Total War Battles: Kingdom takes epic war strategy franchise to free-to-play mobile

Total War Battles: Kingdom will soon be able to find you wherever you play games. The free-to-play epic battle-strategy game from Sega’s The Creative Assembly studio will debut across a whole series of platforms, and it is already available on the PC.

The Total War series has been around for 15 years as a strategy game on the PC. It has the distinct design of letting you maneuver your armies on a strategic map and then zooming in on a 3D battlefield when two armies meet in combat. Total War Battles: Kingdom is the 14th title in a series that has spawned rabid fans, who typically play each game for more than 100 hours. The Kingdom title is an attempt to take a hardcore PC game series and make it available in a new, lightweight form that can be played on any digital platform, from the PC to tablets. That may be a way to make it even more of a blockbuster. To date, more than 20 million Total War games and 10 million add-on packs have sold; in 2015, there were 1 million monthly active Total War players.