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Age of Empires: Definitive Edition
Historical campaigns and online battles for up to eight players make Age of Empires: Definitive Edition suitable for both solo strategy and multiplayer sessions. It costs ≈ $3.25 from 
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Past 36 months · Updated dailyHistorical Low~ $3.052026-07Current Low Across Stores~ $17.49Kinguinvs. Historical Low+473%
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01About Age of Empires: Definitive Edition
Build a civilization, manage its growth, and lead armies through historical campaigns in Age of Empires: Definitive Edition, a real-time strategy game refreshed with updated gameplay and visuals. Steam players rate it 84%% positive across 14,372 reviews. The Steam PC version released on August 19, 2019. Interface languages include Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese-Brazil, Russian, Spanish-Latin America, and Vietnamese.
Credits
LEAD DESIGNER
Bert Beeckman
Belgian video game designer
Developer
World's Edge · Forgotten Empires · Tantalus
Publisher
Xbox Game Studios
Lowest recorded in 36 months
$3.052026-07-30 · KinguinBase game · same records as the chart above; USD history, not a regional Steam low.Language support
| Language | Interface | Subtitles | Audio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Simplified Chinese | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Traditional Chinese | Yes | Yes | — |
| English | Yes | Yes | Yes |
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| Language | Interface | Subtitles | Audio |
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| French | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Italian | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| German | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Spanish | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Japanese | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Korean | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Portuguese-Brazil | Yes | Yes | — |
| Russian | Yes | Yes | — |
| Spanish-Latin America | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Vietnamese | Yes | Yes | — |
Steam PC edition data · 2026-10-19
02Before you buy
Play modes
The Steam PC version supports single-player and multiplayer for up to eight players, including online battles.
Language and creation
English is supported for interface, full audio, and subtitles. The game also includes a scenario builder for creating and sharing scenarios.
03Frequently asked questions
What is included in the campaign?
The description states that the updated campaign content spans more than 40 hours and has new narration and pacing.
Can I make custom scenarios?
Yes. The scenario builder lets players create scenarios and share their creations.
What visual updates are included?
The Steam PC version features 4K HD visuals and overhauled animations.
Popular Steam reviews
Native-language selection · 10 reviewsSelected helpful reviews in this language show both recommendations and criticisms. This selection does not represent the overall positive rating; opinions reflect the version reviewed.
RecommendedSteam player
It's the very 1st game I'd played, with my Dad. Very nice remake, on my way to play with the old man again.Show moreShow less
0.2 hours at review243 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
For anyone wondering whether to buy this game wait a few months to see if the bugs are fixed. The crashes and errors are so bad I had to start the game three times to get the five minutes needed to write this review. And requires an internet connection to play? In 2019? We left archaic DRM in the past. Bad launches like this can kill a game, by the time it's fixed the fans that bought it will recall the bad taste they got at launch and everyone else won't care. Ironic that a developer for an Age of Empires game hasn't learned from history.Show moreShow less
0.1 hours at review557 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
EDIT: Make sure to add your game to your AV software in order to fix the error message that kick you out of your game. We shouldn't really have to do this, but that's the fix. I purchased this once on the windows store but I wanted it on steam due to windows store's chronic uselessness. It seems to be working without major issues so far. The UI is a bit dodgy with scaling (text overlap) and buttons flickering when hovering over them but nothing game breaking. Not had any crashes but I did have to make sure the game was allowed through windows defender or I got an error message that stopped me from playing until I allowed permissions. I am not a hardcore AoE player by any means, I play it a lot more casually. This means I can't speak much for balance and high level gameplay but I can praise the detailed tooltips and the updated graphics and animations really capture the feel of the old game and are very smooth. If you're like me and only played AoE 1 single player