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Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition
Players on Steam at last update
18,533
Source: Steam Web API, as of 05:21 UTC on November 8, 2026.
Compared with the highest reading100%
05:00 UTC reading on November 8, 2026: 18,533, 100% of the highest recorded by Statcade (18,533 on November 8, 2026, 17 readings since October 17, 2026).
- Rank by players
- #69of 309 Steam games with a player count
- Highest reading
- 18,533on November 8, 2026, 17 readings
- Metacritic
- 84out of 100
- Release
- Nov 14, 2019
Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition on Statcade: players online on Steam, copies sold, facts and charts.
At a glance
| Developer | World's Edge, Forgotten Empires, CaptureAge, Tantalus Media, Wicked Witch, Feral Interactive |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Xbox Game Studios |
| Release | Nov 14, 2019 |
| Platform | PC (Steam) |
| Genre | Strategy |
| Players online on Steam | 18,533 (as of 05:21 UTC on November 8, 2026) |
| Players at the 05:00 UTC reading | 18,533 (November 8, 2026, taken at 05:21 UTC) |
| Metacritic | 84 |
About the game
The description from Steam and the story of the game are available in Italian on the Italian page.
Steam price
Price check of November 8, 2026 on Steam Italy (euros). The lowest price is the lowest one Statcade has seen since it started tracking the game (October 17, 2026), not Steam's full price history; free-to-keep periods do not count.
Game signature
Peak at 22:00 · low at 08:00 · the peak is 2.1 times the low
The 24-hour curve as a circle: midnight at the top, the radius is the number of players in each hour (Italian time), the gold dot is the peak hour.
Speedruns
World records and best times in the main categories of Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition on speedrun.com.
Individual Campaigns (William Wallace PC) (new tab)
| Pos. | Player | Time | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Record | Tei | 13:14 (new tab) | |
| 2nd | Impérial | 16:31 (new tab) | |
| 3rd | BellumZeldaDS | 17:39 (new tab) |
Wonder Race (RM) (No AI) (new tab)
| Pos. | Player | Time | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Record | SiFly | 18:18 (new tab) | |
| 2nd | JulioMartinelli | 18:26 (new tab) | |
| 3rd | JadeArrowGamer | 18:34 (new tab) |
Wonder Race (RM) RoR (No AI) (new tab)
| Pos. | Player | Time | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Record | JulioMartinelli | 18:25 (new tab) | |
| 2nd | BellumZeldaDS | 18:38 (new tab) |
Source: speedrun.com (new tab), license CC BY-NC 4.0 (new tab); data selected and reformatted by Statcade (default category and subcategories, updated on a rotating basis). All records: Speedruns.
Italian sentiment
Share of positive Steam reviews written in Italian, compared with the share across all languages.
- In Italian96.2% positive reviews1,706 positive out of 1,774 reviews
- All languages94.9% positive reviews174,116 positive out of 183,456 reviews
In line with the rest of the world: the difference (+1.3 points) stays below the 10-point threshold.
Source: Steam, user reviews (all purchases), checked on October 18, 2026. What counts is the language the review is written in, not the reviewer's country; “all languages” includes Italian too. All games: Italian sentiment.
When to play to find the most players
Busiest: 21:00–24:00 (on average 22,383 players) Quietest: 06:00–09:00 (12,817 on average)
| Time slot | Average players | Compared with the daily average |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00–03:00 | 17,781 | 99% |
| 03:00–06:00 | 16,771 | 93% |
| 06:00–09:00 quietest | 12,817 | 71% |
| 09:00–12:00 | 13,254 | 74% |
| 12:00–15:00 | 17,220 | 96% |
| 15:00–18:00 | 21,542 | 120% |
| 18:00–21:00 | 22,200 | 123% |
| 21:00–24:00 busiest | 22,383 | 124% |
Source: Statcade hourly readings from the Steam Web API GetNumberOfCurrentPlayers, since October 18; times in Italian time (CET/CEST).
How we calculate it
Every hour we record the players online on Steam. We convert each reading to Italian time (daylight saving time included), average each hour over all days and then average each 3-hour slot (00–03, 03–06, … 21–24). Hours in which the reading is anomalous for the whole catalogue are excluded. Players come from all over the world, not just Italy: the slot shows how many people are online on Steam at that Italian time.
Data: Wikipedia (en), “Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition”, Steam.
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