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Rise of Nations: Extended Edition

SkyBox Labs · Xbox Game Studios · 2014-06-12

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SimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Jun 12, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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Rise of Nations: Extended Edition is a Simulation, Strategy game released in 2014, priced at $19.99, with an owner estimate of 1,000,000 .. 2,000,000 and a review sentiment of Very Positive (95% of 15901 reviews).

465
playing now
95%
positive of 16k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
1,000,000–2,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
0
twitch viewers (latest)
80/100
IGDB user rating (18 ratings)
5
Nexus mods (4.7k downloads)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
$19.99
steam price (US)

465 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 11:00 UTC (census sample)

Rise of Nations is a real-time strategy video game developed by Big Huge Games and published by Microsoft Game Studios in May 2003. Designed as a fusion of concepts from turn-based strategy games with the real-time strategy genre, the game's development was led by Brian Reynolds, who founded Big Huge Games following his involvement in the development of the turn-based strategy games Civilization II and Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. In contrast to previous historical real-time strategy games, Rise of Nations is based on the entirety of history, taking place from the ancient era to the modern age, and features eighteen civilizations, playable across eight ages of world history. The game features several innovations on the real-time strategy genre, introducing novel features such as territory and attrition influenced by the turn-based strategy and 4X genres.

Health check

Healthy
  • · 465 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 583 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~73/week).
  • · Review velocity up 2% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 2% of 16,638 Simulation games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 399k–957k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 15,945 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$6.59-67%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $3.99 at Steam (2016-06-23)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 17 of 35 observed days · $2.60 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
28428420182026Week of 2018-01-01: 62 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 129 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 161 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 207 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 212 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 236 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 184 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 139 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 210 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 284 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 168 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 116 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 198 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 109 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 120 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 99 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 206 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 172 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 153 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 108 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 124 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 138 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 105 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 94 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 125 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 95 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 84 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 83 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 92 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 114 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 122 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 86 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 101 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 129 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 73 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 91 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 140 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 123 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 69 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 83 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 108 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 84 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 112 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 76 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 91 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 88 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 77 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 77 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 91 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 74 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 81 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 77 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 105 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 91 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 81 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 89 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 82 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 89 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 71 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 99 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 91 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 77 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 66 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 70 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 72 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 96 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 94 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 71 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 73 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 70 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 70 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 86 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 85 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 70 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 57 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 59 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 76 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 92 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 75 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 71 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 66 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 56 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 64 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 6 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

8863932026-09-15 12:00 — 510 players2026-09-16 20:00 — 646 players2026-09-18 04:00 — 447 players2026-09-19 11:00 — 612 players2026-09-20 19:00 — 810 players2026-09-22 02:00 — 533 players2026-09-23 10:00 — 416 players2026-09-24 17:00 — 673 players2026-09-26 01:00 — 600 players2026-09-27 08:00 — 563 players2026-09-28 16:00 — 659 players2026-09-29 23:00 — 525 players2026-10-01 07:00 — 397 players2026-10-02 14:00 — 703 players2026-10-03 22:00 — 770 players2026-10-05 06:00 — 424 players2026-10-06 14:00 — 609 players2026-10-07 21:00 — 654 players2026-10-09 05:00 — 407 players2026-10-10 12:00 — 703 players2026-10-11 20:00 — 839 players2026-10-13 03:00 — 497 players2026-10-14 11:00 — 465 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
1.2k245Jun 2014Aug 2026Jun 2014 — avg 553 · peak 2,324Oct 2014 — avg 245 · peak 498Feb 2015 — avg 360 · peak 713Jun 2015 — avg 418 · peak 1,078Oct 2015 — avg 288 · peak 538Feb 2016 — avg 571 · peak 1,182Jun 2016 — avg 520 · peak 1,508Oct 2016 — avg 402 · peak 716Feb 2017 — avg 492 · peak 853Jun 2017 — avg 517 · peak 1,053Oct 2017 — avg 538 · peak 1,056Feb 2018 — avg 568 · peak 1,084Jun 2018 — avg 516 · peak 1,023Oct 2018 — avg 464 · peak 787Feb 2019 — avg 581 · peak 1,117Jun 2019 — avg 529 · peak 1,049Oct 2019 — avg 498 · peak 827Feb 2020 — avg 597 · peak 975Jun 2020 — avg 676 · peak 1,185Oct 2020 — avg 612 · peak 994Feb 2021 — avg 721 · peak 1,289Jun 2021 — avg 621 · peak 1,033Oct 2021 — avg 585 · peak 934Feb 2022 — avg 693 · peak 1,179Jun 2022 — avg 663 · peak 1,081Oct 2022 — avg 672 · peak 1,036Feb 2023 — avg 686 · peak 1,153Jun 2023 — avg 641 · peak 1,013Oct 2023 — avg 644 · peak 1,027Feb 2024 — avg 692 · peak 1,162Jun 2024 — avg 677 · peak 1,103Oct 2024 — avg 627 · peak 1,031Feb 2025 — avg 687 · peak 1,143Jun 2025 — avg 640 · peak 1,022Oct 2025 — avg 588 · peak 1,000Feb 2026 — avg 650 · peak 1,142Jun 2026 — avg 608 · peak 980Aug 2026 — avg 579 · peak 898
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Chart history