casually and wanted to recapture the game from your childhood then this is perfect for that. Will update if I encounter any game breaking issues. EDIT: So after a few more games I ran in to the old problem - the unit pathfinding is pretty bad, it's not the end of the world and it's exactly how the old game played but it would have been nice to see that improved and may put off some players. Units get stuck on each other all the time and it requires a bit of micro managing to separate them out a bit which gets a bit grating during longer play sessions. I still think the game is worth getting if you're a fan wanting to treat your nostalgia but don't expect much more than a visual overhaul and some UI improvements, it's a fine remaster but not a remake.Show moreShow less
0.7 hours at review187 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
Even with our big computers multithreading if you make a game with 4 other comptuers with 200 population, the game will lag like no tomorrow. No point of making a definitive edition with all the bells and whistles(more pop caps for example) when the game can't support it...Show moreShow less
15.8 hours at review311 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
Microsoft: *Doesn't put the game on Steam* Me: *Doesn't buy it.* Microsoft: *Puts game on Steam* Me: *Buys it.* Keep it up Microsoft! I've played this game series for the majority of my life, glad to have it here on Steam. The game performs very smooth for me, no user interface glitches, slow-downs, or lag so far. It's an old game, I never expected a miracle; it performs as expected.Show moreShow less
1.1 hours at review181 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
Saying not recommended feels harsh, but there's not exactly a middle option. If you have nostalgia goggles for Age of Empires, you'll get some enjoyment out of this regardless of its flaws. I debated getting a refund, but ultimately decided I'd enjoy revisiting the scenarios from my childhood again despite the flaws. First off, game looks pretty. Animations are lovely, everything looks vibrant. I really like the UI too. The score has been redone and is nice enough. Performance can be choppy. Frame rate stutters sometimes for reasons I've yet to make heads of. It's not too bad, but it's noticeable to the eye. Pathfinding is TERRIBLE. I don't want to sound like I'm exaggerating, but every game has been bogged down by it at least once. Moving single units isn't too bad. Moving a group - sometimes they'll walk past where I tell them to go and keep going. In at least one occasion an axeman couldn't get to a tower to reach from one side of a forest so walked around the entire forest to reach the other side. When he got there.... he walked back round to where he originally was despite the fact that he had an opening. All the while being shot at. People walk into one another and stutter and struggle to sidestep (I actually remember this being a pain in the original, which makes it more baffling how it's there after 20+ years). Sometimes these are minor, but others can make the game a chore. If you've only ever played AoE2 and are thinking of checking this out, I will say this feels slower gameplay wise, just like the original. Some really nice additions (at least I think they are... been a while since I played the original). You can queue up different unit and tech orders in the same building. Some touches from AoE2:HD come over like auto-renewing farms, but not as many as I expected. Some of the menus don't render correct for me. The victory screen after a match has buttons showing over the victory text. I'll remain open to amending my review with further updates, I think with a few clean ups this could easily change to a recommended, but I'm a bit grumpy that these weren't ironed out sooner (hasn't it been on Windows Store for a year already? How weren't they caught then?). It does feel a little like I've paid for a beta. Your mileage may vary, but I'd still rather just keep playing AoE2:HD.Show moreShow less
3.6 hours at review178 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
The real wololo is back I’ll start my review saying that this game doesn’t deserve all the negativity is getting. People love the wololo meme, and also love to bash the first Age of Empires. The biggest characteristic of the Age of Empires series is that every game is unique in its own way. If you’re expecting a similar game as AoE 2 you’ll be disappointed, but if you keep an open mind, you’ll find a lot of enjoyment. Now to the actual review: Remastering the game that started it all Despite the great reworked graphics, this game is more of a remaster than a remake. This means that it’s very faithful to the original game, including its oldschool clunkyness. But still, the Forgotten Empires developers have added some great quality of life features, like farm reseeding, tech queues, indicator of how many idle villagers you have, walkable farms, higher population cap and other minor additions. It’s also