Age of Mythology: Retold

Mythological real-time strategy with base building and god powers

World's Edge, Forgotten Empires, Tantalus Media, CaptureAge, Virtuos Games · Published by Xbox Game Studios · Released Sep 4, 2024

Strategy

Reviews: Very Positive; 90% of 24K
Recent reviews: Very Positive; 89% of 163 in 30 days
Playing now: 1,258; peak 24h 1,650
Steam Deck: Playable
Last update: 2 months ago; Jul 1, 2026

Metacritic: 83/100 (critic reviews)

What is Age of Mythology: Retold?

A top-down real-time strategy game set in a world where humans, monsters, and gods fight. You build bases, manage resources, train armies from Greek, Norse, Egyptian, or Atlantean pantheons, and use god powers across campaigns, generated skirmish maps, Arena of the Gods, and multiplayer. The campaigns take these conflicts from Troy to Midgard and Egypt.

For you if...

+you enjoy base building and real-time resource management
+you want campaigns, skirmishes, co-op, and competitive multiplayer
+you like armies and powers drawn from several mythologies

Not for you if...

−you prefer turn-based strategy over real-time battles
−you dislike managing economies and armies simultaneously
−you want a purely historical strategy setting

What players say

90% of 23,542 reviews are positive · 89% of 163 in the last 30 days

Players praise the updated visuals, familiar RTS systems, varied pantheons, campaigns, and co-op Arena mode. The most common recent complaint concerns DLC practices, especially putting blood and corpse effects in a paid expansion pass and confusion over Premium Edition coverage. Some experienced players also report buggy updates, crashes, and unfair higher-difficulty AI behavior.

Screenshots and trailer

Age of Mythology: Retold system requirements

As published by the developer.

Minimum

OS: Windows 10 64bit
Processor: Intel® i3-4130 or AMD FX 4350 at 2.4GHZ+ with 2 cores / 4 threads and AVX support
Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 645 or AMD Radeon™ Vega 8 or Intel® Iris Graphics 550 or better
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Storage: 25 GB available space
DirectX: Version 12

PC version details

DRM, required accounts, controller support and Steam features.

DRM: None declared on Steam
Controller: Keyboard and mouse
Platforms: Windows
Achievements: 132
Steam features: Cloud saves, Family Sharing

Steam Deck: Playable

Some in-game text is small and may be hard to read
All functionality is accessible with the default controller configuration
Shows Steam Deck controller icons
Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck
External controllers are not supported for the primary player

Multiplayer and co-op

Languages

Full audio: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese. Text only: Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese, Czech, Hungarian.