
Steam reviews
Very Positive
95% of 177,670 reviews
Critic scores
84
Metacritic
Generally favorable
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Strategy LiveVery active
AGE OF EMPIRES II: DEFINITIVE EDITION
Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition has 10,661 concurrent players on Steam right now. Its 24 hour peak is 20,571 and its all-time peak is 28,356. Data refreshes every 5 minutes from the official Steam Web API.
DEV · World's Edge, Forgotten Empires, CaptureAge, Tantalus Media, Wicked Witch, Feral InteractivePUB · Xbox Game Studios2019
42 Civilizations, 229 Campaign Missions, Singleplayer, Co-Op, Multiplayer, In-Game Editor, Mods, Cross-play...It is good to be the king.
- Strong daily player base. Matchmaking and servers will be lively.
- Currently at 38% of the all-time peak of 28,356 players.
- Last updated 2 months ago: Wololo! Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition Converts to macOS on May 28th!.
Playing now
10,661
24h peak
20,571
24h change
▼ 2.1%
Quick verdict
Is Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition still alive in 2026?
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ACROSS PLATFORMS
STEAMLIVE
Current
10.7K
24h peak
20.6K
All-time
28.4K
TWITCHLIVE · VIEWERS
Watching now
560
Xbox · PlayStation · Nintendo
No public concurrent-player API exists for these platforms. Other sites guess by scraping achievement timestamps or leaderboards. We won’t make up numbers. If the platforms ever ship a real API, real numbers will show up here.
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