I know there’s the definitive editions, but I don’t think it makes sense to pay $20 for a 25 year old game just for the better graphics when I prefer the simplicity of the old graphics.

Any download I’ve found just doesn’t work on newer graphics drivers. It’s sad to think this game may just be dead and unplayable forever now, lost to time.

Open source clones are appreciated too. I’ve heard of openage, but I don’t think that one’s finished yet, right?

  • ksynwa
    3·
    3 years ago

    I was gonna suggest try running it on Linux with wine or proton because sometimes older games work with no issues but looks like that is not the case with Age of Empires: https://www.protondb.com/app/1017900

    Edit: my bad. Seems like you don’t want to play the definitive edition. If you can tell me where I can find the OG game, I can try running it on Linux and let you know.

    • gunOP
      2·
      3 years ago

      The only exe I found that works is for windows. But wine lets you run windows programs in linux right? I may have to try it myself.

      • ksynwa
        3·
        3 years ago

        Yeah. Can be as simple as running wine filename.exe.