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StrategyRTSBase BuildingMultiplayerWarMedieval

Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition

Celebrating its first year of delighting millions of global players, the award-winning and best-selling strategy franchise continues with Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition, putting you at the center of even more epic historical battles that shaped the world.

Developer
World's Edge, Relic Entertainment, Forgotten Empires, Climax Studios
Publisher
Xbox Game Studios
Franchise
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Release date
Oct 28, 2021
Store page updated
Jun 7, 2026
Price
$39.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

70.7/ 100

Based on 387 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 😄 Very Positive 80% of 370
All time 😄 Very Positive 86% of 95,699
“still plays in memory of father, emotional connection to game”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
+1.15
Strategy +3.25 · Depth of builds, tactics, and meaningful choices
“each civ has unique mechanics and playstyle, strategic depth with economic and tactical choices” (35)

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Story & World
+2.42
Story +2.44 · Plot, quests, writing, and the ending
“great storytelling with engaging missions and documentary videos” (15)

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Content Volume
+1.47
Volume +1.76 · How much there is to play, including endgame, for the price

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Visuals & Sound
+2.80
Visuals +2.94 · Graphics, art style, and animation
“gorgeous overall look, maps and biomes pleasant to look at” (44)

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Multiplayer
+0.33
Playing together +1.80 · Fun of playing with friends, teammates, or rivals
“interested in PvE co-op mode like StarCraft 2 for RTS atmosphere” (18)
好玩，但我更感兴趣的是类似星际2合作的PVE模式，这真的对我们这些不敢打天梯又很喜欢RTS氛围的玩家很重要

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Pricing & Fairness
-2.08
Pricing -2.75 · Whether the price, DLC and microtransactions are reasonable, and how much paying gives you an edge
“DLC garbage and waste of money, poorly made and boring” (18)

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Tech & Support
-1.95
Stability -3.87 · Crashes, freezes, save loss, and game-breaking bugs
“random crashes happen far too often, mid-game and during intense matches” (39)

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Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time
since launch, by month · major update DLC
50%60%70%80%90%100%
Oct 2021Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 361 reviews, peak 19/day
01020
Aug 21Sep 18

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by month. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive. "Show updates" marks major updates and DLC the developer posted on Steam (since about 2020) — hover a column to see % positive the month before and after.

Review languages

Languages of the 387 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English35%
  • Chinese18%
  • Spanish10%
  • Portuguese9%
  • Turkish8%
  • French6%
  • Other15%

🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.

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