Age of Empires II (Retired)
Short description
Age of Empires II has been re-imagined in high definition. With the release of Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition, this product will not be updated further.
- Developer
- Ensemble Studios, Forgotten Empires, Hidden Path Entertainment, Skybox Labs
- Publisher
- Xbox Game Studios
- Release
- Tue, Apr 09, 2013
- Price
- $19.99
- Reviews
- 84,879
- Positive
- 96%
- Followers
- 189,039
- Owners (estimated)
- 5M – 10M
- Concurrent players
- 2,278
- Genres
- Strategy
- Features
- Multi-player, Steam Trading Cards, Captions available, Steam Workshop, Stats, Steam Leaderboards, Includes level editor
- Tags
Review count and SteamSpy's owner range agree well enough to narrow the estimate down to this band. Multiplied by the $19.99 launch price — there is not enough price history for this game to weight the copies by what they actually sold for. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
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Media
History
69 data points since Aug 1, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.
The revenue curve is an estimate, not a measurement. It is the only calculated series here: each interval takes the review growth of that period, multiplies it by the sales-per-review factor and by the price actually charged at the time, and adds the result to the running total. That is why it climbs more slowly through discount periods than the review curve next to it. The last point is the same figure quoted above — gross, before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
The blurred area is the rest of the history. 245 further data points reach back to Mar 7, 2013 — your plan shows the last 90 days of it. How far each series in particular reaches is written on its own chart; not every one of them goes back that far. The shape in the blurred area is decoration, not data: the figures are not in this page at all. Plus unlocks the complete series.
Lowest recorded price: $2.99 on Jun 19, 2015.
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| Image | Name | Studio | Shared | Tag difference | Price | Reviews | Positive | Released | Revenue (estimated) |
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Rise of Nations: Extended Edition | Big Huge Games 3 titles +1 | 5 | − Medieval + Nostalgia | $19.99 | 13,413 | 95% | Thu, Jun 12, 2014 | $20m $20m – $21.5m |
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Cossacks: Back to War | GSC Game World 13 titles | 5 | − Medieval + War | $4.99 | 2,639 | 88% | Thu, Sep 02, 2010 | $998k $998k – $1.1m |
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Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition | Forgotten Empires 8 titles +5 | 4 | − Medieval − Classic + City Builder + Base-Building | $34.99 | 159,774 | 95% | Thu, Nov 14, 2019 | $175m $112m – $175m |
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Age of Mythology: Extended Edition | Forgotten Empires 8 titles +2 | 4 | − Medieval − Historical + Mythology + Nostalgia | $29.99 | 31,901 | 93% | Thu, May 08, 2014 | $60m $60m – $76.5m |
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Command & Conquer Remastered Collection | Petroglyph 8 titles +1 | 4 | − Medieval − Historical + Base-Building + Great Soundtrack | $19.99 | 31,604 | 91% | Fri, Jun 05, 2020 | $28.4m $20m – $40m |
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