Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition
Worth it · Strategy · 2020
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $34.99.
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.60/hr
- Reviews▼
- 86% of 55,463
- Critics
- 75 players 11 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 5% Strategy
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Monetization
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 21.9h
- To 100%
- 91.7h 4.2x the story
- Achievements
- 121
Price and sales
- Sales
- 1 on record
- Typical cut
- 10% off
- Steam low
- $31.49 October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 2,986 now
- Recent reviews
- 80% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 2% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 90% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
70% start to <1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has gone on sale once in the 86 days tracked here, most recently in October 2026. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 5 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition ($39.99, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats War Selection (free, scores 63).
More about Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition
Critics scored it 75. Players sit 11 points higher at 86 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
1 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2024 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 54 percent of the 2,649 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 7 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 21.9 hours; clearing it takes 92, which is 4.2 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $31.49 (10% off). Predictions like this were right 87% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
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
this used to be the best online competitive RTS of all time. It had the best combination of "base building" and "strategic warfare". It was very different from AoE1 / AoE 2 / AoE 4. it had a unique shipping system and a unique unit counter-composition. You really had to have game knowledge to get good at the game. Clutch Micro with 5 Cavalery units at the right time and place could've turned a whole game around. We...
2 more reviews, 2 not recommended
Game itself is fine but with baltic power DLC, they destroy the server U need 5-6 times rehosting the lobby with the constant crash and after waiting an excruciating amount of time to get people that arent brain dead, the game crasshes saying it out of sync whatever the hell that means it happen randomly, and up until now there isnt a solution, previous update also like this but wasnt as bad as this.
It would ban people due to the speech. It has a good gameplay but it has a dedicated speech sensor department as well. Gameplay 70, sensorship worse than Russia -100, not recommended.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Lead powerful civilizations across the globe, master strategies and tactics, and relive history in co op battles—now remastered in stunning 4K and modernized gameplay.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 42 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition scores 70/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/933110/age-of-empires-iii-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 7, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.