2024 was a year for Age of Empires and Age of Mythology players and —a year shaped by your passion, creativity, and epic moments. Thanks to your dedication, it’s been an incredible year not just for the community, but for the franchise as a whole. Together, we’ve had an incredible year. We kicked things off with the New Year, New Age showcase, crowned champions at Red Bull Wololo: El Reinado, connected with many of you at Gamescom, and celebrated the launches of Age of Mythology: Retold and Age of Empires Mobile. Along the way, we expanded the franchise in new ways and welcomed over 10 million new players—reaching an incredible milestone of 60 million Age of Empires players worldwide.

Our players continue to influence the many ways in which the franchise moves forward. Today we’re thrilled to start 2025 by unveiling what’s ahead. Settle in, because we’ve got a lot to share!

The current Season's Feast Event is now ending on February 12th at 10:00 am PT! But don't worry - we are hard at work for the next update! Here's a sneak peek of what's coming soon!

• Refreshing adjustments for Malians and Japanese in the Feudal Age.
  
• Increased counterplay to Elephants.
  
• Elite Army Tactics grants health instead of armor again.

The Steam Real-Time Strategy Fest is here and so are the discounts! Pick up that one Age game you've been meaning to play and join in all the fun!

Don't wait - discounts end January 27th at 10:00 AM PT (1:00 PM ET / 18:00 UTC)

The holiday season is here and so are the sales! Finish your holiday shopping and get up to 75% off Age of Empires games during the Steam Winter Sale!

Don't wait - discounts end January 2nd at 10:00 AM PT (1:00 PM ET / 18:00 UTC)

Hello, Age IV community! We delivered what we thought would be our final patch of the year on November 19th, and then your diligent eyes spotted a bug. We’ve wrapped up one final gift as part of this year’s Season’s Feast, and today’s hotfix brings with it a quick Malians bug fix heading into the holidays.

• Fixed an issue with the Malian Mansa Javelineer’s Farimba unlock being available at the Archery Range in Feudal Age.

💬 DISCUSS: Official Forum[forums.ageofempires.com]
💬 DISCUSS: Steam Forum
🗣 JOIN: Official Discord[discord.gg]

Thanks again to our amazing community members, all of whom have helped to make Age of Empires what it is today!

—The Age of Empires Team

:alertalert: DISCLAIMER

This list is subject to change and should not be considered a comprehensive list of all the known issues we’re tracking. The above is to inform you of the team’s current priorities, which will change as other issues arise or take precedence.

For the latest updates and announcements, please visit our social channels.

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Hello, Age of Empires IV community! We’ve packaged up a new patch with care prior to the new year and are happy to share it with you today. In this patch, we’re following up on your feedback from the Season Nine update, in addition to fixing some impactful issues, such as the Xbox Team Game crash that you’ve reported.

💬 DISCUSS: Official Forum[forums.ageofempires.com]
💬 DISCUSS: Steam Forum
🗣 JOIN: Official Discord[discord.gg]

Thanks again to our amazing community members, all of whom have helped to make Age of Empires what it is today!

—The Age of Empires Team

Please Note: As part of updating to this latest build, any saved games and observable matches made on previous builds will be unable to be loaded or replayed.

This is just a small taste of what is coming in the latest update. For a more complete list, please visit our site and check out our blog. Happy Gaming!

[www.ageofempires.com]

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Season’s Feast

New Event!

This event is full of gifts to celebrate the Season! We have many challenges and rewards to customize your profile to match the season of giving. As well as a brand-new game mode filled with gifts to get you those victories! Keep your eyes on the battlefield and see how many gifts you can find.
Login between November 19th at 10:00am PT (1:00pm ET / 18:00 UTC) and February 5th to share in the season’s festivities!

New Event Game Mode: Season’s Feast

It’s the season of giving! So, we’re giving you a new game mode filled with gifts, only trouble is we left them on the battlefield. Search the map and see if you can find them and the great rewards within.

Fight against your opponents in a standard match style with gifted bonuses to give you that competitive edge. Gifts can contain resources, units and even buffs so make sure you find them first. We aren’t sure how we managed to get a Trebuchet into those gift boxes, but we do hope you put them to good use!

Ranked Season Updates

Season Nine kicked off on October 22nd at 10:00am PT (18:00 UTC) and is currently set to run through March 31st. While we don’t have a map pool update in this patch, we are planning to switch up the map pool early next year.

This is just a small taste of what is coming in the latest update. For a more complete list, please visit our site and check out our blog. Happy Gaming!

[www.ageofempires.com]

:alertalert: DISCLAIMER

This list is subject to change and should not be considered a comprehensive list of all the known issues we’re tracking. The above is to inform you of the team’s current priorities, which will change as other issues arise or take precedence.
For the latest updates and announcements, please visit our social channels.

Hello, wonderful Age of Empires IV community! We hope you are enjoying Season Nine so far! First, we want to thank you for your feedback regarding changes introduced in this season. Based on what we’ve heard from you, we have some news to share regarding some of the gameplay changes we have arriving in an upcoming patch as well as some of the areas we’re continuing to observe for additional tuning in the future.

Our philosophy is that the game should grow and evolve alongside our player base, and siege and late gameplay are two areas where we saw a lot of opportunity to bring refreshing changes after three years of growth and play.

While we’re excited to tune the meta in this way, we also prize good balance – and we know you do as well. The process of balancing this much change will require iteration and incremental improvement, guided by your responses and the strategies we see you develop over time. Based on your initial feedback following the Season Nine release, we’ve already made some small changes introduced on October 31st and we have some other early adjustments coming to specific areas, such as cavalry being too strong in team games and balance around both infantry and siege.

To address these areas, we will be adjusting the following and more; Biology, siege damage against buildings, springald power level, and bombard cannon damage against elephants. Furthermore, adjustments to the strongest ranked civilizations in team games, such as the Abbasid Dynasty, will also be included in this patch. We hope you enjoy these changes when they release, and we’d ask that you please keep posting your feedback in the Official Forums as it is immensely helpful for us to see and digest your thoughts as we continue our planning for an early 2025 patch.

Official Age of Empires Forums

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As we continue onward with Season Nine and approach the incredible milestone that is our tenth season, we want to look ahead as a community of developers and players towards the future of the game and the path we are set on together. We’ve already shared that 2025 is an exciting year for Age of Empires IV with DLC on the way, and we truly believe that fine-tuning and refreshing some of the gameplay experience along the way lends itself well to some of the excitement to come.

Thank you, good luck, and have fun!

Community-Reported Issues:

Your reports continue being crucial to our prioritization and implementation of fixes and features in the game. Keep them coming[forums.ageofempires.com]!

For other known issues, please visit this page[support.ageofempires.com] to see what’s being tracked!