Age of Empires

Age of Empires

released on Oct 15, 1997

Age of Empires

released on Oct 15, 1997

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.


Also in series

Age of Empires III
Age of Empires III
Age of Mythology
Age of Mythology
Age of Empires II: The Conquerors
Age of Empires II: The Conquerors
Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings
Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings
Age of Empires: The Rise of Rome
Age of Empires: The Rise of Rome

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My first RTS. Actually got this game out of a cereal packet... those were the days.

Meu eu criança achava que esse jogo era um city builder.

WOLOLOOO, el mejor juego de estrategia para mi, me encantaba este juego, mis dieces, recomendado.

9/10. One of my first PC games, probably the best thing I ever got from a cereal box.

Never got good at the game and the genre is not for me, but I liked progressing my civilisation, and even playing around in custom mode, using the game almost as a city builder. Sometimes I’d stay Stone Age and have an expansive army of clubmen and axemen, trying to take on armoured phalanxes and siege weapons. And of course the cheats were classics.

It may be the bias of a 'game played every day of my childhood', but this is one of the best strategy games I have ever played!
Amazing RTS game, amazing AOE entry.