Age of Empires II (Retired)

Age of Empires II has been re-imagined in high definition. With the release of Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition, this product will not be updated further.

Age of Empires II (Retired) is a strategy, rts and medieval game developed by SkyBox Labs, Hidden Path Entertainment, Ensemble Studios and Forgotten Empires and published by Xbox Game Studios.
Released on April 09th 2013 is available only on Windows in 11 languages: English, German, French, Italian, Korean, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Russian, Japanese, Dutch and Portuguese - Brazil.

It has received 100,748 reviews of which 96,489 were positive and 4,259 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.4 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Age of Empires II (Retired) into these genres:

Strategy RTS Medieval Multiplayer Classic Historical Base-Building City Builder Resource Management Singleplayer Tactical Real-Time Co-op Competitive Replay Value Remake 2D Isometric Action Adventure

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Requirements

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Windows

OS *:Windows Vista, 7, 8 Pro+
Processor:1.2GHZ CPU
Memory:1 GB RAM
Graphics:Direct X 9.0c Capable GPU
DirectX®:9.0c
Hard Drive:2 GB HD space

Reviews

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Nov. 2024

first computer game i played in my life prob around yr 1998. games just as good now as i remember it being then, kinds slow paced compared to modern games but altogether still worth the money and def worth playing.

March 2024

Amazing game, trash devs. First they release Definitive Edition and stop updating this one (which is fair), but then they tried goading the playerbase to their new game while literally acting as if this game never existed. People who played AoE in their childhood are here for this game specifically, not DE!! If you want to get this on sale, forget it. Devs are now making sales for their "new" definitive games exclusively. In other words, this gem here will never go on sale again. Oh...did I also mention they drained the logo of all colour and added retired to the title...like who does that??

Feb. 2024

Wait what? I was going through games I played and found the game cover became black and white and clicked on it to find it "retired"? Last time I played was December 2023 and I did NOT see this coming back then. What does retired even mean? I bought this game and imo it's a game that's so classic that ppl will go back to countless times. I just don't get the need to "retire" this one just because there's a new remaster. Oh well, I guess you see new things from time to time.

Feb. 2024

The best version of Age of Empires 2. It does not suffer from the trapping of live service gaming like the Definitive Edition. Please Microsoft, keep it alive

Jan. 2024

The game is good, but what does retired mean? How does one own a retired game? Ok, I'm already convinced it's Xbox Game Studios being greedy. I've paid ~40$ for my AOE2 HD edition in 2013 and onward. Then they publish a new game which is the same, the difference is that the old version is decorated as obsolete and they obviously want me to pay again to have the latest stuff with the pretty new graphics. I don't think there's been one offer for those of us who own it, to save a little when purchasing the newer variant. Greedy and bad, guys...

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19.99€

9.4

96,489

4,259

Online players

2,908

Developer

SkyBox Labs, Hidden Path Entertainment, Ensemble Studios, Forgotten Empires

Publisher

Xbox Game Studios

Release 09 Apr 2013

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