Total War Pharaoh Steam reviews put Creative Assembly’s strategy sim at ‘mixed,’ while the TW Pharaoh player count falls below Total War Rome 2 from 2013.
Apples to oranges comparison. CA builds a lot of games under the Total War banner. Some are very big, very expensive projects (like Rome 2), others are really just a way of testing tech and training devs (like Odysseus). Pharaoh, as I understand it, falls very much into the latter category.
While the sales numbers look bad on the surface, for what it probably cost to make, I suspect CA is prefectly happy. Remember they literally gave Odysseus away for free. That’s just how their release cadence works.
Apples to oranges comparison. CA builds a lot of games under the Total War banner. Some are very big, very expensive projects (like Rome 2), others are really just a way of testing tech and training devs (like Odysseus). Pharaoh, as I understand it, falls very much into the latter category.
While the sales numbers look bad on the surface, for what it probably cost to make, I suspect CA is prefectly happy. Remember they literally gave Odysseus away for free. That’s just how their release cadence works.
I think this one is being looked at differently because after hyenas people are wondering if the studio is dead or not