Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition
Moderate overall intensityWhat's in it
Medieval warfare shown from a top-down strategic view: massed soldiers, cavalry, and siege engines clash and die with small-scale blood effects, but no gore or dismemberment.
Campaigns and documentary-style interludes present real medieval wars, conquests and the loss of life that came with them.
Standard resource gathering where players hunt deer and boar and herd sheep for food.
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What it is
Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition is a historical real-time strategy game where you gather resources, build a medieval settlement, advance through ages of technology and command armies to defeat rival civilizations. The main content is military conflict: you direct soldiers, cavalry, archers and siege engines against enemy human troops and towns, viewed from a zoomed-out overhead perspective with only small amounts of blood and no gore. Single-player campaigns retell real medieval wars, accompanied by documentary-style history videos. Animals like deer and boar can be hunted for food. There is no sexual content, strong language, or substances. Online multiplayer lets you play with or against strangers using text and voice chat.
How it's framed
The game frames warfare through the lens of documented history, presenting battles, sieges and conquests as strategic and educational rather than gratuitous; violence is abstracted at the army level and the tone treats military conflict as the natural mechanic of empire-building and historical competition.
Details
- Developer
- World's Edge
- Publisher
- Xbox Game Studios
- Released
- Oct 28, 2021
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