2019 · RTS · City Builder · Base Building
How long isAge of Empires II: Definitive Edition?
by World's Edge & Forgotten Empires
32 hours
for the typical playerhalf of them between 10 hours and 120 hours
Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition among the 201 real-time strategy games here
The whole tier list#2
of 201
ranked by owners here who played past two hours
- 71%
- got past 2 hours
- +37 on the kind's 35%
- 34%
- past 20 hours
- +28 on the kind's 6%
- 88%
- launched it
- +38 on the kind's 50%
- 235
- libraries own it
- 1 in 11 of the 2,519 read here
Next to it in the ranking
Long for a real-time strategy game: 32 hours for the typical player, longer than 220 of 233 real-time strategy games here.
81% recommend it at 0 to 2 hours
95% recommend it at 2 to 5 hours
96% recommend it at 5 to 10 hours
96% recommend it at 10 to 20 hours
96% recommend it at 20 to 50 hours
96% recommend it at 50 to 100 hours
95% recommend it at 100 to 200 hours
94% recommend it at 200 to 500 hours
91% recommend it past 500 hours
Does Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition hold up?
Wears thin
Do the first two hours of Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition tell you?
In the first two hours81%recommend it
After that95%recommend it
5 in 100 said no: 4 after the window had closed, 1 while a refund was still possible.
How this is counted
Half of its Steam reviewers had played 32 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 10 hours and 120 hours.
One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 184,000 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.
It is recommended most by players at 20–50 hours: 96% of them. Among players past 500 hours that falls to 91%.
3% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 81% of those recommend it. After the window, 95% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 90% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 33 hours in.
When would you get there?
5weeks
At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 32 hours on Wednesday, December 16.
Half of its reviewers had played between 10 and 120 hours: Nov 24 to Mar 14, 2027 at this pace.
How this is counted
The typical player's hours are the hours Steam reviewers had played when they wrote their review, not a time to beat. The days count from today, playing the hours the pace says on each day.
How far do players get in Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition?
Launched it 100%
Earned its most common achievement 54%
Earned a typical achievement 1.6%
How this is counted
Steam's global achievement stats, as shares of players who launched it. They are not a finish rate.
Is Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition worth it?
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One hour, at list price
Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition
- Steam list price, US
- $34.99
- Typical player
- ÷ 32 h
- real-time strategy game rate
- $1.75/h
- 32 h at that rate
- $56
List price. Not a sale price,
not what anyone paid.
Is Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition worth it? Mostly.
Good value
1.6× the hours of a typical real-time strategy game, for the same money
Loved
95% recommend it after the refund windowmost real-time strategy games: 87%
Gets played
88% of owners here have played itmost real-time strategy games: 59%
How this is counted
At Steam's US list price of $34.99, the typical player's 32 hours come to $1.09 an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 95% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. At $1.09 an hour, Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition is cheaper per hour than 163 of 233 real-time strategy games here: the typical one of 233 real-time strategy games here charges $1.75, so the same $34.99 buys 1.6× the hours.
The price is Steam's US list price for the game by itself: not a sale price, a bundle or what anyone paid. The hours are the ones its reviewers had played, not a time to beat. Its kind (real-time strategy games) is what the game is first, as a model that knows games named it once from a list of Steam's kinds (for a game it did not know, its strongest Steam tags name it), among the kinds with at least 20 priced games here; failing that, by its Steam genre. The going rate is the middle hourly cost of those games, and the receipt prices its typical hours at it. The words beside it compare it with its kind: loved is 90% recommending it or more, liked 80%, mixed 65%; it gets played when a quarter fewer of the owners read here never launched it than of its kind's typical game. Whether it holds up is drawn on the hours road above, and counts toward the one-word answer.
Where can I play Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition today?
Almost anywhere
PC, PS5, Xbox Series and Xbox One.
- todayXbox Series2023
- todayXbox One2023
- todayPS52025
- todayPC2026
How this is counted
From IGDB, found by its Steam app: the machines Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition came out on and the year it first reached each, and the collections, ports, remasters and remakes that carry it. A machine counts for today while it, or the one after it, still plays its games and its store sells them: Switch, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series, PC and phones. A PC release from before 2005 counts as gone, unless Steam sells it. IGDB does not say when a store stopped selling a release, so a delisted one can still show here.
Would you like Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition?
Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition would take you. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.
How this is counted
It reads how long you tend to stay: across every game you've played whose typical hours it knows (free games left out), how often you went past the typical player and how often you left before half their hours. It glows when you often stay past them, dims when you often leave early, and needs five played games to read at all. Then it shows the games you own most like this one, by the same measure as the shelf of games like it, each with your hours against the typical player's.
Why not a forecast for this game: on 36,766 Steam libraries, how a player did on games like one told little beyond how long they stay in games at all, so those games are shown as evidence and never scored. Nothing of the library is kept.
@ash holds this page
- 1st
@ash214 h - 2nd
@nervoser-owo92 h - 3rd
@darthvader768 h - 4th
@xpel28 h - 5th
@sakamdi17 h - 6th
@drezel4.3 h - 7th
@poor-leno4.2 h - 8th
@eltorga3.6 h
Public pages here, by the hours Steam has on this game. From two hours up, the most hours holds the page.
What did people here do with Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition?
1 in 726
Name 100 runs say its name: players asked to name 100 games from memory
How this is counted
Counted from the Steam libraries read here and the pages kept here, not from all of Steam's players. A case is one owner, or one in twenty of them when there are more.
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Loved · 95%Games like Rise of Nations: Extended Edition
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Loved · 98%Games like Stronghold Crusader HD
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Age of Empires II, but a quarter of the hours, and more divisive
Mixed · 79%Games like Ancestors Legacy
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How this is counted
Its own series apart, where it plays alike; then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the better known ahead among the about as alike. A model that knows games read the list once: the ones it said do not play like this game are left out, the closest come first. Under each name, what sets it apart from Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition: a kind of game it is that Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition is not, a feature its tags carry that Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition's barely do, how many hours people play it, how its reviewers feel. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.