Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition
Last updated: 2025-12-31
- Timeless and replayable gameplay experience
- Stunning graphical remaster enhances visuals
- Abundant content with rich campaigns
- Broken pathfinding and AI behavior issues
- Frequent game crashes and instability problems
- Overpriced and low-quality DLC offerings
Emotions
Frustration21%Nostalgia12%Disappointment10%Satisfaction10%Excitement6%
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Very Positive (8/10)
- Total reviews
- 171,905
- Positive
- 163,17694.9%
- Negative
- 8,7295.1%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 12,053,284
- Estimated revenue
- $421,744,407
- Game price
- $35
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 320.21%
- Estimated copies lost
- 2,244
- Estimated revenue lost
- $78,518
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 320.2% Avg playtime 0.8h | 770.5% Avg playtime 1h |
| > 2h playtime | 8625.6% Avg playtime 525.7h | 14,52593.7% Avg playtime 378.4h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 6.9 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 42.9 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 339.7 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 2,238.9 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
15,496 total
Organic purchasers12,97283.7%
Voted up: 94%
Key activations2,52416.3%
Voted up: 94%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
15,496 total
First impression0-2h2081.34%
Voted up: 78%
Mid game2-10h2,22114.3%
Voted up: 96%
Late game10-20h1,65510.7%
Voted up: 95%
Endgame20h+11,41273.6%
Voted up: 94%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
93.3%
Global baseline 94.2%
30 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 171,905 total.