Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition

Age of Empires 4: Anniversary Edition is another excellent real-time strategy game from the now venerable series that popularised the subgenre back in the late 90s and early 2000s (with 'popular' being a relative term).

I grew up playing the Age of Empires games, as well as Age of Mythology, to near exhaustion. Whilst everyone else was having the time of their lives with Blizzard’s real-time strategy offerings, I was standing on the hill that Ensemble Studios’ creations were much, much better in terms of depth, replayability, and overall amount of content. One of the worst things Microsoft has ever done to gaming, in fact, was shutting that studio down altogether, giving Relic Entertainment the keys to t...