Last updated on January 2nd, 2026 at 10:10 pm
Total War™: EMPIRE – Strategy Game Review
Total War™: EMPIRE is a Strategy game from Feral Interactive Ltd, first launched in 21st November 2024.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 2,576+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Total War™: EMPIRE Stand Out
READ BEFORE BUYING: Please expand this description and read the full list of supported devices below to confirm that your device is supported.
EMPIRE brings Total War’s real-time battles and grand turn-based strategy into the 18th-century age of exploration and conquest.
Lead great powers in a race for dominance — from Europe to India and the Americas. Command vast fleets and armies in an era of rapid scientific advances, global conflict and momentous political change.
This is the complete Total War: EMPIRE desktop experience, expertly adapted for iPhone and iPad, with redesigned user interfaces and extensive quality-of-life improvements.
LEAD THE NATION
Grow one of eleven factions into a military and economic superpower.
DOMINATE THE BATTLEFIELD
Master gunpowder warfare in seismic 3D battles decided by tactical genius and technological superiority.
RULE THE WAVES
Outmanoeuvre rivals in spectacular sea battles — where wind direction, cunning and a well-timed broadside can prove decisive.
MASTER THE GLOBE
Use statecraft and subterfuge to secure territory and lucrative trade routes.
SEIZE THE FUTURE
Develop new technologies to power industrial expansion and military prowess.
COMMAND THE ACTION
Forge your empire with intuitive touchscreen controls, or any iPadOS-compatible mouse & keyboard.
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‘A NEW WORLD’ NOW AVAILABLE
Available via in-app purchase, this massive expansion unlocks:
• 44 PLAYABLE FACTIONS: Lead all non-rebel factions in the Grand Campaign, from Greece and Gran Colombia to Mexico and the Mamelukes.
• 2 NEW CAMPAIGNS: The Late Start Campaign brings EMPIRE’s global map into 1783, where technologically advanced empires fight to retain their distant colonies. In the Warpath Campaign, lead one of five Native American factions on a detailed, tightly focused map of the Americas.
• 14 NAVAL UNITS: Enhances late-game naval combat with variants on existing vessels and favourites from Total War: NAPOLEON, including the giant 140-gun Santísima Trinidad.
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We recommend playing Total War: EMPIRE on iOS 17 or later. You need 12GB of free space on your device, though we recommend at least double this to avoid initial installation issues.
Supported iPhones:
• iPhone XR and later
• iPhone SE – 2nd Generation (2020) and later
Supported iPads:
• iPad – 7th Generation (2019) and later
• iPad mini – 5th Generation (2019) and later
• iPad Air – 3rd Generation (2019) and later
• iPad Pro – 2nd Generation (2017) and later
• If you require assistance, please contact our support team at [email protected]
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This Strategy game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Total War™: EMPIRE is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 20th October 2025
Recent improvements include:
• Fixes a crash that could occur when starting a Custom Battle.
• Fixes a crash that could occur during diplomatic negotiations in the Warpath campaign.
• Fixes an issue in battles where the Dock Unit to Wall function would not work when playing with keyboard and mouse.
• Fixes a number of minor issues relating to "A New World" DLC factions.
• For a full list of changes, please visit feral.in/empiremobile-changelog
Download & Availability
Total War™: EMPIRE is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Total War™: EMPIRE on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
We really enjoyed playing Britain in this time period! We personally think its really cool to have a seven years war time period.
Well we just found the Total War franchise 4 months ago but the franchise has been out for 25yrs now and we only played/play the ones for mobile and we can honestly tell you theres 5 Total games released for mobile right now and every single one is great slot to do management of towns,finances,troops and movement of troops always having a supply line set up you can cut trade deals be diplomatic with other nations you have assassins to either sabotage your enemy or friend if you wanna or you straight try to kill people theres spies obviously you spy on towns and people theres just no limits to things to do in these games and all the factions have there own different troop Tys these games are truly amazing and will take over your life as you know it we WOULD BUY THESE GAMES MUST BUY.
But we noticed no matter what the more expensive units always win also we dont like how a barracks isnt a starter building and we get like 2 armies and 2 navies but other than these keep up the good work this games awesome.
