Like previous titles in the Total War series, gameplay unfolds both on a scale of kingdoms in a turn-based strategy campaign, managing cities and the movement of armies, and on a smaller scale in real-time tactics skirmishes and sieges, managing the movement and actions of individual units and characters within an army during a battle. It is the 10th title in the Total War series and the first title to be released in the Total War: Warhammer trilogy. The game features the gameplay of the Total War series with factions of Games Workshop's Warhammer Fantasy series it is the first Total War game not to portray a historical setting.
The game was brought to macOS and Linux by Feral Interactive. Total War: Warhammer is a turn-based strategy and real-time tactics video game developed by Creative Assembly and published by Sega for Microsoft Windows via the Steam gaming platform.