Summary

A Total War Saga: Troy is the first in the award-winning strategy series to focus on the Bronze-Age Mediterranean and the legendary twenty-year conflict between the kingdoms of Troy and Mycenaean Greece, known as the Trojan War.

Storyline

In this legendary age, heroes walk the earth. Yet it takes only a single impulsive act to spark a conflict that will shake the world. Audacious Paris, prince of Troy, takes beautiful Helen from her palace in Sparta. As they sail away, Helen’s husband, king Menelaus, curses her name. He will bring his errant wife home – whatever the cost!

King Agamemnon, wide-ruling lord of finely-walled Mycenae, hears his brother’s call. He summons Achaean heroes from far and wide, among them swift-footed Achilles and Odysseus of the silver tongue. The Greeks set course for Troy, towards inevitable war and slaughter. For there, on the battlefield before the great city, legends will be born…


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A Total War Saga: Troy Reviews & Ratings

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Review by CD-Action
November 16, 2020

A mix between Three Kingdoms and Thrones of Britannia, Troy is a solid game that has a lot to offer and guarantees many hours of addictive fun but might disappoint loyal Total War fans with some of the changes (e.g. diplomacy). If you’re new to the series, be prepared to power through the overwhelming beginning, fortunately with the help of one of the best tutorials I’ve ever seen.

73
Review by New Game Network
October 7, 2020

Troy is a good addition to the Total War franchise with an interesting setting. However, it does not capture the imagination or attention like previous entries in the franchise.

80
Review by Lifwerne [user]
September 8, 2020

I think this game was great. Not as polished as Warhammer 2, but improved on a lot of things. For example you don't have annoying rebels everyI think this game was great. Not as polished as Warhammer 2, but improved on a lot of things. For example you don't have annoying rebels every 2 seconds like in WH and you don't have invasions of Chaos razing your cities. The controls are great to and the map view in combat.I loved the aesthetics of Troy, ancient greek and the addition of gods and diplomacy is awsome. I really liked the praying to gods mechanic for buffs. Felt satisfying. The map is gorgeous and the combat is awsome as always.The positive:Trade regions, diplomacy, agents, the awsome aestethics, good music (though I wish it was calmer at points), many cool units and prayer system. The setting. Varied combat maps, which I really liked and varied seige maps. Clean UI. I tried Three Kingdoms and absolutley hated it. This is so much better. Few cool special units. Like harpies and Minatours.The negative:The campaign was very short and contain too few interesting missions. Like most TW games. Needs more variation imo. Also need mechanics to auto level up, because when you sit with 30+ settlements and a bunch of agents, it's just annoying choosing leveling points every single round. It's more of a shore.Better description for units and diplomacy, sometimes very hard to know which units was the best when they are so similar. I really liked the units design though.Better diplomacy AI and clarity to who your allies are and not- very unclear AI decions, they can start wars and attack you, to next turn want peace.I dislike that Agents could not fight in your armies. Having "generals" or leaders in your army other than your hero is really great and adds more addition to the gameplay.I think they should try to script some more combat in the campaign, guide you through a story more, goes for all TW games. Switch it up. For example have combats set up (with allready finished armies) where you get to play story driven battles in the campaign.The seige battles are boring as usual. Mostly annoying. Maybe they should lessen the turns it take to get seige equipment. This is ancient greek though, so not very strange that they didn't have a lot of siege weapons.Still I liked the game! Especially the aesthics, controls and setting appealed to me. Cannot wait for the next Total war game and see which time period they will use next time.

75
Review by Destructoid
August 24, 2020

A Total War Saga: Troy plays it safe in some slightly disappointing ways, but brings enough new to the table that I would appreciate seeing its ideas make their way over to the next mainline Total War game.

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Review by Twinfinite
August 18, 2020

As a first foray, it is an incredibly impressive effort from Creative Asselby Sofia, a team that has done incredible justice to one of the most important tales of the ancient world.

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Game Information
Release Date August 13, 2020
Publisher Sega, Creative Assembly Sofia
Content Rated T (Teen)
Game Modes Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Player Perspectives Bird view / Isometric
Genres Real Time Strategy (RTS), Simulator, Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Themes Action, Historical
Platforms PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac