Humble Choice for November 2025 has Total War: WARHAMMER III

I really love TW: Warhammer (all 3 games), but I stopped playing it after switching to Steam Deck as the 3 is unsupported and runs really badly.

Maybe when I switch from Steam Deck to something else I will get back to it.

I really love TW: Warhammer (all 3 games), but I stopped playing it after switching to Steam Deck as the 3 is unsupported and runs really badly.

Maybe when I switch from Steam Deck to something else I will get back to it.

I also quit but I have over 1000 hours in WH2 and a little over half of that in WH3. They are really good games and run well with Proton, but CA really let the AI degrade and is now in a state of disrepair. WH2 has it's faults but it was at least challenging in the first 50 turns, but WH3 is a snooze fest. I really hope they get it to a better state before the last DLC or at least give the community better tools to maintain it.

They really should look at Paradox for inspiration on how to give options to make the campaigns more interesting.

Last edited by Brokatt on 5 Nov 2025 at 3:14 pm UTC

With the state the game is in, a year between fairly unremarkable dlc and now this... Looks like they'll be winding it down soon. Skeleton crew vibes.

Really been enjoying the TW:WH quite a lot over the years, though I really wish they had some smaller-scale campaigns. The Immortal Empires mode can be great fun, but it's also a massive map with many hundreds of factions with large demands both on mental focus and accepting longer turn times. The smaller story-focused campaigns in both Warhammer 2 and 3 are nice enough, but they are also a lot more directly story-focused and even they are quite huge in scope.

I would really love the ability to just pick a smaller sub-region of the world to play a IE-style freeform campaign in. Since a smaller world means better performance, shorter turn times, and a more focused style of play, it'd be a really nice complement to the larger Immortal Empires - but I wouldn't keep my hopes up...

Still, the desire for a smaller, more compact campaign notwithstanding, it's a great game and has lots of really fun parts to it! :grin:

The (steam) reviews on TW:WH3 are shocking. I thought this was a well-loved series, and maybe the first two games are in a better place, but jeez - you rarely see "mostly negative" except on absolute stinkers! It's denuvo-encumbered too. Great.

Etrian Odessey is a weird one too - decent reviews, but ultimately a fairly weak remaster of a well-loved series, so it's a nostalgia cash-in... and it's denuvo-encumbered?! Pass.

The rest seem average to decent, but nothing stands out. I remember feeling genuine excitement when I was subbed to Humble Choice a few years ago. It feels like it's really nose-dived since.

Warhammer 3 really fucked up the siege battles. Turned them into mobile tower defense bs. And it's a damn shame that they abandoned Warhammer 2 which would have been the definitive fantasy warhammer experience with some of the QoL improvements from the last game.

And, yeah, the base game is essenyially just a demo without the ridiculously expensive dlcs. Stick with the second game since the third looks more and more like a failed experiment.

Last edited by devland on 5 Nov 2025 at 11:47 pm UTC

In my opinion, the game has a technical debt and design problems that were there since the first Warhammer Total War. The third game is very ambitious, but the engine it runs on was never meant to tackle this. Immortal Empires campaign is the result. They began to operate on a true grand strategy scale in IE but their engine doesn't deal well with hundreds and hundreds of factions and while the map is beautiful, they had to squish it very weirdly in many places in the name of performance. It's the biggest Total War map that's at the same time, gameplay wise, too small.

Last edited by LungDrago on 6 Nov 2025 at 8:50 am UTC