Rise of Nations: Extended Edition

Rise of Nations: Extended Edition centers on guiding a nation through successive historical ages, balancing resources, research and land, sea and air forces. The current price at Kinguin is ≈ $5.60. Its linked-scenario Conquer the World campaign gives the strategy a solo structure, while multiplayer is also supported; weigh that mix against your budget if you want a broad historical strategy game rather than a narrowly focused skirmish. At $19.99 on Steam, you can compare the platform price with the offer at Kinguin.

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94%Steam Reviews13.4K reviews

Released: Jun 12, 2014

Strategy · RTS · Classic · Multiplayer · Historical

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01About Rise of Nations: Extended Edition

Guide a nation from a single ancient city toward the Information Age. Gather resources, develop infrastructure, research technologies and expand military forces across land, sea and air. The Conquer the World campaign links dozens of scenarios, while varied nations and maps offer different starting settings. Steam players rate it 94%% positive from 13,399 reviews. Steam PC interface languages include English, German, French, Italian and Spanish. English has full audio.

Credits

Developer

SkyBox Labs · Big Huge Games

Publisher

Xbox Game Studios

Steam player reviews

94%positiveVery Positive13,399 Steam reviews

Lowest recorded in 36 months

$4.992023-08-28 · SteamBase game · same records as the chart above; USD history, not a regional Steam low.

Language support

Language	Interface	Subtitles	Audio
English	Yes	—	Yes
French	Yes	—	—
Italian	Yes	—	—

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Language	Interface	Subtitles	Audio
German	Yes	—	—
Spanish	Yes	—	—

Steam PC edition data · 2026-10-20

02Before you buy

Gameplay

Rise of Nations: Extended Edition is a real-time strategy game spanning historical ages, with resource gathering, research and military expansion. Its Conquer the World campaign links dozens of scenarios.

Modes and languages

The Steam PC version lists single-player, multiplayer and co-op. English has full audio; German, French, Italian and Spanish are supported interface languages.

03Frequently asked questions

What is the core gameplay?

Begin with a city in the Ancient Age, gather resources, research technologies and expand your nation through successive ages.

Is there a campaign?

Yes. The Conquer the World campaign is described as a linked series of dozens of scenarios.

What multiplayer options are available?

The Steam PC version supports multiplayer and co-op, and the description specifically mentions ranked multiplayer matches using ELO.

Popular Steam reviews

Native-language selection · 10 reviews

Selected 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

11/07/2015

This review is dedicated to my friend Gary who died of cancer. He introduced me to this game and I have a big soft spot for its simple mechanics. Its easy to pick up and difficult to put down. This game only came on Steam a year or so ago. We played the retail release. This new version adds Twitch support and is a lot more friendly to modern systems and resolutions. I've not clocked long on it mainly due to the bitter sweet memories. I like the units in this game. My only complaint with this has been that there could have been more nations to choose from. But that is minor. Its right up there with Age of Empires et al. Goodnight Gary. I'll keep winning for you. P.S. For those unable to comprehend this is a Steam review for an 18 year old game that only came to Steam in 2014. This is a review of the retail version as well as a few notes of my experiences with the new extended features. The majority of my playtime pre-dates Steam itself as a platform. I suspect my playtime on this to be in the thousands of hours but alas I have no way of checking. Some of you are very young but before Steam we used to go to stores and buy video games on CD-ROMs and DVD-ROMs and install them from them and use a unique CD key in the box to veryfy it's authenticity. Crazy, right?!Show moreShow less

7.9 hours at review2,827 people found this helpful

Not recommendedSteam player

08/07/2019

This is hands down my favorite RTS ever. Having said that, sadly, the multiplayer is terrible now. Thumbs down for that. I can't even play with my son on the computer next to me. (each with RoN:EE purchased on separate accounts). The LAN multiplayer is gone. The forced online multiplayer is unreliable and disconnects randomly about 50% of the time. Hence, the game is ruined. Its so frustrating and disappointing. Ruined the best RTS ever. :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( I RECOMMEND THIS GAME FOR SOLO PLAY ONLY. NOT MULTIPLAYER.Show moreShow less

