# Age of Empires II \(Retired\)

Summer DB entity ID: ab10eb16\-df67\-4ae0\-b487\-06aa9e961748

Steam App ID: 221380

With the release of Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition in 2019, this edition is not the most current and will not be updated further\.    In Age of Empires II: HD Edition, fans of the original game and new players alike will fall in love with the classic Age of Empires II experience\.  Explore all the original single player campaigns from both Age of Kings and The Conquerors expansion, choose from 18 civilizations spanning over a thousand years of history, and head online to challenge other Steam players in your quest for world domination throughout the ages\.  Originally developed by Ensemble Studios and re\-imagined in high definition by Hidden Path Entertainment, Skybox Labs, and Forgotten Empires, Microsoft Studios is proud to bring Age of Empires II: HD Edition to Steam\!

## Game information

- Type: game

- Developer: Skybox Labs, Hidden Path Entertainment, Ensemble Studios, Forgotten Empires

- Publisher: Xbox Game Studios

- Release date: Apr 9, 2013

- Coming soon: false

- Free to play: false

- Parent Steam app: Not collected

- Genres: Strategy

- Categories: Single\-player, Multi\-player, Steam Achievements, Steam Trading Cards, Captions available, Steam Workshop, Steam Cloud, Stats, Steam Leaderboards, Includes level editor, Family Sharing

- Platforms: windows

- Website: Not collected

- Screenshots: https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/221380/ss\_f196e3b1c70038e09140f12aebcfdf0ef57915b0\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1705596928, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/221380/ss\_78cc1f90aaa7f368a05ceb5f2ea29109696736c4\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1705596928, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/221380/ss\_9ccf9acb373b3e26f9e42a053147845561b2c224\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1705596928, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/221380/ss\_5723ddcec6da4d9697f73882fab90e6cec99a8ad\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1705596928, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/221380/ss\_bfb7d671a8fe0bd20d34bd8f3455bac98e49639e\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1705596928, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/221380/ss\_ea28d966c363726dcee8848b20a634a75d62ee97\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1705596928

- Price: 1999 minor units USD; discount 0%

- Price country: US

## Observed metrics

- Current players: 2725

- Steam review count: 102869

- Steam positive reviews: 98579

- Steam negative reviews: 4290

- Steam positive percentage: 95.82964741564514%

- Summer DB rating: No native votes

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## Player history

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Chart values are hourly observed maxima. The sampled 24-hour peak and missing intervals carry explicit coverage; history before collection is unknown.

## Sources and freshness

- Catalog membership: store\_catalog

- Catalog observed: 2026\-09\-28T16:58:32\.455488\+00:00

- Details observed: 2026\-09\-21T20:43:35\.35055\+00:00

- Player count observed: 2026\-09\-21T20:43:36\.989241\+00:00

- Reviews observed: 2026\-09\-21T20:43:36\.351961\+00:00

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Steam reviews are not Summer DB votes. Missing data is not zero. Player counts are observations, not historical peaks. A supplemental record does not establish that a game was delisted.

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