Grand Ages: Rome
Skip · Strategy · 2009
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $9.99.
- Length
- 26.6h
- Value
- $0.38/hr
- Reviews
- 75% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 128 MB 3d Video Card (GeForce 6600/Radeon 9600 or better), 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
As Governor of a Roman Province in the time-honoured Roman Empire, its fortune very much lies in your hands. Choose one of five Roman noble families such as Caesar’s Julii with different abilities to accomplish the comprehensive missions.
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $0.99, set in December 2016. Its cuts run 65 percent off as a rule. There have been 85 in the 14 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 26 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 70 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 60 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Tropico 5 ($19.99, scores 54) beats it on value, while it beats Stronghold Crusader 2 ($39.99, scores 38).
None of the 229 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.
The main story runs 26.6 hours. Doing everything runs 300, 11 times as long.
Players
8 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Not a bad game, until you've experienced the random burning down of your outpost... which is the reason I give it a thumbs down. In this game, you are given an outpost from which you start building everything. I spent hours building everything from citizen housing, to entertainment, goods and even a forum. Everyone was happy. My approval rating was outstanding. I was making money and gearing up to attack the enemy...
The game is great, a staple of my childhood. Recently it stopped launching. Trying to figure out why, I uninstalled the Reign of Augustus expansion and it launched fine. The moment I install again the dlc it just won't work. I've tried everything, and i've found out that plugging my laptop to a tv via hdmi makes it work. I hope they fix this issue.
I mean, it's not a new game, but it will play on anything, the graphics still hold up, at least for the buildings, and it's still fun.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Grand Ages: Rome scores 43/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/23450/grand-ages-romeThe 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 4, price as of Sep 24.
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