worth mentioning that the AI has greatly improved compared to the original and compared to the Microsoft Store launch last year. These AI improvements, made primarily to add more spice to skmirmish matches, have a side-effect of making some campaign levels unfairly hard. The game also features a reworked soundtrack, recorded with an orchestra. Personally, I don’t like it too much, as the composer in charge have changed several melodies here and there, killing the nostalgic mood – imagine if someone re-recorded the classic Indiana Jones theme, starting fine and changing some notes in the way: that’s how it feels to me. What if I don’t want all this fanciness? Then you can enable the Classic Mode in custom games, which uses the original graphics, soundtrack and gameplay. This mode is very poorly implemented, though, for several reasons: 1) You can’t use it on the campaigns; 2) You can’t use it on multiplayer; 3) It starts with the vanilla soundtrack rather than the Rise of Rome soundtrack like it used to in the original with the expansion; 4) The interface is the same as the Definitive Edition, so it’s not totally nostalgic; 5) You can’t choose between the MIDI and the recorded soundtrack from the Gold Edition. I’m hoping these issues can be solved in a near future. And it would be good if we could choose to use the original sound effects outside Classic Mode, as some re-recorded sounds are truly awful. Yeah, they have changed the classic “Rogan?” sound to another “Rogan?” that sounds like it came from a drunk and high pitched voice actor. Unbelievable. What sets AoE 1 apart compared with AoE 2 If you never have played the first Age of Empires, you should know that a lot of strategies from Age of Empires II don’t work here. For starters, there’s no gate – I actually love this, because no one is ever safe, and you need to be creative with your walls placement, sometimes even creating some mazes that mashes with the environment. There’s also no land trading and no way to buy and sell resources on the market, so you need to plan a good strategy ahead as soon as you uncover the map. No army formations as well – it’s all brute and raw. There’s no scout at the start, so if you want to explore the map without hurting your progress (avoiding using your villagers to explore) you should advance to the second age (Tool Age) and train a scout – you could also use a Clubman, trained at the Barracks, but they’re too slow and don’t uncover a lot of the map. And the pathfinding is a lot simpler/poor (even if it’s slightly better in the Definitive Edition) compared to Age of Empires II, which to me it’s not a huge problem, as micromanaging units it’s one of the pillars of the RTS genre. Everything stated in this paragraph is what makes Age of Empires 1 my favorite in the series – it’s much less automated and comfortable than its successors, providing a more strategic experience. It’s worth the full price? As much as I love the first Age of Empires, I’m not sure if I could recommend it at full price to everyone, as it’s a whole different beast compared to Age of Empires II and other more modern RTS games. However, if you have enjoyed the original and/or you are used to older games, go ahead and pick it up right now; if not, wait for a sale. As for the Definitive Edition features: they’re a hit or miss sometimes. It’s certainly not definitive as it should be, but I’m glad that we at least have it, considering that the first Age of Empires is a very underrated game, shadowed by Age of Empires II, Age of Mythology and even by Age of Empires III. Pros: * Faithful remaster of the original game * Great quality of life upgrades * The reworked graphics are awesome * The AI is greatly improved (and harder) compared to the original game * Cross-platform multiplayer between Steam and Microsoft Store * You can easily change/modify the game’s files * Accessibility options * Steam Cloud support Mixed (may or may not bother you): * The reworked soundtrack is a hit or miss * Very grindy achievements… * …which can be obtained in custom scenarios and with ingame cheats. Yeah, I said it Cons * New sound effects makes no sense: some are re-recorded (and awful) and some are not * Stuttering on late game, and in some cases even before that. Unchecking some graphical improvements alleviates the problem a bit, but this shouldn’t happen * If you zoom out too much, the game locks your FPS to 30 for some reason * Classic Mode could be better implementedShow moreShow less
25.7 hours at review148 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
The fact that is conflicts with so many programs and the game crash despite not having any other program doesnt make me want to recommend the game. AOE 2 HD didnt do that.Show moreShow less
0.2 hours at review172 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
