Age of Wonders II: The Wizard's Throne
Fair · RPG · 2010
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Fair at $2.49, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Jan 2013. Buy it now if you want it.
- Length
- 52.2h 145.5h to 100%
- Value
- $0.05/hr
- Reviews
- 83% of 414 positive
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It is 75% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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About the game
Age of Wonders II is the wildly anticipated sequel to the award-winning strategy phenomenon. Delivering an invigorating mix of Empire Building, Role-playing, and Warfare, Age of Wonders II brings s turn-based strategy to new heights.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 61 MB of memory, DirectX compatible graphic card, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 107 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today's $2.49 at 75 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 9 percent on value. It is pricier than 62 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 80 percent. Among the games that feel like it, ENDLESS Legend™ ($29.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Age of Wonders ($1.49, scores 51).
More about Age of Wonders II: The Wizard's Throne
1 of the 203 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.
Finishing takes 52.2 hours; clearing it takes 146, which is 2.8 times the campaign.
Players
- Players online
- 13 when we last checked, on Oct 5, 13:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
9 out of 10 dentists recommend bruhing your teeth. I grew up on this game and i think it is great but it is awkward at times and hard to understand. Yes i recommend it but it is a hard sell. Its just RISK but with middle earth races, and you are wizards. Honestly hate the new direction of AoW 3 and 4. Not a fan of the Civilizations feel they give.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
It's an old game, with all the caveats that come with that. It feels clunky and occasionally slow, it can have issues with operating, the story is simplistic, etc- but it's charming, and it's a classic. Worth a playthrough at least once, for anyone who either wanted to play it but missed it decades ago, or anyone who really likes strategy and wants to know the roots of the genre today.
I played the first one when it was brand new on the Best Buy shelf. This one came out later in life when I was playing "other stuff", so I was looking forward to playing it. Bottom line I can't play in Fullscreen and when you enlarge window mode is screws up the map scrolling using the mouse so you have to use your keyboard arrows (ackward). So that leaves me playing in a small windowed box that feels like I am...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Age of Wonders II: The Wizard's Throne scores 62/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/61510/age-of-wonders-ii-the-wizard-s-throneReviews 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 Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.