Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition stands out as one of the best Strategy titles in recent memory.
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Very Positive on Steam (95% positive from 176K reviews)
Active community with 21,003 concurrent players
No significant drawbacks reported
Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition is a 2019 real-time strategy video game developed by World's Edge and Forgotten Empires and published by Xbox Game Studios. It is a remaster of the 1999 game Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings, celebrating the 20th anniversary of the original. It features significantly improved visuals, supports 4K resolution, and includes all previous expansions from the original and HD Edition. In addition, the game includes an expansion to the HD Edition called The Last Khans, which adds four new civilizations based on Central Asia and Eastern Europe, as well as four new campaigns. Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition was released for Windows on November 14, 2019, and was ported to Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S on January 31, 2023. A PlayStation 5 version was released on May 6, 2025.
Runs well on modern hardware.
Last updated 18d ago
I have bought this game on Windows, Linux, Xbox, but I would have never thought I'd ever see this game available on MacOS. I don't know what happened but I'm glad it did!
So Feral brought Age of Empire II back to mac. It works, for solo play. However, they decided to restrict multiplayer to mac only, so the whole mac version is cut off from the multiplayer community which is the reason this 20+ year old game is still relevant today. My friends don't have macs, I'd like to play with them. Age of Empires II runs under Asahi Linux, and supports multiplayer with others quite reliably. Until Feral publishes a good explanation of why cross-platform multiplayer is technically impossible, (or a roadmap on enabling it) you should probably refrain from buy this to play on a mac, just buy the steam version from a PC / Linux+Steam+Proton and play through Asahi Linux if you have a mac. (It used to be that running on VMWare Fusion would cause multiplayer game to desync, but I haven't tried again recently, nor have I tried Parallel).
Game won't even launch after the latest 177723 patch, it's been more than 24 hours with no fix please do something devs
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