Age of Empires IV

Age of Empires 4 is an enjoyable RTS throwback that often plays it too safe, but excels when it doesn't.

We got hands-on with the closed network test for From Software's next game, and it felt both familiar and different in an exciting way.

History repeats itself with a joyful, educational flourish in Age of Empires 4, a game of sweet simplicity and bottomless depth.

A worthy new entry in the legendary series that's equal parts progressive and dated.

Age of Empires 4 revives the series’ brilliance

A triumphant return for the strategy series, and well worth the wait.

Age of Empires IV successfully captures some of the magic of earlier titles in the franchise with clean, crisp gameplay and varied playstyles.

Relic returns with this safe but solid modern revitalisation of the classic real-time strategy series

“Age of Empires IV” is a simple, pleasurable game that rewards developing high skill but does not require it to push and learn your way through. It gives you troops and their upgrades and some buildings and lets you decide what you want to do with them. It gave me a lot of freedom to make my own choices within a narrative that constantly told me how cool I was for playing in a historical playground with some of the coolest people who ever lived. These pleasures are few and far between in life, and I savored this one.

Age of Empires 4 is a brilliant sequel to an RTS classic that plays it safe while streamlining some of the series' more tedious mechanics.