A Mac version of Rome: Total War Gold Edition, developed by Feral Interactive, was released 12 February 2010.

The series has also spawned several popular mods such as Europa Barbarorum and Rome: Total Realism each of which seeks to create more historically accurate settings.

Rome: Total War has won many strategy gaming awards for its realistic campaign and battlefield animation and interface.

The game includes much more detailed characters and features the Age of Discovery (and colonisation of the Americas) and the Mongol and Timurid invasions.

Empire: Total War was announced on 22 August 2007 by Sega[7] and had been secretly in development since the release of Barbarian Invasion.

[8] Players choose an 18th-century faction and set out to achieve domination over the known world through military force, diplomacy, espionage and economics.

Players assume the role of Napoleon Bonaparte or one of his major rivals on a turn-based campaign map and engage in the subsequent battles in real-time.

Shogun 2 is the first game of the series to feature the franchise's name appearing as the primary title in an effort to increase brand awareness.

Also portrayed in a limited role are Britain, United States, and France, with each of whom trade deals can be struck (given the proper infrastructure) and from whom marines can be recruited.

A new feature is the land and sea unit interactions which includes the ability to call in offshore artillery support barrages, coastal gun emplacements that target enemy ships, and the ability to call in campaign map bombardments – bombarding armies and cities in adjacent coastal areas of the campaign map.

Other new features are railway networks, ironclad warships, improved siege battle mechanics (with upgradable tower defences, each with their own specialty), new agent types, the ability to control two armies on the battle map at the same time, a third-person shooter for torpedo gunboats, coastal batteries, Gatling guns and cannons, and a multiplayer overhaul.

They further claimed that the game was developed using a new programming system, which allows it to achieve better graphical quality, including dynamic facial expressions.

According to Creative Assembly, Total War: Attila would implement an "apocalyptic" atmosphere, with hostile weather and darker lighting.

[21] Announced on 22 April 2015, Total War: Warhammer changes the rules of the series as it takes place in a setting of high fantasy.

Races include the men of the Empire and Bretonnia, Orcs and Goblins (Greenskins), Dwarves, Vampire Counts, the Warriors of Chaos, Beastmen, Wood Elves, and the Norscan Tribes.

The game is set in 878 AD, after the death of Ragnar Lodbrok and subsequent Viking invasion of the British Isles by the Great Heathen Army.

The game centres on heroes who fight tyranny but whose ambitions may break their fragile alliance and divide China leading up to the rise of the Three Kingdoms period.

There is a new battle system enabling the player to select Records, a more realistic mode, or Romance, seen by some to be a more fun and creative way to play.

There are six DLCs available: Eight Princes, set almost a hundred years after the original campaign; Mandate of Heaven, set eight years before, in the wake of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, A World Betrayed, set four years after the original campaign, Fates Divided, six years after A World Betrayed before the war between Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, Yellow Turban Rebellion, which allows the player to play as the Yellow Turban Faction within the original campaign; Reign of Blood, similar to the other DLCs available in Total War: Rome II and Total War: Attila called Blood and Gore and Blood and Burning respectively.

A major expansion pack, The Furious Wild is also available, adding the Nanman people with four playable factions in the southwest.

[25] Announced on 3 February 2021, the conclusion to the Total War: Warhammer trilogy introduces factions based on each of the four Chaos Gods (Khorne, Tzeentch, Nurgle, and Slaanesh), as well as the human civilisations of Kislev and Grand Cathay.

[28] Total War: Pharaoh, focused on the New Kingdom period of Ancient Egypt, was announced on 23 May 2023 and released on 11 October 2023.

The player takes the role of a Spartan warrior guided by Ares, tasked with defeating the invading Roman Empire.

An indirect follow-up called Viking: Battle for Asgard was released in 2008, dropping the Total Warrior moniker.

Set in medieval England, the game combines realm building and management with real-time battles and has been released for PC, Android, and iOS.

Developed by NetEase, Total War Battles: WARHAMMER is officially licensed by Creative Assembly and Games Workshop.

It aims to bring deep strategic gameplay in the epic Warhammer Fantasy Battles world to millions of mobile devices worldwide.