Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings (1999)

All time rank: 112 of 1,000
1990s rank: 30 of 276
1999 rank: 3 of 42
List appearances: 30 lists
Developer: Ensemble Studios
Platform: Windows PC
Genre: Real-Time Strategy
Series: Age of Empires
Wikipedia: Wikipedia
IGDB: IGDB
HowLongToBeat: HowLongToBeat
Main: ~41h
Main+Extra: ~58h
100%: ~74h
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Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings

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2025 Dexerto
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2024 Dexerto
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2024 Moustique
On a classé les 100 meilleurs jeux vidéo depuis la sortie de Pong en 1972 #68
2023 British GQ
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2023 GameStar
Die 300 besten PC-Spiele: Das große Ranking #5
2023 GLHF
The best 100 games of all time, ranked #36
2022 Gamereactor
Best Ever: Spel #41
2022 GLHF
The 100 best video games of all time, ranked #35
2020 Hardcore Gaming 101
HG101 Presents: The 200 Best Video Games of All Time #1
2018 Game Informer
The Top 300 Games of All Time #139
2018 GameStar
Die 250 besten PC-Spiele aller Zeiten - Das große GameStar-Ranking #5
2018 Hyper
The 200 Games You Must Play #1
2017 Gamereactor
Gamereactor's Top 100 bedste spil nogensinde #44
2017 Jeuxvideo
Top 100 des meilleurs jeux de tous les temps #37
2017 Polygon
The 500 best games of all time #262
2017 Stuff
Stuff's Best Games Ever: The 50 greatest games of all time #41
2016 Power Up Gaming
The 100 Greatest Games Ever #43
2014 Stuff
Best Games Ever: the 20 greatest games of all time #7
2013 NA
1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die #1
2011 Gamereactor
Game Reactor top 100 #72
2009 Benchmark.pl
100 najlepszych gier XX wieku #1
2009 Empire
The 100 Greatest Games #59
2005 IGN
IGN's Top 100 Games #53
2005 The Age
The 50 best games #22
2003 Entertainment Weekly
We rank the 100 greatest early video games #44
2002 The Sydney Morning Herald
Top 50 video games of all time #19
2001 GameSpy
GameSpy's Top 50 Games of All Time #16
2000 GameSpot
GameSpot's 100 Games of the Millennium #24
End of year 1
2000 D.I.C.E. Awards
Game of the Year 1999 #2

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