Age of History II
Worth it · Strategy · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $0.89.
- Length
- 30.4h
- Value
- $0.03/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Hardware Accelerated Graphics with dedicated memory, 379 MB of storage. Windows only.
Age of History II is a grand strategy wargame that is simple to learn yet hard to master.Your objective is to use military tactics and cunning diplomacy to either unify the world, or conquer it.Will the world bleed out or bow before you? The choice is yours..
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The value story
September 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $0.89. It has been discounted 69 times in the 8 years tracked here, typically at 15 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today's $0.89 at 85 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 95 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Sid Meier's Civilization® IV ($19.99, scores 87) beats it on value, while it beats Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition ($19.99, scores 62).
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 22 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 58 percent of the 2,078 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
8 years after release it still had 513 people in it at once.
The drop-off
45% start to 5% 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
513 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
I spent so man hours playing this game lmao. was great back in the day but is outshined by age of history 3, still a great entry level map game, nowhere near as complex as hoi4.
Very addictive but also a very simple map game for people who aren't good enough for HOI4, just like me.
Желаю здоровья и благополучия отцу, матери, сестре, брату, тетям и дядям (как со стороны отца, так и со стороны матери), бабушкам, дедушкам и предкам создателя этого шедевра.
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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Age of History II scores 82/100 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/603850/age-of-history-iiThe 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 14, price as of Sep 24.
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