Age of Wonders
Fair · RPG · 2010
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $5.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 23.9h
- Value
- $0.25/hr
- Reviews
- 78% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 31 MB of memory, DirectX compatible graphic card, 348 MB of storage. Windows only.
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The value story
September 2018 is where it bottomed out, at $1.19. It has been discounted 105 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 6 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 14 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 63 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 68 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Age of Wonders III ($29.99, scores 57) beats it on value, while it beats Heroes® of Might & Magic® III - HD Edition ($3.74, scores 49).
None of the 407 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 53 percent of the 213 reviews written there were positive, against 78 percent overall, and those are 24 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 23.9 hours. Doing everything runs 57, 2.4 times as long.
Players
10 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
This game has never worked for me. Unless an update is made to this game, I don't believe it will run for you. Sometime in the first chapter the game will freeze and you won't be able to play it.
This game desperatly needs an update to make it run on modern systems. As is it is now it will be a miracle if you can even get the game to start.
This game is super fun and well made. Simple, but well done. I love how you can rank up your main Hero to be literally unstoppable. The campaign is good but I love playing skirmish mostly. That's where you have longevity in this game.
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: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Age of Wonders scores 53/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/61500/age-of-wondersThe 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 5, price as of Sep 24.
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