Century: Age of Ashes

Century: Age of Ashes

Skip · Multiplayer · 2021

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The verdict

SKIP IT.

The reviews do not carry it. What it costs you is time.

PriceS
Free to play
Reviews▼
74% of 18,401
Genre rank
Top 35% Multiplayer

Holding it back: Monetization, DRM

Time and effort

Typical playtime
8.4h
To 100%
170.8h 20.3x the story
Finish
4% reach the ending
Achievements
33

Players and genre

Online
39 now
Better reviewed
62% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

78% start to 1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

A game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

Against its own genre its score lands in the top 35 percent. It is better reviewed than 62 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Teeworlds (free, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats Predecessor (free, scores 27).

It is still busy. 39 players were online when we last checked, on Nov 1, 10:45 UTC, across 35 days of weekly checks. Free to start. PCGamingWiki lists loot boxes in it, the aggressive kind of in-app purchase.

More about Century: Age of Ashes

Inside the two-hour refund window, 75 percent of the 105 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it. It carries the aggressive kind of in-app purchases, and the score already docks it for that.

HowLongToBeat players log 8.4 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 171, 20 times as much.

Buy now or wait

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

Raising the score
Cost per hourFree
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reach3.5M+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). A free game has no price to weigh, so this is its value read
Holding it back
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
MonetizationLoot box
Loot boxes / pay-to-win drag the score down
DRMThird-party DRM
Third-party copy protection, a small friction discount
For context
RefundsFree
A free game cannot be refunded, so the label never applies
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score
In-app purchasesLoot boxPCGamingWiki

About the game

Century: Age of Ashes is a free-to-play multiplayer dragon shooter. Master a growing roster of classes and dragons, compete in intense arena battles and rule the skies in fast-paced aerial combats.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 760 or AMD RX 560, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Century: Age of Ashes scores 35/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/918570/century-age-of-ashes
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 5. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Details

DeveloperPlaywing LTD
PublisherPlaywing LTD
GenreMultiplayer
Released2021
Players3.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements33