Age of History II
Worth it · Strategy · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $2.99.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.10/hr
- ReviewsA
- 90% of 50,801
- Genre rank
- Top 2% Strategy
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 30.4h
- To 100%
- 51.8h 1.7x the story
- Achievements
- 21
Price and sales
- Sales
- 71 on record
- Typical cut
- 20% off
- Steam low
- $0.89 September 2026
- Sale every
- 35d last November 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 247 now
- Recent reviews
- 85% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 54% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 95% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
43% start to 5% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
September 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $0.89. It has been discounted 71 times in the 8 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 20 percent, about 5 weeks apart.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 2 percent. It is better reviewed than 95 percent of its genre. The nearest things to it, Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition ($19.99, scores 62) and Old World ($39.99, scores 53), are both worse buys on this math.
More about Age of History II
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 19 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2025 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 58 percent of the 2,159 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
To put it in a few words, it's the poor man's HOI4. A classic grand strategy game that deserves its place in your library, especially for the price I bought it (less than a euro).
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
This is a Paradox game for people who are too dumb or attention deficit to play Paradox games (me). Helps that it doesn't rip itself apart across dozens of DLC packs too. Very simplistic, pretty buggy, none of the gameplay/historical nuances of a Crusader Kings or Europa Universalis, but for 89 cents it kept me entertained for a good bit. 10/10 would unify the British Isles under an Irish monarchy again
i wasted 82 hours on this game, dont be like me and go outside or study with your time
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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..
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Hardware Accelerated Graphics with dedicated memory, 379 MB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Age of History II scores 82/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/603850/age-of-history-iiReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 7, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.