These numbers don’t even account for players via Xbox Game Pass for PC. Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition previously reached a peak of 38,725 earlier this year.
That’s the 17th biggest peak on Steam today – right between Rocket League and Rainbow Six Siege – and the biggest in series history. Well, Age of Empires IV is here, and it’s already burning up the Steam charts – the player count is bigger than any of the previous remasters and re-releases, and the game is sitting comfortably among Steam’s top 20.Īge of Empires IV reached a peak concurrent player count of 54,851 shortly after launch, as SteamDB shows. If the years of Age of Empires fans begging for a sequel didn’t give it away, people have spent a long time hungry for a new entry in the classic series of strategy games.
