Age of Empires

Age of Empires

Ensemble Studios · 1997

How you play it

2-4 players online

Online co-op · up to 4

What it does best

  • strategy

  • historical

  • warfare

The setup

What you are walking into

Age of Empires (AoE) is a history-based real-time strategy video game developed by Ensemble Studios and published by Microsoft. The game uses the Genie, a 2D sprite-based game engine. The game allows the user to act as the leader of an ancient civilization by advancing it through four ages (the Stone, Tool, Bronze, and Iron Ages), gaining access to new and improved units with each advance.

Where it lives

PC (Microsoft Windows)Mac

Genre

Strategy

Vibe

HistoricalWarfare
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