Total War: Warhammer 3

Management thought the Realm of Chaos was its hot-desking floor, but Fraser Brown knows better and is perma-working from home...

-  Fraser Brown

SPECS

Minimum

OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 64-bit

CPU: Intel Core i3 4130 or AMD Ryzen

Memory: 8GB

HDD: 125GB

GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 or AMD Radeon RX 470, Vram 4GB

Notes: Requires Vulkan, NVIDIA driver 470.xx, AMD Mesa driver version 21.0.3. Intel GPUs aren’t supported.

Recommended

CPU: Intel Core i7 4770 or AMD Ryzen

GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 or AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT, 8GB Vram

The Total War series has grown from feudal Japanese battles and a simple board game-style campaign to this, Warhammer 3, where armies can hop between realities, where daemons and ogres clash, and where troops are led by flying monstrosities including one that's as customisable as an RPG protagonist.

Creative Assembly has crammed plenty of surprises and oddities into this final act, clearly saving up its strangest experiments for the cataclysmic confrontation between mortals and Chaos. It takes some strange directions, but fully commits to Warhammer's wonderfully over-the-top brand of fantasy.

The impetus for the conflict is a bear-napping. Ursun, Kislev's hairiest deity, has been imprisoned by the daemon Be'lakor. He's also been shot with a cursed bullet by a corrupted Kislev prince. His roars of anguish open up rifts between realities, enabling armies to cross over to the Realm of Chaos, where they can fight to reach Ursun some to free him, some to request a boon and others to steal his power.