Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition
BANGER · Strategy · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
A BANGER today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 65% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$34.99BANGER
Typical seasonal cut
$12.2465% offBANGER
- Cost per hourS
- $0.80/hr
- ReviewsS
- 95% of 183,989
- Critics
- 84 players 11 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Strategy
Watch this gameOne alert at $12.24 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 43.7h
- To 100%
- 219.4h 5.0x the story
- Finish
- 1% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 370
Price and sales
- Sales
- 44 on record
- Typical cut
- 60% off
- Steam low
- $4.99 December 2022
- Sale every
- 53d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 20,818 now
- Recent reviews
- 94% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 2% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
55% start to 1% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 44 discounts in the 7 years tracked, the median cut is 60 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. The nearest things to it, Age of Empires: Definitive Edition ($19.99, scores 69) and Age of Empires II (Retired) ($19.99, scores 62), are both worse buys on this math.
More about Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition
Critics scored it 84. Players sit 11 points higher at 95 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 1 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 43.7-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 9 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2026 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 81 percent of the 4,473 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (cosmetic); the score docks it lightly for that.
Finishing takes 43.7 hours; clearing it takes 219, which is 5.0 times the campaign.
The rating rests on 183,989 reviews, so it is not going to move much from here.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
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
Bought a historical strategy game. Ended up learning more about medieval economics than my entire education. Villagers: working 24/7 with no salary. King: sends 200 men to die over a sheep. Enemy scout: enters my base once. My entire civilization: **PANIC.** Spent 40 minutes building an economy just to get absolutely demolished by a guy named *xX_Destroyer_Xx* who has been playing since the Bronze Age. 10/10. Would...
1 more review, not recommended
Love the game. The community is great. The devs delivered an absolute insane dlc + update. And now Microsoft executes it with giving the franchise to Activision. This is 10 times worse than just closing Worlds Edge AND Forgotten Empires together.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
42 Civilizations, 229 Campaign Missions, Singleplayer, Co-Op, Multiplayer, In-Game Editor, Mods, Cross-play...It is good to be the king.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 15 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Cite this score
Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition scores 90/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/813780/age-of-empires-ii-definitive-editionReviews 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 5, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.