Total War: Shogun 2 is a grand strategy title blending deep turn-based campaign management with massive real-time tactical battles, set in 16th-century Feudal Japan. Players select one of nine distinct clans, utilizing diplomacy, espionage (with agents like Ninjas), and province management to conquer rivals. The core loop involves strategic planning on a detailed campaign map followed by commanding thousands of troops in real-time combat to achieve unification as the new Shogun. Released in 2011, it offers complex simulation accessible via an intuitive interface across PC, Mac, and Linux.
The campaign map serves as the heart of the strategic simulation. Here, players manage the intricate details of their domain. This involves province building, technological research, and economic development. Diplomacy plays a crucial role, allowing for alliances, trade agreements, or calculated betrayals to gain an advantage over neighboring factions.
Success on the campaign map relies heavily on the use of special agents. These units, such as Ninja assassins or Geisha spies, can be deployed to sow discord, sabotage enemy infrastructure, or gather intelligence, adding layers of political maneuvering and covert operations to the path toward supremacy.
The game offers deep strategic choices through its clan selection; choosing between the available factions grants access to unique traits and specialized unit types, ensuring replayability across the campaign.
Beyond the core experience, the game features a significant amount of additional content, including several downloadable content packs that introduce new scenarios, units, or factions to expand the strategic possibilities within the Sengoku period setting.

Last Alliance: TW is overhaul mod to Shogun 2. This mod base on stories from Tolkien's books, concretely on wars Dúnedain and Elves against Sauron at the end of the Second Age.

The Otomo Clan Pack adds a new playable faction to Total War: SHOGUN 2 for use in single or multiplayer Campaign modes and Custom and Multiplayer Battles. Having forged an early alliance with Portuguese traders, The Otomo Clan reaps great economic and military benefits from its wealthy, gun-toting ally and in doing so, the clan has allowed Catholicism to flourish among the people of its domain.

Bolster your Sengoku-era forces with Saints and Heroes, the new Heroic Unit Pack for Total War: Shogun 2. Honed by years of relentless training and tempered in the fires of battle, these nine elite warrior units excel in their fields, and stand head-and-shoulders above their rank-and-file brothers.

The Dragon War Battle Pack consists of six consecutively-played legendary battles from the Boshin War, depicting the campaign of Saigo Takamori.

The standalone expansion to the award-winning Total War: SHOGUN 2 explores the conflict between the Imperial throne and the last Shogunate in 19th century Japan, 400 years after the events of the original game. A dramatic clash of traditional Samurai culture with the explosive power of modern weaponry. Guide ancient Japan into the modern age, as the arrival of America, Britain and France incites a ferocious civil war which will decide the future of a nation.

The Total War battle engine has been re-engineered for the ultimate in visceral conflict. Intricate new animations enable your Samurai to carve a bloody, limb-strewn path through enemy armies.

The Hattori Clan Pack includes all four unlocks previously only available in the Total War: Shogun 2 Limited Edition.

Rise of The Samurai is an, independent campaign for Total War: Shogun 2. Set 400 years before the dramatic civil war depicted in SHOGUN 2, the "Rise of The Samurai" campaign is based on the Gempei War, a conflict between six legendary clans of the Taira, Minamoto and Fujiwara families. It culminated in the first Shogunate, and the rise of the Samurai as the ruling class.

The Total War: SHOGUN 2 Sengoku Jidai Unit Pack adds 10 new elite units for use across the different game modes of SHOGUN 2. Once you've purchased the content, you will unlock all 10 of these versatile units in single and multiplayer Campaign mode under the conditions stated below. They will also be available in the Avatar Conquest and single player Battle modes of the game when playing with the appropriate clan.

The Ikko Ikki Clan Pack adds the iconic 'warrior monk' clan to Total War: Shogun 2 and a wide variety of brand-new content for use across the different game modes of Shogun 2.