112.9 hours at review658 people found this helpful

RecommendedSteam player

11/08/2014

I've been playing Rise of Nations for about ten years, since I was little. Probably the best RTS I've ever played. General: > Citrus repairs nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. > Titanium intensifies the Russian Winter. > Sheep make your civilization smarter. > War Elephants instantly transform into tanks. > Horses make tanks cheaper. > Papyrus makes it cheaper to invent electricity. > Rafts with bonfires instantly transform into nuclear attack submarines. > Bears make it cheaper and easier to create the Department of Homeland Security and institute the draft. > The Aztecs can field tank divisions. > The Mongols support their horse archers with fighter jets. > American Hoplites and Cataphracts. > You can bribe trebuchets to transform into howitzers. Conquer the World Campaigns: > Play as Alexander the Great; beat up Indians and steal their elephants. > Play as an European or Native American power; beat up Carribbean islanders and steal their rum. > Play as Napoleon and stop Lewis & Clark's nefarious expedition. > Play as Mikhail Gorbachev, eliminate Jimmy Carter's NATO and steal Ronald Reagan's nukes. > Help the Americans and Chinese fight the Mongols and Ottomans in World War I for control of Mongol-held SIberia. 11/10Show moreShow less

117 hours at review983 people found this helpful

Not recommendedSteam player

03/23/2023

The Extended Edition fails to correctly calculate the damage which units and buildings are supposed to deal. While it does not affect literally every matchup, it does affect every unit or building in some way and causes the damage in roughly 30,000 (THIRTY. THOUSAND.) specific matchups to be incorrectly calculated. Game balance suffers significantly as a result, and unit compositions during the first 4-5 ages become especially boring because certain unit groups are far stronger or weaker than they were ever intended to be, and as such players are forced to use the buffed-by-incompetence units very heavily. Even people who don't play multiplayer are affected. For example, anyone trying to get through the singleplayer Alexander the Great campaign will run into a significant challenge: the opponent's unique elephant units take only a fraction of the damage which they're supposed to from Foot Archers, making them many times more resilient than the campaign was balanced for. That such a wide-reaching and consequential bug remains unaddressed almost nine years after the Extended Edition's release is to me an unacceptable outcome. It should not fall on the community to fix such fundamental issues in a paid product. Additionally there are many other small-medium issues which are also not resolved: other gameplay bugs, tooltip errors, poor networking (issues in multiplayer are common), no UI scaling, scripting bugs, sound bugs, graphics bugs, etc. Many of these are inherited from the old school versions of the game, but a few are exclusive to the Extended Edition. Despite adding Steam Workshop support, the Extended Edition fails to competently implement mod support. Mods that are instructed to be unloaded will not always unload, so-called "dropdown mods" which can be selected in game lobbies will almost always cause multiplayer games to fail to load regardless of the mod's contents, and custom scenarios / custom scripts are difficult to make use of in multiplayer games because support for them has been eroded compared to the older versions of the game. Such a lack of improvement in so many areas leaves the benefits of the Extended Edition over previous versions of the game to be a very short list, whilst the list of downsides is -- at minimum by quantity -- substantially larger.Show moreShow less

19.5 hours at review326 people found this helpful

RecommendedSteam player

06/11/2014

One of the best game revivals. RoN became very fast my favorite strategy games once it got released at 2003 and later with its expasion at 2004. I love it as it consists of gameplay of all eras. Starting with your slignshots and swords, and improving until you get missiles and stealth bombers. It's story is quite good and reminds you of the glory days with some great battle. Multiplayer is one of its best elements. Playing with your friends co-op versus with AI or just an all out battle! Customise the teams as you want and also the battle's options like map size, technologies and winning methods. Now let's talk about Extended Edition. <---Skip here if you just want to learn the differences. The game graphics look quite similar but definitelly smoother. You can feel the overall gameplay and animations of the charaters being so smooth while moving and fighting. Multiplayer is here once again with leaderboards! As gamespy is dying the game now has multiplayer once again and better than ever! I am hoping to see an ever bigger map though and more units instead of just 200/300. I bet it wouldn't be much of a problem nowadays with the new updated and powerful computers. Twitch! Do you like streaming and showing off your gameplay? This will be very handy for you. Log in, hit the record button and show your fans all your strategy tactics on how you beat your opponent! The only downside for me is that the game looks quite similar, yet some small very handy improvements will make it quite better. Bigger maps, yes bigger than Big Huge. People using the editor can remake their countries and some of their battles with a proper big terrain. More units! Setting the unit price to lower and having more units in battle will totally increase the fun of the game. More players? With bigger maps, more players can be added as well. 12 or something like that. Overall? If you liked the original, you are gonna like this one as well. If you haven't played the original, then if you like real time strategy games, you are gonna love it too!Show moreShow less

11 hours at review374 people found this helpful

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