Age of Mythology: Retold Standard Edition

Age of Mythology: Retold rebuilds the 2002 strategy game on a modern engine without rewriting what made it work. You pick a culture — Greek, Egyptian, Norse, Atlantean, and with the expansions Chinese and Japanese — and then a major god, which sets your starting bonuses and steers everything that follows. The loop is classic real-time strategy: gather food, wood, gold and favour, advance through ages, and put an army in the field. The difference is what is in that army. Minotaurs, cyclopes, frost giants and dragons fight alongside spearmen, and every age advancement lets you choose a minor god, unlocking a new myth unit and a god power. God powers are one-shot interventions — a meteor shower, an earthquake, a plague of serpents — and spending one at the right moment can decide a match. There is a fifty-mission campaign, skirmishes against the AI, ranked online multiplayer, a co-op mode called Arena of the Gods and a full map editor. The Standard Edition covers the base game — four original cultures, the full campaign, skirmish, multiplayer and the editor. The Chinese and Japanese expansions are not included.