Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition

42 Civilizations, 229 Campaign Missions, Singleplayer, Co-Op, Multiplayer, In-Game Editor, Mods, Cross-play...It is good to be the king.

Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition is a strategy, rts and city builder game developed by Forgotten Empires, Tantalus Media, Wicked Witch, World's Edge and CaptureAge and published by Xbox Game Studios.
Released on November 14th 2019 is available only on Windows in 17 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Vietnamese, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Hindi and Malay.

It has received 154,322 reviews of which 146,407 were positive and 7,915 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.4 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 11.54€ on Steam and has a 65% discount.

The Steam community has classified Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition into these genres:

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

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

OS: Windows 10 64bit
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Athlon 64x2 5600+
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 420 or ATI™ Radeon™ HD 6850 or Intel® HD Graphics 4000 or better with 2 GB VRAM
DirectX: Version 11
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 15 GB available space
Additional Notes: 2GB of video memory + 4GB of system memory required

Reviews

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Nov. 2024

+ Largest playerbase in RTS - as a result matchmaking works better. + Armies are not too large and not too small. + Pleasant music and graphics. + Devs release improvements all the time.

Sept. 2024

I got into it because I wanted it to train me on how to multitask, react under pressure and be solution orientated instead of defeatist. After 200 hours, can I say that the game has helped me improve? Well maybe I've made about 1% of the progress I had in mind, but the answer is yes, and I can tell you the game provides a platform where you can put more than just those qualities to the test. I've never played an RTS before and there are points where I find the game almost uncomfortable to play when my little brain wants to rest and to stop thinking about what needs to be done in each moment. Idling is a deadly sin in Age of Empires and every resolution is followed immediately by another decision tugging at your shirt. As a newcomer watching experienced players, they almost seem superhuman - able to simultaneously defend and grow their economy, thoughtfully tuning their resource income while attacking elsewhere on the map, scouting, building, collecting relics, researching technologies and no doubt formulating new plans. I've never felt this sort of ravenous mental demand from a game before and I find it really exciting. Games with more than 2 players can even challenge you with elements of real diplomacy and you can find yourself in the midst of all kinds of funny and tooth-grinding betrayals. Easy to learn, hard to master has probably never been more true. They make the fundamentals as plain and uncomplicated as you can imagine: select unit with left click, then send him to work with right click. Boundless confidence. And then you squint your eyes, gleefully studying the path of progression until you realise it. Not a learning curve, but a learning cliff. Step online and you can look forward to being chewed up and spat out down the precipice again and again by a loyal and grizzled player base and your rating will be in free fall until you land in with the chumps like me. While you might envision yourself playing like a coordinated, well-oiled machine, all kinds of different unknowns work against you to grate at your confidence and distract; build orders, costs, training/research times, unit counters, tech trees and even your own custom hotkeys all take time to internalise. Patience, self forgiveness and humility are needed. When you get sick of getting your arse whooped online, you can find respite and a lot of satisfaction playing against the AI in campaigns where you can control historical figures and their armies. You can play as history's actual real life Dracula defending his kingdom against the Ottomans, Joan of Arc against the English, Montezuma against the Spanish, Genghis Khan against.. well.. everyone. You spank Rome as the Goths, aid in the second crusade as the Germans and, after you've done that, you can undo all of your hard work and kick the Europeans out of Jerusalem as the Arabs. The game doesn't aim for 100% historical accuracy, so take its narratives with a pinch of salt, but having some imperfect, patchwork ideas of the past beats being completely oblivious in my book. The game will help you to form those ideas if you're interested. The civilisations are distinct and have unique advantages and mechanics which usually have fun historical or cultural bases. It's a really special game. It's almost like a celebration of different peoples and their achievements and history. Not in some tired, politically correct, virtue signalling, ego stroking sense but in a meaningful sense. Even with its updated MS DOS graphics and theatrical voice acting, it manages to quite profoundly speak to some of the cruel realities of conquest that 6 out of the 7 continents are bitterly intimate with. The test of viability that every nation must consistently pass in order to endure. The desperation and struggle and the threat of extermination and subjugation of your family and people, unless you fight bloody tooth and nail down to the very last scraps of resources just to keep the predators that lurk in the fog from your throat. Your people survived those predators. They passed the test. Or perhaps you think they failed because they lost wars and land and died while bravely fighting. Regardless, I think there's dignity in it and it inspires such love for all of you that I can't even start to describe it or explain why. Anyway, the game turns 25 years old today. Come join us in appreciating this timeless gem.

Feb. 2024

It's like the original, but with better graphics/resolution, QoL features and more content. 10/10

Feb. 2024

---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☑ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☑ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☑ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☑ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☐ Old Fashioned ☑ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☑ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☑ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average ☑ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☐ Never heard of ☑ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☑ 10

Jan. 2024

An excellent remaster of an absolute classic. Definitive Edition introduces several quality of life features that make the game more accessible to newcomers, while preserving the overall feel of the original. The new graphics are nice, some of the old campaigns received a much-needed overhaul and the devs put out new content every couple of months. My one gripe is that the DLCs are steadily becoming more expensive for the same amount of content.

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