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Napoleon: Total War

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Napoleon: Total War
Napoleon: Total War cover
Developers
Creative Assembly
macOS (OS X) Feral Interactive
Publishers
Sega
OS X Feral Interactive
Engines
Warscape
Release dates
Windows February 23, 2010
macOS (OS X) July 3, 2013
Reception
Metacritic 81
IGDB 83
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase, DLC
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time, Turn-based
Perspectives Bird's-eye view, Free-roaming camera
Controls Menu-based, Multiple select, Point and select
Genres RTS, TBS
Vehicles Naval/watercraft
Themes Historical
Series Total War
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Napoleon: Total War is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view and free-roaming camera RTS and TBS game in the Total War series.

General information

Official forums
Official support page
Total War Center - A large fan site for the series with an active modding community
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Developer website
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Collection bundle including all the DLC.
macOS (OS X)
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Definitive Edition.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Humble Store
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Definitive Edition.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Mac App Store
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Definitive Edition.
macOS (OS X)
Steam
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Definitive Edition.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
All Windows versions require Steam DRM.
A demo is available on Steam.

Version differences

The Definitive Edition includes the base game and all DLCs.

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
HMS Elephant
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Grand Battery of the Convention
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Towarczys
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Royal Scots Greys
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Heroes of the Napoleonic Wars
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Elite Regiment
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Imperial Guard Pack
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Coalition Battle Pack
Windows
macOS (OS X)
The Peninsular Campaign
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Community Reward Unit
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Imperial Eagle Pack
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Spiral Knights: Imperial Tricorne
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %APPDATA%\The Creative Assembly\Napoleon\
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/34030/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %APPDATA%\The Creative Assembly\Napoleon\save_games\
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/34030/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video

Video settings.
Video settings.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
All game's menus and UIs does not scale with resolution and are super small in 4K.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Control settings.
Control settings.

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
No option to invert y-axis camera control on mouse middle-click using the 'Classic Total War Camera'.
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Czech
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Japanese release.
Polish
Russian
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer is not cross-platform.[1]

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
LAN play
2 Co-op, Versus
Online play
2 Co-op, Versus

Issues fixed

No sound in-game

Delete script files[2]
  1. Go to %APPDATA%\The Creative Assembly\Napoleon\scripts
  2. Delete preferences.script.txt

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9.0c
Metal support
Added in October 2019.
Shader Model support 2.0b
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Support for 64-bit was added in October 2019.[3]

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP SP2
Processor (CPU) 2 GHz Dual Core or 2.6 GHz Single Core
System memory (RAM) 1 GB (XP)
2 GB (Vista/7)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 21 GB
Video card (GPU) 256 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible
Shader model 2.0b support
macOS (OS X)
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 10.11 (10.15 for Metal version)
Processor (CPU) Intel 2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 30 GB
Video card (GPU) 256 MB of VRAM
Intel HD Graphics 3000/4000, Nvidia GeForce 9400 and 320M require 8GB of RAM.


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/34030/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (34030) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References