
Steam reviews
Very Positive
85% of 53,311 reviews
Critic scores
75
Metacritic
Generally favorable
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AGE OF EMPIRES III: DEFINITIVE EDITION
Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition has 2,368 concurrent players on Steam right now. Its 24 hour peak is 4,259 and its all-time peak is 6,008. Data refreshes every 5 minutes from the official Steam Web API.
DEV · World's Edge, Tantalus Media, Forgotten EmpiresPUB · Xbox Game Studios2020
Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition offers players a trial of this historical single & multiplayer RTS experience. *Note: To unlock all features of the game please see the “Base Game” product.
- Solid daily community. Plenty of people to play with right now.
- Currently at 39% of the all-time peak of 6,008 players.
- Last updated 3 months ago: Spring Sale Is Happening Now!.
Playing now
2,368
24h peak
4,259
24h change
▲ 0.1%
Quick verdict
Is Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition still alive in 2026?
PREVIOUS 24 HOURS
GALLERY & TRAILERS
1 / 15
ACROSS PLATFORMS
STEAMLIVE
Current
2.37K
24h peak
4.26K
All-time
6.01K
TWITCHLIVE · VIEWERS
Watching now
6
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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