Real-time strategy game through different historical periods, allowing you to build civilizations and engage in battles.
Age of Empires is a shareware game app and developed by Microsoft for Windows.
The download has been tested by an editor here on a PC.
Strategy gaming at its best by Microsoft
It's the dawn of a new age in real-time strategy (RTS) games. A brave New World is rising – a hostile yet beautiful world, filled with innovative gameplay, new strategic scenarios, eye-searing graphics and much more. In this action adventure tale of historical fiction, players take on the role of Morgan Black and his family, struggling against the hostile wilderness and a mysterious cult that's crept in from Europe.
In a series of 24 scenarios divided into three acts, Morgan Black and his descendants help the Aztecs resist conquest by Spanish conquistadors, pit the French against the British in the French and Indian War and help Simon Bolivar lead revolutions in South America.
Not only are you in command of large and diverse armies of infantry, cavalry and artillery, but also Native American warriors, mercenaries and tall ships. You can assign different formations to your army for different strengths and weaknesses, or have the game automatically choose the most appropriate formation.
Shingles, shutters and whole towers may fly off a building and interact with the terrain, such as crashing into nearby water. This next generation effect is done on the fly so that each building always has a unique destruction, no matter how many times you see it.
Compatibility and License
This download is licensed as shareware for the Windows operating system from strategy games and can be used as a free trial until the trial period ends (after an unspecified number of days). The Age of Empires III demo is available to all software users as a free download with potential restrictions and is not necessarily the full version of this software.
What version of Windows can Age of Empires run on?
Age of Empires can be used on a computer running Windows 11 or Windows 10. It runs on both 32-bit and 64-bit systems with no dedicated 64-bit download provided.
Other operating systems: The latest Age of Empires version from 2024 is also available for Mac.
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