Age of Empires II (Retired) Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-05-20
- Highly acclaimed RTS with diverse civilizations and unique units
- Engaging and fun gameplay for strategy enthusiasts
- Enduring appeal with multiplayer and various game modes
- Outdated multiplayer infrastructure and matchmaking issues
- Poor graphics quality and visual performance issues
- Lack of updates, support, and game feels outdated
Emotions
Archetypes
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Overwhelmingly Positive (9/10)
- Total reviews
- 102,551
- Positive
- 98,27295.8%
- Negative
- 4,2794.2%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 7,288,994
- Estimated revenue
- $145,706,990
- Game price
- $20
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 60.31%
- Estimated copies lost
- 426
- Estimated revenue lost
- $8,516
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 60.3% Avg playtime 0.4h | 130.7% Avg playtime 0.5h |
| > 2h playtime | 583% Avg playtime 580.6h | 1,85596% Avg playtime 499.9h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.4 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 4.3 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 27.1 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 4,692 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
1,932 total
Organic purchasers1,67186.5%
Voted up: 97%
Key activations26113.5%
Voted up: 96%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
1,932 total
First impression0-2h311.60%
Voted up: 81%
Mid game2-10h22511.6%
Voted up: 96%
Late game10-20h1939.99%
Voted up: 96%
Endgame20h+1,48376.8%
Voted up: 97%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
100.0%
Global baseline 96.7%
5 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 102,551 total.