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Essays 28 January 2022, 15:53

author: Darius Matusiak

11 Best-selling Strategy Games Ever

How to check the popularity of a title? The best indicator is by the number of copies sold. This time we look at strategy games.

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7. Total War: Three Kingdoms

  1. Developer: Creative Assembly
  2. Year: 2019
  3. Estimated number of copies sold: 3.6 million

The Total War series is one of the most important series in history of strategy games. The entire brand delivered over 37 million copies – a large part of this number are the sales of Total War: Three Kingdoms, extremely popular in China, as well as the second installment of Total War: Warhammer. The idea for the gameplay remains the same for all installments of the series – a turn-based map where we move armies, develop cities and technologies, and real-time battles.

It's difficult to determine which part of the Total War series has sold the most copies. Three Kingdoms certainly broke the studio's record for the fastest-selling game with a million copies in its first week. It was also the most pre-ordered one. Steam Spy reports that Total War: Warhammer 2 received a warmer welcome, but a free weekend with the game may have influenced this. Fans engage in heated discussions about which of these two games have the largest player base. Perhaps the upcoming Total War: Warhammer 3 will settle the debate?

  1. Total War: Three Kingdoms in our encyclopedia

Darius Matusiak

Darius Matusiak

Graduate of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Journalism. He started writing about games in 2013 on his blog on gameplay.pl, from where he quickly moved to the Reviews and Editorials department of Gamepressure. Sometimes he also writes about movies and technology. A gamer since the heyday of Amiga. Always a fan of races, realistic simulators and military shooters, as well as games with an engaging plot or exceptional artistic style. In his free time, he teaches how to fly in modern combat fighter simulators on his own page called Szkola Latania. A huge fan of arranging his workstation in the "minimal desk setup" style, hardware novelties and cats.

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