After Age of Empires Mobile was announced in 2021 and it was known that it was in development, it landed on mobile stores to bring the strategy classic to the touch screen. along the way I lost most of the strategygained slowdown times and many in-app purchases; The result is a caffeine-free Age of Empires.

I don’t know how many hours I spent on Age of Empires II, I’d probably be embarrassed if I could count. Because it was always one of the headline headlines, the reference for what a good strategy headline should be. The Sierra games were so good, I still have Caesar III, but there was something about Microsoft’s vision that attracted me more than other games. And of course, I was looking forward to the mobile version.

Age of Empires Mobile is a mobile game that stands out with its name alone.

The company developing the game is not Microsoft, but Timi, one of Tencent’s studios, is behind it. Theirs are other games like Call of Duty Mobile, Arena of Valor or Pokémon Unite: Adaptation of important franchises to mobile phones Implementation of simple mechanics, time limits, and slowed progression that can be sped up with microtransactions. It perfectly describes Age of Empires Mobile.

There’s little strategy in the new strategy game for Android, as most of the experience is guided. Allows for village administration, peasant specialization or research, but in a very limited way. The basis for this is a constant advancement in skills and abilities that go beyond Age of Empires.

Automatic island wars in Age of Empires Mobile

Automatic fights to earn a collection of heroes, progression times that will be extended depending on their complexity (and can be accelerated by paying), treasure chests containing random items, rewards containing more items should be collected periodically and the operation of the set in the background, which is hardly affected by the actor’s actions.

Not to mention the legendary heroes we got to collect as if they were a deck of Pokémon cards. Heroes that, as always, can be purchased directly at the checkout.

Age of Empires is now a collectible card game

Age of Empires Mobile is not a bad free game, it has top-notch graphics, a variety of historical periods and more or less follows the style set by Microsoft. The problem is not different at all As for the hundreds of free resource management games that fill the Google Play Store: I see no incentive to keep the game on my Android device after playing it. And that’s a shame.

If you like Age of Empires, my advice is to avoid downloading it because it will definitely disappoint you. If you want a simple resource management game that you can play occasionally, maybe it’s for you. Even so, it won’t cost you anything to try it: you can download Age of Empires for free from the Google Pay Store.

Download Age of Empires Mobile from Google Play Store

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