The Settlers® : Rise of an Empire - History Edition
Skip · Strategy · 2019
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 47, under the fair line, at $11.99.
- Length
- 21h 32.3h to 100%
- Value
- $0.57/hr
- Reviews
- 77% of 761 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Build vibrant cities in a medieval world with this modernized version of The Settlers – Rise of an Empire. Each character leads their individual lives and can be observed by you at any time. Will you go down in history as a legendary king?
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 256 MB DirectX 11–compliant card with Shader Model 4.0 or higher, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 65 times in the 8 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 21 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 74 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 66 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Becastled ($19.99, scores 48) beats it on value, while it beats Stronghold Crusader 2 ($39.99, scores 38).
More about The Settlers® : Rise of an Empire - History Edition
This site sampled 435 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 29 percent of the 116 reviews written there were positive, against 77 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.
Players
- Players online
- 42 when we last checked, on Oct 8, 20:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Fantastic game and nostalgia trip. The only downside/complaint from me is that to play it you have to install ubisoft connect and create or log in to Ubisoft in order to launch the game.
1 more review
Played this game over 15 years ago, still looks amazing and plays beautifully. I am playing on Linux (KDE Neon) and just needed to run the Ubisoft Installer with Wine (as suggested on Proton DB.) Plays flawlessly otherwise.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
The Settlers® : Rise of an Empire - History Edition scores 47/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/965310/the-settlers-rise-of-an-empire-history-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 Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.