Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition
Last updated: 2025-12-31
- Top-tier RTS gameplay with deep strategy
- Cinematic and educational campaigns enhance experience
- Enjoyable multiplayer and engaging DLCs
- Frequent crashes disrupt gameplay stability
- Broken matchmaking and no reconnect feature
- DLC paywalls limit core content access
Emotions
Frustration29%Disappointment17%Satisfaction11%Excitement7%Nostalgia5%
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Very Positive (8/10)
- Total reviews
- 88,653
- Positive
- 76,13185.9%
- Negative
- 12,52214.1%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 6,004,808
- Estimated revenue
- $240,132,272
- Game price
- $40
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 1400.98%
- Estimated copies lost
- 9,483
- Estimated revenue lost
- $379,225
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 1401% Avg playtime 0.9h | 640.4% Avg playtime 1.1h |
| > 2h playtime | 2,12914.9% Avg playtime 371.2h | 11,93283.6% Avg playtime 285.2h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 9.4 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 42.8 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 500.6 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 1,524.9 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
14,265 total
Organic purchasers10,84076.0%
Voted up: 84%
Key activations3,42524.0%
Voted up: 84%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
14,265 total
First impression0-2h3312.32%
Voted up: 46%
Mid game2-10h2,43817.1%
Voted up: 86%
Late game10-20h1,74112.2%
Voted up: 89%
Endgame20h+9,75568.4%
Voted up: 84%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
88.2%
Global baseline 84.1%
17 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 88,653 total.