Age of Wonders 4
Fair · RPG · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Fair at $24.99, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Mar 2023. Buy it now if you want it.
- Length
- 20.7h
- Value
- $1.21/hr
- Reviews
- 81% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 50% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 40% ($29.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 50% ($24.99)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 35 GB of storage. Windows only.
Rule a fantasy realm of your own design! Explore new magical realms in Age of Wonders’ signature blend of 4X strategy and turn-based tactical combat. Control a faction that grows and changes as you expand your empire with each turn!
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
The lowest price on record is $24.99, set in September 2025. 27 discounts in the 4 years on record. They run about 35 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today's $24.99 at 50 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
On value it sits in the top 10 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 79 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition ($44.99, scores 92) beats it on value, while it beats Age of Wonders III ($29.99, scores 57).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 10 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written October 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 58 percent of the 862 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (cosmetic); the score docks it lightly for that.
The main story runs 20.7 hours. Doing everything runs 150, 7.2 times as long.
1.4K players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 06:46 UTC, 3 years after release.
The drop-off
72% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
1,406 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 06:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
After starting then restarting the game multiple times, I finally won my game in Age of Wonders 4. I must say with any new game, turning a win condition into tangible steps of realizing them is not easy. But if you stay patient, play it a couple times, you will see reaching victory is not as time consuming as you would think. The biggest draw is the fantasy setting, and there are so much related to spell books that...
Fun 4x game with lots of content. Custom maps, champions, civilizations; Transform, evolve, rank-up in game Godir "Heros" and units, to your own creation in game. I love all the DLC's. Its a massive game so a nice PC would run the AI smoother for lager maps. I have a Basic gaming computer and plays well on high graphics. Operating System: Windows 11 CPU Brand: AMD Ryzen 7 5700G with Radeon Graphics RAM: 31 GB Video...
Ive had this game on my radar for a long time because I love 4X, but it did not capture me. I would describe it as a combat-focused game with some strategy tacked onto it. Which is fine if you are into that, but I typically play these games for empire management. Everything you do in this game is for bettering the combat. You research combat improvements and you get gear for combat improvements and you build...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Age of Wonders 4 scores 58/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1669000/age-of-wonders-4Reviews 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 Sep 19, price as of Oct 1.
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