Age of Empires: Definitive Edition
Give it 3 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours almost 1 in 2 reviews are negative (40%); after 15h it's 1 in 9 (11%).
- Fully opens up by hour 15.
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- Only 38% of owners have even the first achievement — the rest barely played.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 15,864 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 297 reviews: 19.7h for positive, 12.2h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.
Where players quit
Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (38% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
This game has no story achievements, so we can't tell where players quit.
All achievements (44)
story milestone ending side
- Pepperoni Pizza Collected 50,000 food 100%
- Not that I'm keeping count… Defeat 1000 enemy units 95%
- WoodStock Collected 50,000 wood 95%
- Heracles Defeat a Lion (Alpha) 64%
- 21st Century Train 21 Centurions 60%
- Coinage Collected 50,000 gold 58%
- Eye in the sky Win a random map without training any archery units 51%
- Pharaoh Complete the Ascent of Egypt learning campaign 47%
- Pegasus Advanced first to every age 45%
- Feet on the ground Win a random map game without training any cavalry 41%
- Archimedes Researched every technology available in a single game 40%
- Epic Complete the Glory of Greece campaign 36%
- Quarry Collected 50,000 stone 33%
- Marvelous Won a game by building and holding a wonder 32%
- Homes? Build 500 houses 26%
- Smoking Ziggurats Complete the Voices of Babylon campaign 23%
- Big In Japan Complete the Yamato Empire of the Rising Sun campaign 22%
- Towers of Babel Build 50 Babylonian Towers 22%
- Hittite Baby One More Time Complete the Reign of the Hittites campaign 22%
- Atlas Explore all areas of a single map 21%
- Losing Your Religion Convert an enemy Priest 20%
- Artemis Hunt 250 animals 19%
- Roma Victrix Complete the Rise of Rome campaign 18%
- Veni, Vidi, Vici Complete the Ave Caesar campaign 18%
- Punic Attack Complete the First Punic War campaign 17%
- Imperial Peace Complete the Imperium Romana campaign 16%
- State Of The Artifact Won a game by holding all the artifacts 15%
- The Elephant In The Rome Complete the Enemies of Rome campaign 15%
- Eye of Horus Convert 20 units with Egyptian Priests 14%
- Ruin Them All Won a game by holding ruins 13%
- Axe To Grind Train 400 Axemen 12%
- Parthian Shot Train 500 Horse Archers 11%
- Minoan Compies Train 100 Minoan Composite Bowman 9.5%
- Scytheseeing Train 100 Egyptian Scythe Chariots 7.6%
- Res Publica Won a ranked Elo game. 7.1%
- Dancing Chariots Train 400 Assyrian Chariot Archers 5.8%
- Rise And Wall Build 789 Shang wall segments 5.8%
- Wololo Convert 1000 units 5.8%
- Cute Cats Build 500 heavy catapults 5.5%
- Hun, is that you? Destroy 200 temples 5.5%
- The Choson Ones Create 1000 Choson Legions 5.3%
- Assassin Defeated 20 heroes 5.0%
- Syntagma Train 256 Macedonian Hoplites 5.0%
- Perseus Killed a Medusa 4.5%