Age of Empires 4 is off to a flyer on Steam.
At the time of this article’s publication, Microsoft’s real-time strategy game had 64,550 concurrent players on Steam – with the number growing slowly but steadily throughout the day. That’s more concurrent players than Destiny 2, Warframe and Civilization 6.
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That figure is also way ahead of the series’ best ever current players figure of 38,725, set by Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition nine months ago (thanks, SteamDB).
For extra context, Age of Empires 3: Definitive Edition managed an all-time peak current players number of 20,146 13 months ago.
The impressive Steam numbers for Age of Empires 4 don’t tell the whole story, either. As an Xbox Game Studios title, Age of Empires 4 came out day-and-date on Game Pass for PC. I imagine it has loads of players there – last night I spent a quid to play Age of Empires 4 for a month via Xbox Game Pass Ultimate’s introductory offer. It really does seem too good to be true, doesn’t it?