Rise of Nations: Extended Edition
BANGER · Strategy · 2014
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $19.99.
- Length
- 19.8h
- Value
- $1.01/hr
- Reviews
- 95% 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 $3.99, set in June 2016. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 76 in the 12 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. The nearest things to it, Age of Mythology: Extended Edition ($29.99, scores 84) and Stronghold 3 Gold ($29.99, scores 2), are both worse buys on this math.
The math says it holds its tier up to $22.88, and you are being asked for $19.99.
Of the 605 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 12 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 81 percent of the 927 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 19.8 hours. Doing everything runs 69, 3.5 times as long.
12 years after release it still had 522 people in it at once.
The drop-off
79% 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
522 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
These nations are extremely balanced: -Russia has increased attrition within ALL borders. -Egypt has EXPONENTIAL food/wonder bonuses -Bantu have an AMAZING population perk. -Chinese can create citizens INSTANTLY. -Romans save 25% on a fort. 10/25%off Would play as Romans again.
A Classic. Rise of Nations was the first RTS I ever played, so this game will always have a special place in my heart. I still remember spending hours building my civilization, advancing through the ages, expanding my territory, and getting completely lost in the game. It was one of those games that made me fall in love with the RTS genre in the first place. Even now, coming back to it brings back a lot of memories...
It's an old game but a classic. The graphics suck now compared to newer games but, its still addicting and 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.
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Rise of Nations: Extended Edition scores 88/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/287450/rise-of-nations-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 13, price as of Sep 24.
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