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Raiders of the North is €19.99 on Steam, €15.59 (no fees) as a Steam Key. Which base-game format works with the DLC, and what the full set costs today.
Key facts
- Cheapest right now
- € Standard · Steam Account · Global · Difmark
- Live offers
- 77 offers · 18 stores
- Our pick
- Standard · Windows Key · Europe · Kinguin — €
Raiders of the North, the newest expansion for Age of Empires IV, came out on 29 October at €19.99 on Steam. Steam now sells the game itself as the Anniversary Edition for €39.99, with no discount, and there are five paid DLC to add on top. Before you look for the lowest number, check which store each key belongs to.
Vikings, Scots and co-op Crucible
Two civilizations come with it. Viking villagers are produced for free and their Sagas turn great deeds into bonuses; the Scots feed themselves on Highland Cattle and ambush from stealth forests. Crucible gets four new missions and can now be played solo or in two-player co-op, with a progression system built on Boons and a talent track for each civilization. Conqueror mode adds 25 new weekly mutators, and there are two new biomes, Scottish heathland and summer tundra.
Which store your copy ends up in
The cheapest base-game keys this morning are Windows Store Keys: €7.67 (€8.63 with fees) at Kinguin with the coupon NOVGOC10, €7.82 (€8.88 with fees) at K4G with GCDK14DEAL, sold as a Microsoft Anniversary Edition for Europe, and €9.49 (no fees) at Instant Gaming. Those activate on the Microsoft Store and you play through the Xbox app on PC. Steam won't take them.
The cheapest Steam Key is at Driffle, €20.64 (€21.79 with fees) with GOCDKEYS10. It's the Anniversary Edition, the same thing Steam charges €39.99 for. That's the one to get if you want DLC, because a Steam DLC key only activates on a Steam account that owns the base game, and every Raiders of the North offer we track is a Steam Key.
Steam Accounts start at €4.61 (€4.82 with fees) at Difmark with the coupon Gocdkeys. You'd be logging into someone else's account, so the game never belongs to you. We'd leave them alone.
Every DLC, priced and rated
Steam Key prices from this morning; ratings are Steam user reviews.
| DLC | Steam | Best Steam Key | Steam reviews |
|---|---|---|---|
| Raiders of the North | €19.99 | €15.59 (no fees), CDKeys | Mixed, 63% of 371 |
| Dynasties of the East | €19.99 | €14.39 (no fees), Instant Gaming | Mixed, 62% of 1,015 |
| The Sultans Ascend | €14.99 | €11.89 (no fees), Instant Gaming | Mostly Positive, 72% of 1,757 |
| Knights of Cross and Rose | €14.99 | €11.89 (no fees), Instant Gaming | Mixed, 57% of 1,388 |
| Yue Fei's Legacy | €14.99 | €12.26 (no fees), GamesPlanet | Mixed, 44% of 559 |
The base game sits at Very Positive, 85% of 73,154 reviews, and no expansion gets close. Sultans Ascend is the best received, Yue Fei's Legacy the worst. Raiders only has 371 reviews so far.
Ultimate Bundle or loose DLC?
On Steam, the Ultimate Bundle (€99.94) appears as a purchase option for Sultans Ascend, Knights of Cross and Rose, Yue Fei's Legacy and Dynasties of the East, but not on the Raiders of the North page, so the new expansion does not seem to be included. Check the bundle page before you pay. Steam also sells a Digital Deluxe Edition at €59.99 and the Age of Empires 25th Anniversary Collection at €148.43. We can't confirm what the Deluxe adds; as a Steam Key it's €20.88 (€22.60 with fees) at Gamivo with GCDKGamivo.
Base game plus Raiders as Steam Keys comes to €37.38 (Driffle with fees, plus CDKeys), against €59.98 on Steam. Add the other four DLC and it's €87.81. Steam's cheapest route to the same set, the Ultimate Bundle plus Raiders, is €119.93, so you save €32.12. Base game, Raiders and Sultans Ascend only: €49.27.
What we'd buy for Steam
If you play on Steam, take the Driffle key and add the expansions you actually want, starting with Raiders and Sultans Ascend. The Windows Store Key only makes sense if you already use the Xbox app and don't care about DLC. All stores are on the Age of Empires IV key page, and a price alert will email you when it drops. For longer campaigns on a world map, see our best grand strategy games on PC.
Prices checked on the morning of 14 November.
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