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Battle Engine Aquila cover art

Battle Engine Aquila

Lost Toys Ltd · Ziggurat · 2020-09-04

SteamGOGPlayStation Store

Action

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Split screen · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Jan 20, 2003 (PlayStation 2), Nov 02, 2003 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jan 20, 2003 (Xbox)

The forces of the Forseti and the evil Muspell are in a fight to the death. You are Hawk Winter, plucked from obscurity to pilot Battle Engine Aquila. Airborne or on land, your tactics and Aquila's firepower must combine to blaze a trail to lift the Forseti from oblivion.

Battle Engine Aquila is an Action game released in 2020, priced at $9.99, with an estimated 50,000 .. 100,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (93% of 148 reviews).

1
playing now
93%
positive of 148 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
85/100
IGDB user rating (5 ratings)
3.95★
PlayStation Store rating (214 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$9.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 19:00 UTC (census sample)

Battle Engine Aquila is a 2003 video game for PlayStation 2 and Xbox developed by Lost Toys and published by Infogrames Europe. In the game the player pilots the Battle Engine for the Forseti military in their wars against the Muspell to decide who will rule what's left of the world. Battle Engine Aquila received little attention from the public despite overall good reviews from critics. It was listed as #86 in the Top 100 Games for PlayStation 2 by IGN. A later Microsoft Windows port was published by Encore Software.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 17 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 6% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 33% of 27,908 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 3.0k–6.7k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 148 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Steam$2.99-70%
GOG$2.99-70%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.44 at Fanatical (2026-09-14)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 71 of 117 observed days · $0.55 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
131320202026Week of 2020-09-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 4 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

302026-09-15 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 19:00 — 1 players2026-09-21 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 15:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 22:00 — 2 players2026-10-04 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 14:00 — 1 players2026-10-06 22:00 — 1 players2026-10-08 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 13:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 04:00 — 1 players2026-10-13 11:00 — 2 players2026-10-14 19:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$2.992020-09-042026-10-152020-09-04 — best price $6.692021-02-11 — best price $6.692021-05-29 — best price $9.992021-07-09 — best price $8.992021-10-02 — best price $9.992021-11-29 — best price $9.992022-01-27 — best price $6.492022-03-23 — best price $7.342022-06-10 — best price $6.492022-08-01 — best price $9.992022-11-22 — best price $6.492023-02-04 — best price $9.992023-04-18 — best price $8.992023-07-13 — best price $9.992023-09-20 — best price $7.342023-12-13 — best price $6.492024-02-26 — best price $6.492024-05-09 — best price $9.992024-08-03 — best price $7.342024-10-25 — best price $9.992024-12-14 — best price $7.342025-02-23 — best price $8.992025-06-09 — best price $9.992025-08-18 — best price $4.992025-10-28 — best price $4.992026-01-05 — best price $9.992026-03-17 — best price $3.682026-05-09 — best price $9.992026-07-15 — best price $3.492026-09-04 — best price $2.992026-09-19 — best price $2.992026-10-04 — best price $2.992026-10-15 — best price $2.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

47132026-06-01 — 18 pageviews2026-06-05 — 28 pageviews2026-06-09 — 18 pageviews2026-06-13 — 21 pageviews2026-06-17 — 27 pageviews2026-06-21 — 30 pageviews2026-06-25 — 19 pageviews2026-06-29 — 21 pageviews2026-07-03 — 34 pageviews2026-07-07 — 23 pageviews2026-07-11 — 27 pageviews2026-07-15 — 25 pageviews2026-07-19 — 30 pageviews2026-07-23 — 29 pageviews2026-07-27 — 26 pageviews2026-07-31 — 26 pageviews2026-08-04 — 22 pageviews2026-08-08 — 25 pageviews2026-08-12 — 31 pageviews2026-08-16 — 47 pageviews2026-08-20 — 36 pageviews2026-08-24 — 31 pageviews2026-08-28 — 28 pageviews2026-09-01 — 34 pageviews2026-09-05 — 22 pageviews2026-09-09 — 26 pageviews2026-09-13 — 31 pageviews2026-09-17 — 32 pageviews2026-09-21 — 20 pageviews2026-09-25 — 13 pageviews2026-09-29 — 29 pageviews2026-10-03 — 15 pageviews2026-10-07 — 30 pageviews2026-10-10 — 18 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPShared/Split Screen PvPCo-opShared/Split Screen Co-opShared/Split ScreenPartial Controller SupportRemote Play TogetherFamily Sharing

4 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German

Player tags

FPSWarCo-opMechsTanksCombatSci-fiShooterMilitaryDystopian

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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