Age of Empires II (Retired)
Fair · Strategy · 2013
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Reviews
- 96% of 102,898 positive
Watch this gameOne alert when a sale makes it a BANGER.
Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 1383 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Strategy game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
About the game
Age of Empires II has been re-imagined in high definition. With the release of Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition, this product will not be updated further.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Direct X 9.0c Capable GPU, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 33 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 10 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 198 weeks ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 7 percent on value. It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 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 Stronghold 3 Gold ($29.99, scores 2).
More about Age of Empires II (Retired)
68 from critics against 96 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
4 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2021 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 83 percent of the 4,038 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
102,898 people have reviewed it, which is a big enough crowd to settle the number.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
78% 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
No data upstream: length (HowLongToBeat).
Cite this score
Age of Empires II (Retired) scores 62/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. Length is estimated at 8 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/221380/age-of-empires-ii-retiredReviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 7, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.