Every Age of Empires Game Ranked, From Worst To Best
The list, according to the article:
Not quite the same series, but also Microsoft. Rise of Nations. Would be nice to see that one have a remake.
Anyway, Age of Empires 1. (Original edition) will always be my favorite, even though it’s not what people now should be playing.
That is definitely 2 Definitive. (With the Rome expansion bringing 1 DE into that game 😄)
I never played Rise of Nations or Empire Earth back in the day. But I've seen enough about them that I would love for either (or both!) of them to receive a good definitive edition.
Empire Earth was also nice indeed. But for current repeatability RoN definitely holds up much better. I think that one is still fun.
Mobile is undoubtedly the worst. It's unbearable. Hardly even a game.
I've never played the DS game. I might put Age of Empires Online in this spot instead.
It's unfortunate, to me, that 3 ended up this low. It's not my favourite, by a long shot, but it's functional and fun. Which is more than can be said for the DE version of 1. I love the bones of 1, but the DE was terrible. So terrible that they tried releasing it again in the Return to Rome DLC for 2.
Which leaves us with the 3 good games. Being the mod of this community, nobody should be surprised that my favourite is Myth. 4 is actually my second favourite, and 2 is only in 3rd place. But Myth still has too many bugs and missing polish features. Even though it's my #1 favourite, if I was asked to list which I think is the best, I'd put it in 3rd.