Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition
Worth it · Strategy · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 65% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$39.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$15.9960% offWorth it
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.42/hr
- Reviews▼
- 86% of 96,702
- Critics
- 81 players 5 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 4% Strategy
Holding it back: Reviews, Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $15.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 28.1h
- To 100%
- 168h 6.0x the story
- Finish
- 6% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 175
Price and sales
- Sales
- 33 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $13.99 September 2025
- Sale every
- 53d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 8,702 now
- Recent reviews
- 80% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 1% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 90% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
94% start to 6% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 33 times in the 5 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 4 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition ($34.99, scores 90) beats it on value, while it beats Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition ($34.99, scores 70).
More about Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition
Steam's global achievement data puts about 6 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 28.1-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 6 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2026 to October 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,604 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,088 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 64 percent of the 2,675 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
28.1 hours to finish it, 168 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 6.0 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
This game is really good perhaps it could have been even better but the campaign is excellent the multiplayer is superb, and it easily offers over 100 hours of content.
2 more reviews
If you're contemplating 2, 3, or 4: 2 has a larger player base and it's more competitive in the mainstream. That said - 4 is the better game for the player. Why? See below... PRO: This game has a single player with a stellar story and documentary style reenactments to set the stage for the battles and historical context. Multiplayer is why this game is leagues better than the previous 2 titles. The reason...
the best historical RTS, one of those games you might learn something about another culture if you pay enough attention lol
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About the game
Celebrating its first year of delighting millions of global players, the award-winning and best-selling strategy franchise continues with Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition, putting you at the center of even more epic historical battles that shaped the world.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Intel HD 520 or AMD Radeon RX Vega 11, 50 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition scores 73/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1466860/age-of-empires-iv-anniversary-editionReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 5, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.