One of the suggestions we would recommend for this game to be better is to expand the map in the game to add smaller nation that had existed for the time like Siberia, Asia, South America, & Alaska.
Like the title says we need a new world dlc for steam,it would bring a lot of players back.
So we were just playing the new DLC that came out, and we were playing as Norway and we just recruited our first unit and moved him to the fort and we heard a very disturbing sound, and that sound was The Norwegian unit was speaking German. WHY!! At least have them speak Swedish, but why German. Even Denmark is speaking, Swedish. So please, for the love of all things Scandinavian, make the voice lines for Norwegian units and agents be Swedish and not German.
Is there anyway to play this version of ETW on our Mac? This mobile version is so much better than the available version on Mac, we only wish we can play it on there.
Can you fix the Calvary bug? You should be able to win battles with a frontal Calvary charge against line infantry. It works on the other Total Wars.
Game is great and runs really well. Controls on the campaign map are great. In battle they need to add the arrows that tell units to move forward backwards or tilt left/right because it can be really finicky.
Good game, but melee fights animation extremely clunky, and we can't optimise game for Iphone 11.
This is an amazing game the only thing holding it back is that if you liberate a country to create a buffer the game locks your troops in place and you cant move them and the only way to break out of it is to then re-fight the country you just liberated and take over.
Ive been looking for a game like this on mobile since we were a kid. We love everything about the game. Just wish it was online or something. PLEASE and we MEAN PLEASE release the Napoleonic era game.
Best strategy game Ive played.
Love it any chance on updating the pc version of etw.
Total War has been one of our favorite game series for a long time. Thrilled to be able to play on mobile devices.
The greek armies use turkish voices…. Please fix.
We have a few hundred hours on the original empire total war to one of our favorites right next to medieval two. Ive been waiting for a total war port for years, and we believe this delivers. But this version of the game in vanilla is very comparable to Darth mod and empire two in a lot of ways. Especially with the quality of life improvements and they added over like 40 playable civilizations. Overall, this game plus the DLC we believe is very worth it for the price. You can play on your iPad iPhone Mac. The game runs great. Love being able to play on the go or on the couch. Cloud sync works great you cant go wrong with this.
We love this game. Downloaded it on our phone and play it all the time on our work trips. Makes plane and train rides so enjoyable. The new content is awesome! We love playing as the Inuit or Bavaria and trying take over the world. A problem we have noticed is that sometimes our religious buildings do not convert the region, especially if we are trying to convert a region to Animism. Would be nice to have that fixed so we dont get slammed with unhappy citizens. A suggestion we have would be to add the pirates as a playable nation. Would just be funny. Overall, love what you guys have done and we hope you continue to add more in the future.
Game now runs flawlessly for us, and the release of the DLC is absolutely awesome. We dont remember the smaller factions being playable on PC, so we think its a new addition? Either way its absolutely awesome playing an emergent faction and trying to take over the world. Great game! We hope one day Ferral can bring Total War Shogun 2 on mobile devices, we would 100 percent buy it immediately. Thank you for porting such an amazing series onto mobile devices, never would have thought they would play so well. 10/10.
Guys we know the cannons were effective but no troops and just cav and cannons is insane on higher difficulty can we please fix this , just a customer that loves the game and sees a problem.
Needs ability to play as pirate faction and also ability to call allies to war.
Ive been getting bored of most of the napoleanic war games until we found the one.
We love this game. Its really fun to play. However, we ran into an issue. While Im playing the game, the screen gets bigger than smaller over and over again. Its kind of annoying. If you guys can fix this than that would be awesome. We still love the game though. P.S. Can you please bring Total War: Napoleon to mobile.
Remaster steam version and also needs allow to play as pirate faction.
Everything that was lacking for us had been added. You gave what nobody asked for thank you so much. This is why we pay for all ur stuff.
However with the new update we noticed Im having a hard time forming our troops around well basically anything such as fences or trees Im only able to move our guys in open fields and can no longer take cover behind walls. Weirdly enough buildings dont really have a impact as we can still move freely and form lines if needed but for some reason we just cant form lines anywhere near walls.
Can you release Napoleon total war for the iOS.
