Age of Mythology: Extended Edition
Worth it · Strategy · 2014
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $29.99, a BANGER if it drops to $28.06.
- Length
- 28.6h
- Value
- $1.05/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Direct X 10+ Capable GPU, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $5.99, set in June 2016. 51 discounts in the 12 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $28.06. The record reaches that level 51 times.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Rise of Nations: Extended Edition ($19.99, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats Homeworld Remastered Collection ($34.99, scores 65).
The press gave it 66; the people who bought it give it 93 percent. A 27-point gap in the buyer's favour.
2 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2021 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 73 percent of the 1,651 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 28.6 hours. Doing everything runs 68, 2.4 times as long.
Still 804 concurrent players, 12 years in.
The drop-off
31% 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
804 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
Such an atmospheric game, a classic if you grew up with an interest in Greek mythology.
It's the bollocksing Age of Bollocksing Mythology with all the crap included, remastered graphics and just super accessible for everyone. That being said, I wrote this review for two reasons: To suck this games incredible, impossible c0ck, and also to ♥♥♥ about the fact that they made the bright colorful graphic in my steam library for this and Age of Empires II Remastered black and white simply because they aren't...
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Age of Mythology: Extended Edition scores 84/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/266840/age-of-mythology-extended-editionThe 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 12, price as of Sep 24.
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