I wish there was a mixed option for this review, seeing as I cannot recommend this game nor can I not not recommend it. Pros: -High resolution graphics -Nice update from the original game (animations and visuals in general) -Combines everything from AoE and AoE RoR into a single game -For those looking for that old feeling of playing the original game, you will feel it Cons: -So many things could have been improved to make this a much much less irritating experience 1) No troop formation: Troops just wander and bump into each other continuously making it almost impossible to control and perform an effective attack or defence. It's hard to control more than 10 units, imagine a whole army. You have to select one by one in order to move them where you wish them to be. 2) Pathfinding sux: Troops and villagers get stuck all the time. If you don't pay attention, you might find out 15 minutes later that that villager you sent to build a watch tower was stuck in the forest all along. Combine this with the absence of troop formation, it becomes impossible and very painful to use strategy in a game that relies mostly on using strategy. 3) Priests range is 10+ yet for some reason they won't start healing unless the unit is almost completely next to it. Sometimes I have 5 or more units all wounded very close to the priest yet he doesn't do anything. Same thing for some units like War galley that won't start shooting enemy units on sight. No matter what position you choose for them, they see enemy troops next to them such as a villager constructing a building and they just stand there without any reaction. Another issue with range is that your war galleys have 8 range and the enemy tower has 6 or 7 (less than you), yet for some reason, go figure, your boats need to get into the tower's range in order to shoot it and at the same time be shot by it? What's the purpose of having increased range if they put themselves withing enemy's towers range? 4) Population caps at 50 in campaign: How are you supposed to beat a very difficult AI that constantly spams attacks at you and rebuilds everything that you destroy, when you have 20 villagers on resources, 10 boats and 20 army units = 50 population. 5) AI cheats or difficulty setting is bugged: I circled an enemy on an island, no resources left to gather, for 30 minutes continuously killing his villagers and troops with my boats without suffering any damage on my side, yet the AI never stops sending troops my way and never stops rebuilding every building I destroy (Easiest mode). 5)General bugs like a Gazelle running and stopping at mid-air jump position. I know the original game lacked everything I mentioned here, but how hard would it be to make a better pathfinding and options for troop formations like in AoE2? I doubt anyone would complain about this for not being like the original game.Show moreShow less
10.2 hours at review139 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
I would recommend the game if it weren't for the game-breaking enemy AI. In almost all skirmish games vs the AI, it will resign sooner than expected, not letting you "taste the victory" - sometimes not even letting you taste a fight. In 4 out of about 10 matches it happened to me that the AI resigned all of a sudden, when no attack was ongoing at its base. Some other times, it resigned after merely killing a few of its units. My feeling is that the AI checks how much its score is surpassed by the enemy team, and resignes if it is many times larger. I play vs AI 99% of my games, so I consider this problem pretty bad, and it severely decreases my ability to enjoy a game that would otherwise be a decent remaster. I will edit my review in case improvements are made. EDIT: A half workaround seems to be to play on Conquest victory mode, because then the AI is being forced to stay in-game until you raze it entirely. However, this sucks if you desperately want to play and win with Artifacts or Ruins, or Wonders. EDIT 2: The game also has missing features compared to the 2nd game, this is not really something I should expect, but something that makes the game much less enjoyable than AoE II. Formations are non existent, military units move around with no order whatsoever (speed isn't even reduced to the slowest unit for mixed armies)... Units also have a large "box" and easily get stuck in passages. Lack of gates is also something I don't like. I understand maintaining an original gameplay and all, but I just don't like it. Overall my opinion on the game is 60% nope and 40% yes, so if I could I'd rate it so-so, rather than making a negative review, but I cannot. EDIT as of 30.11.19 I made some more matches in the last months. Conquest as the sole victory option is not a fix. The enemy surrenders incredibly fast, presumably as soon as his economy is almost bankrupt and cannot produce units (this is a speculation though). This means that you spend time preparing your production, tech all up, recruit good armies, launch an attack... only to see the AI surrender after a brief battle. The game gets boring fast due to this. A pity.Show moreShow less
16 hours at review157 people found this helpful
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