSEMBLY publishes a real number we will use that instead and say where it came from. Our editorial policy covers how we handle figures we cannot verify.

Latest Rome: Total War - Collection updates & patch notes

Pulled from Rome: Total War - Collection's own Steam feed on 5 September 2026. Posts marked as from the studio were written by the developer; the rest are articles Steam syndicated from elsewhere. Every one links to its source.

  1. The guy responsible for the whole battle engine in Total War since Rome 1 had 'never worked writing game code' when he got the assignment · PC Gamer
  2. The TV show based on Total War was tricking us all along: 'It's kind of embarrassing, but it's television' · PC Gamer

What readers say about Rome: Total War - Collection

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Games like Rome: Total War - Collection

24 games overlap with Rome: Total War - Collection on the tags Steam players applied to it, on genre, and on theme. The closest are Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition, Total War: NAPOLEON – Definitive Edition and Total War: ROME II - Emperor Edition.

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Common questions about Rome: Total War - Collection

What platforms is Rome: Total War - Collection on?

Rome: Total War - Collection is available on PC. It first released in 2007.

Do players recommend Rome: Total War - Collection?

95% of 16,717 Steam reviews are positive, which Steam rates Very Positive. That is players rating it, not our review. We have not published a review of this game.

What is the Metacritic score for Rome: Total War - Collection?

92 out of 100 for the PC version, as published on the game's own Steam store page. Steam can lag Metacritic by a few points.

Does Rome: Total War - Collection work on Steam Deck?

Valve rates Rome: Total War - Collection as playable on the Steam Deck, from its own testing.

Who made Rome: Total War - Collection?

Rome: Total War - Collection was developed by CREATIVE ASSEMBLY and published by SEGA.

Is Rome: Total War - Collection worth it in 2026?

95% of 16,717 Steam reviews are positive (Very Positive), and its price is not listed. That is the strongest signal we hold; "worth it" depends on the price you pay and what you want, so weigh the sentiment against the current price above.

Is Rome: Total War - Collection dead?

No. About 552 people were in-game at once when we last read Steam's concurrent-player figure. Peak activity is higher; this is a recent snapshot, not the all-time peak.