Age of Wonders III
Fair · RPG · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $29.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 26.4h
- Value
- $1.14/hr
- Reviews
- 80% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 10 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Age of Wonders III is the long anticipated sequel to the award-winning strategy series. Delivering a unique mix of Empire Building, Role Playing and Warfare, Age of Wonders III offers the ultimate in turn-based fantasy strategy for veterans of the series and new players alike!
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $7.49, set in May 2016. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 110 in the 13 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 6 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 11 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 75 percent. Among the games that feel like it, ENDLESS Legend™ ($7.49, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Age of Wonders ($5.99, scores 53).
2 of the 407 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 36 percent of the 446 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (unlock); the score docks it lightly for that.
The main story runs 26.4 hours. Doing everything runs 145, 5.5 times as long.
The drop-off
64% start to 3% 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
163 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
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Age of Wonders III scores 57/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/226840/age-of-wonders-iiiThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 13, price as of Sep 24.
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