Age of Wonders: Planetfall
Fair · Strategy · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $29.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 51h
- Value
- $0.59/hr
- Reviews
- 79% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 8% over the last 30 days against 79% all-time.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, nVidia GTX 650Ti 1GB or AMD Radeon HD 7770 (or equivalents), 20 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Age of Wonders: Planetfall is the new strategy game from Triumph Studios, creators of the critically acclaimed Age of Wonders series, bringing all the exciting tactical turn-based combat and in-depth empire building of its predecessors to space in an all-new, sci-fi setting.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
June 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $7.49. It has been discounted 61 times in the 8 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales.
Value puts it in the top 14 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 75 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Slipways ($16.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats Xenonauts 2 ($39.99, scores 38).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 1 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 51-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Players rate it 79 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 8 percent. Something recent has soured the room. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 4 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 58 percent of the 423 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
51 hours to finish it, 2000 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 39 times the campaign.
The drop-off
54% start to 1% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 51-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
95 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 11:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Paradox has finally found a way to make Hearts of Iron IV historically accurate! They're rewriting history in real time! On their official HOI4 Discord a player was permanently banned for having Mustafa Kemal Atatürk as a profile picture. The moderators' explanation was that Atatürk is a "controversial and polarizing figure" just like Karl Marx. Let's make sure we understand this. This is a game where you can spend...
Using "Atatürk is a controversial figure" as an excuse to target a player, followed by historically disputed claims to justify it, is unacceptable. This is an insult to the Turkish community and a serious failure in Paradox's community management. Until Paradox gives a clear and satisfactory explanation, I will not support their games. **Negative.**
Not recommended. Paradox Discord moderators made racist remarks about Atatürk and tried to present him as a controversial figure. I won't support a company whose community staff behaves like this.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Age of Wonders: Planetfall scores 52/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/718850/age-of-wonders-planetfallReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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