2011 · Strategy
How long isTotal War: SHOGUN 2?
by CREATIVE ASSEMBLY & Feral Interactive (Mac)
55 hours
for the typical playerhalf of them between 15 hours and 170 hours
65% recommend it at 0 to 2 hours
86% recommend it at 2 to 5 hours
89% recommend it at 5 to 10 hours
92% recommend it at 10 to 20 hours
93% recommend it at 20 to 50 hours
94% recommend it at 50 to 100 hours
95% recommend it at 100 to 200 hours
95% recommend it at 200 to 500 hours
95% recommend it past 500 hours
Does Total War: SHOGUN 2 hold up?
It grows on people: 86% recommend it at 2–5 hours, and 95% past 500 hours.
How long would it take you?
Your Steam profile link or name: where you are in Total War: SHOGUN 2, and how long the rest is at your own pace. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.
@foxworks holds this page
- 1st
@foxworks4 h - 2nd
@testuser13.8 h - 3rdopen– – –
Public pages here, by the hours Steam has on this game. From two hours up, the most hours holds the page.
Do the first two hours of Total War: SHOGUN 2 tell you?
In the first two hours65%recommend it
After that93%recommend it
16 of every 20 thumbs-down came after the window had closed, 4 while a refund was still possible.
5% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 65% of those recommend it. After the window, 93% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 79% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 18 hours in.
Total War: SHOGUN 2 grows on you

Grows on you
86% of its Steam reviewers recommend it at 2–5 hours played, and 95% past 500 hours played.
Earned when the share recommending a game rises 8 points or more from its first stage past the two-hour mark to its last, never falls 5 points on the way, and at least 80% of all its Steam reviewers recommend it. Every game that holds it.
Made this game? Put the seal on your site.
<a href="https://www.videogamebacklog.com/game/total-war-shogun-2#seals"><img src="https://www.videogamebacklog.com/game/total-war-shogun-2/seal/grows-on-you.png" width="160" height="160" alt="Total War: SHOGUN 2: Grows on you. 86% of its Steam reviewers recommend it at 2–5 hours played, and 95% past 500 hours played."></a>Did everyone who owns Total War: SHOGUN 2 play it?
42 of 90
Steam libraries read here that own it never launched it
How well is Total War: SHOGUN 2 remembered?
1 in 59
Name 100 runs say its name, 1.7% of them: players asked to name 100 games from memory.
How this page counts
- The hours
- Half of its Steam reviewers had played 55 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 15 hours and 170 hours. One bead is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 68,200 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.
- Everyone's copy
- Counted from the Steam libraries read here, not from all of Steam's players.