Through the Ages
Worth it · Strategy · 2018
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $15.99.
- Length
- 2.3h
- Value
- $6.95/hr
- Reviews
- 91% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 3000, 246 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Legendary board game classic from award winning designer Vlaada Chvátil
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
March 2020 is where it bottomed out, at $7.99. 42 discounts in the 9 years on record. They run about 38 percent off, roughly 9 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 3 percent on value. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Wingspan ($7.99, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats Twilight Struggle ($9.99, scores 49).
1 of the 436 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 67 percent of the 111 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 2.3 hours; clearing it takes 193, which is 84 times the campaign.
The drop-off
76% start to <1% 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
60 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 04:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Probably the best digital board game adaptation out there. People might not know this but CGE (the publisher of the original board game) maintains full control over their board game apps, developing them in-house. I don't know of any other publisher doing that, and it really makes a difference. Contrary to its inspiration (Sid Meier's Civilization) TtA has an excellent tutorial and it implements the game so well...
Really well designed balanced game. At first it appears very complicated, but please give it a chance.
One of the worse games in existence. Gemini described the game as permitting "last minute muggings" and a "Punishment Engine" instead of a Civ-Builder. Players above Lvl 40 will game the system and stock up on Patriotisms and stone and a 10 strength tactic and in the last 3 turns of the game, they will surprise launch into endless wars, quadrupling their tactic and spitefully singling one player for a relentless...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Through the Ages scores 74/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/758370/through-the-agesReviews 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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