Hello, we play on mobile and for some reason this mode keeps crashing every time we try and play it.
This game is really fun and it truly deserves five stars, we only have one major complaint, and that issue lies in the United States campaign. You see in the United States campaign, on turn one literally every AI faction unlocks every tech in the tech tree, regardless of whether theyre able to research it or not. This puts the player at a major disadvantage, and it cant be intended.
Its really a good game, especially for a mobile, we would literally cry of happiness if you guys ever make a mobile version of napoleon total war.
We love the game , we just wish there were more factions to play as , and that if a revolution happened that the rebel forces actually have a civil war? Just a suggestion , but also if we could make it more like Napoleon total war we all know and love that would be awesome overall we think the game is stunning for a mobile game lets not forget that , but great job guys ill continue to spend our money on games you guys make they are always very well made and as well as attention to detail yes we could ask for more but we know that the mobile device can only do so much , so thank you for what you have done but look into the playable factions for sure , we would like to play as united states and then make our way to Europe to take over the brits.
This game is so fun Im currently playing as the Dutch things arent going so well though the French invaded and we gathered our forces and pushed them out we but we also took Brussels from the Spanish and are making progress in are colonies thank you so much for making this game its so amazing the best mobile game.
We played the first Rome when we were a kid and loved it. We recently bought this game and its amazing. Ive noticed diplomacy matters more in this game – its a very fragile balance. It can be played diplomatically, war like, or both. We just beat the game as Poland-Lithuania and it was challenging on H/H difficulty. This game is more complex than previous orientations. Its also incredibly fun and rewarding when you get the cool campaign victory video. Tactics matter, your treasury matters – you have a government in this game with different styles, some are absolute monarchy and constitutional monarchy. All in all, its a very fun game and we recommend it to everybody.
Waiting for support on the gen 6.
Please make United States a playable faction in campaign!!!!!!! Its a proven fact America has became independent. Its not as fun playing a separate mode that ends just to play as United States. This would be a very popular move!!! Please we beg you.
After playing this, none of the other total wars feel the same anymore we look forward to upcoming updates knowing whatever we could possibly complain about you guys will perfect . We dont know how it can be done but a Native American faction choice included in the main Campaign would go Far!! Not only would it be the most challenging but the most unique.
We love it. We would love for more total war games to come to ios.
We bought 3 of the total war games Rome/medival/Empire and we started watching YouTube videos of people playing Shogun 2 The games are awesome but if you have the chance can you add shogun 2 to mobile.
Great game, we just wished the minor factions were unlocked.
Love this game and the ww2 one also the Rome and medieval total war can you make a Vietnam game with the helicopters and m16 yall make great games.
Having Napoleon Total War on IOS would be so amazing whenever the day comes.
Incredible port we think the ui is the best because of everything being more compressed in bigger is better to read then the original game on pc. We love how everything in the region is visible in the city page.
So we love this game. But there are 2 things. First why when the men reload there muskets. Why do they do like 20 taps with there ramrod. In irl you only need 2 taps and also pls a warpath campaign we beg you swear we need it. Other than those things its a great game.
We loved Empire total war on PC but notice something on iOS, we saw most of the original DLC in the iPhone version and was wondering if you plan on adding the Warpath campaign.
Simply Perfect we just hope we get more content in the future.
Why can we not play as Denmark? Why can we only play as some in custom battles and why do we not get citizens or Flock and it it makes no sense. You already have the code for everything so why not just put the code into the custom battle, we would really like this feature.
We love the game was awesome to play we just really hope they add more even if its a separate dlc pack or game Ill buy it we just want more add to this underrated game # take our money already.
Will you Please Add Napoleons Old Guard In The Game maybe in an Update? And Please it would be appreciated and greatly thank you.
As the title says this is a major issue! Its making no sense how enemies armies reinforcements rarely come from a sensible direction. They keep sawing behind our army when they should be behind their allies. We dont understand how this is even possible.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.7.1
- Size: 1,872.25 MB
- iOS: 17.0 or later
- Languages: CS, EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, PL, RU, ES
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence, Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor, Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References
- Developer: Feral Interactive Ltd
Last updated: 20th October 2025 | Genre: Strategy | Developer: Feral Interactive Ltd