Age of Mythology: Retold

Moderate overall intensity
Highest flag: Spending — real-money purchases
FantasyMythologyStrategy

What's in it

Spending real-money purchases
High

Optional paid DLC expansions add extra pantheons and campaigns beyond the base game.

Violence cartoon/stylized
Low

Small-scale real-time-strategy combat where soldiers and mythological creatures clash with swords, arrows, and magic; minor blood in melee with no gore or dismemberment.

Dark themes mild
Low

Mythic-war storyline touches on death, betrayal, and a hero's grief over a mortal love who dies of old age.

Animal combat combat mechanic
Low

Villagers hunt ordinary wild animals such as deer and boar as a food-gathering mechanic.

Spending pressure optional
Low

Extra content is available for purchase but is fully optional with no energy gating or pay-to-win mechanics.

Who can reach your kid

Chat with strangersUser-created contentStranger friend requests

What it is

Age of Mythology: Retold is a remastered real-time strategy game where you gather resources, build a base, and command armies drawn from Greek, Norse, Egyptian, Atlantean, and (via expansions) Chinese and Japanese mythology. You call on gods for special powers and summon legendary creatures like cyclopes, trolls, and mummies to fight rival civilizations across a 50-mission story campaign and in online multiplayer. Combat is fought at a zoomed-out strategy scale with minor melee blood but no gore, and wild animals are hunted for food. It includes optional paid expansions, a built-in scenario editor for custom content, and online play with text chat against strangers.

How it's framed

The game frames its content as mythological warfare: divine powers and monstrous units are tools of conquest in a fantastical clash of pantheons, and its story treats themes of death, immortality, and betrayal as legend rather than realistic depiction.

Details

Developer
World's Edge, Tantalus Media, Forgotten Empires
Publisher
Xbox Game Studios
Released
2024-09-04
Metacritic 82critic score (third-party) · out of 100

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