Age of Empires II (Retired)
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Strategy-focused Age of Empires II (Retired) launched in 2013 and is tied to developer SkyBox Labs with Xbox Game Studios as publisher. The Steam listing shows 84,585 reviews at 96% positive, with an initial price of $19.99.
Overview
Age of Empires II (Retired) is a 2013 Strategy game developed by SkyBox Labs and published by Xbox Game Studios. On Steam it has gathered 84,586 player reviews, 96% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Strategy category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer SkyBox Labs with publisher Xbox Game Studios is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Strategy projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 4.6 million to 10.7 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Age of Empires II (Retired) can be compared against similar Strategy titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
84,586
Positive
96%
Steam appid
221380
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.04.6M to 10.7M
units (median: 7.6M)
≈ $52.2M to $121.7M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2013 | +30 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_96% | +10 |
| final NB | 90 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Age of Empires II (Retired) at roughly 4.6 million to 10.7 million copies, with a median around 7.6 million, derived from its 84,586 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $86.9M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $14.10Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $14.10 to $19.99, averaging $18.98 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $14.10 on 2026-04-08.
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Platforms
windows
Genres
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Age of Empires II (Retired) sold?
- indielist estimates Age of Empires II (Retired) has sold between 4,567,644 and 10,657,836 units (median 7,612,740), derived from its 84,586 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Age of Empires II (Retired)?
- Age of Empires II (Retired) was developed by SkyBox Labs and published by Xbox Game Studios.
- When was Age of Empires II (Retired) released?
- Age of Empires II (Retired) was released in 2013.
- How many reviews does Age of Empires II (Retired) have on Steam?
- Age of Empires II (Retired) has 84,586 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Age of Empires II (Retired) within the Strategy segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, SkyBox Labs's other releases and Xbox Game Studios's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Age of Empires II (Retired) sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Age of Empires II (Retired) page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Strategy game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.