PositiveNegative
772026-09-212026-10-142026-09-21: 7 new positive2026-09-23: 1 new negative2026-09-25: 1 new positive2026-09-26: 1 new positive2026-09-27: 1 new positive2026-09-27: 1 new negative2026-09-28: 1 new positive2026-09-29: 1 new positive2026-09-30: 1 new positive2026-10-02: 1 new positive2026-10-03: 3 new positive2026-10-04: 2 new positive2026-10-05: 2 new positive2026-10-06: 1 new positive2026-10-07: 5 new positive2026-10-08: 3 new positive2026-10-09: 1 new positive2026-10-10: 3 new positive2026-10-11: 2 new positive2026-10-11: 1 new negative2026-10-12: 2 new positive2026-10-13: 3 new positive
New Steam reviews per day (census review snapshots). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$19.99$3.992015-01-012026-10-112015-01-01 — best price $9.992015-12-22 — best price $4.992016-11-23 — best price $4.992017-11-22 — best price $4.992018-07-17 — best price $15.992018-12-21 — best price $4.992019-07-09 — best price $19.992020-04-02 — best price $4.992020-07-23 — best price $4.992020-12-17 — best price $4.992021-04-01 — best price $4.992021-07-22 — best price $4.992022-01-04 — best price $19.992022-06-07 — best price $19.992022-07-27 — best price $4.992022-11-22 — best price $9.992023-02-28 — best price $4.992023-05-09 — best price $4.992023-08-01 — best price $19.992023-12-01 — best price $4.992024-03-12 — best price $19.992024-05-07 — best price $6.592024-07-17 — best price $4.992024-12-03 — best price $19.992025-03-13 — best price $4.992025-06-07 — best price $4.992025-09-29 — best price $6.592025-12-17 — best price $4.992026-03-19 — best price $6.592026-06-11 — best price $19.992026-09-06 — best price $19.992026-10-11 — best price $6.59
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

203912026-06-01 — 142 pageviews2026-06-05 — 157 pageviews2026-06-09 — 140 pageviews2026-06-13 — 139 pageviews2026-06-17 — 165 pageviews2026-06-21 — 203 pageviews2026-06-25 — 108 pageviews2026-06-29 — 153 pageviews2026-07-03 — 132 pageviews2026-07-07 — 158 pageviews2026-07-11 — 146 pageviews2026-07-15 — 112 pageviews2026-07-19 — 127 pageviews2026-07-23 — 133 pageviews2026-07-27 — 128 pageviews2026-07-31 — 91 pageviews2026-08-04 — 119 pageviews2026-08-08 — 142 pageviews2026-08-12 — 124 pageviews2026-08-16 — 135 pageviews2026-08-20 — 131 pageviews2026-08-24 — 130 pageviews2026-08-28 — 146 pageviews2026-09-01 — 113 pageviews2026-09-05 — 128 pageviews2026-09-09 — 122 pageviews2026-09-13 — 157 pageviews2026-09-17 — 106 pageviews2026-09-21 — 145 pageviews2026-09-25 — 136 pageviews2026-09-29 — 119 pageviews2026-10-03 — 143 pageviews2026-10-07 — 137 pageviews2026-10-11 — 170 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

1102026-09-30 21:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-01 06:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-01 15:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-02 00:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-02 09:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-02 18:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-03 03:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-03 12:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-03 21:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-04 06:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-04 15:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-05 00:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-05 09:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-05 18:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-06 03:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-06 12:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-06 21:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-07 06:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-07 15:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-08 00:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-08 09:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-08 18:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-09 03:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-09 12:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-09 21:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-10 06:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-10 15:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-11 00:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-11 09:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-11 18:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-12 03:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-12 12:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-12 21:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-13 06:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-13 15:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-14 00:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-14 09:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-14 18:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-14 20:34 — 0 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

38
achievements tracked
79%
earned "Conqueror"
4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudStatsSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing

4 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)18,8572%38
Windows (Xbox)2,3772%38

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

RTSWarEpicCo-opClassicStrategyNostalgiaReal-TimeHistoricalSimulation

Census log

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

Players also track

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Similarity via IGDB.

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