An awesome list of resources for the Age of Empires II real-time strategy video-game.
You can contribute to this list by opening a pull request or an issue.
As an alternative / complement to this list, you might want to have a look at the AOE Library.
- Websites
- Programs
- Mods
- Smartphone apps
- Streaming tools
- Programming tools
- YouTube channels
- Twitch channels
- Similar games
- AoE2.net: leaderboard, player profiles and ELOs, recorded games from aoe2recs
- AoE2Insights: match analysis and player profiles
- AoE II Companion: track your games
- AoE2.GG: player profiles and ELOs
- AgeOfEmpires.com: player statistics
- AoE Nexus: player profiles and ELOs
- Smurf Database: possible smurfs for a given player (based on Steam family library sharing)
- MultiProfile: all of the above on a single page
- AoCRec: open aoe2 record database. Upload, download, parse, search aoe2 records. Generate game & player profiles, statistics and ELO rating based on uploaded records
- aoe2techtree.net: civilizations tech trees
- Simplified tech tree: tech tree relevant to 1v1 Arabia
- aoe-twools: tech tree per civ and civs per unit / tech (source code)
- AoE 2 Database: units, buildings, techs, civs database
- Halfon: unit, building and tech reference
- Age of Empires Unit Counters: units and their counters (source code)
- Counters matrix: units and their counters
- Civilization Tool: civilization strengths and weaknesses
- Captains Mode: draft players civs before a tournament
- Civpicker: tell what you want to play, get the civs
- Random Civilization Selector: pick a random civ in a predefined pool
- aoe2recs: recorded games
- Wololo rating distribution: 1v1 ELO distribution
- aoe2map
- Hotkey Editor: an hotkey editor, with some popular presets
- Villagers required: number of villagers required to sustain constant unit production
- Unit Production Calculator
- aoe2calc (note: does not support DE yet!)
- Age of Empires 2 Combat Simulator: units and their counters
- Interactive build orders: interactive build orders with timing as a webapp which is smartphone-friendly
- Sage of Empires: informations about civilizations and build orders to display while playing 1v1
- Random Rating Match Retriever: selecting a “random” game from the ongoing matches between two given rating values
- Civilization Builder: easy-to-use tool for creating custom civilizations for AoE2
- Tournament Elo: alternative ELO ranking based only on tournament games
- aoestats: civilization win rate statistics broken down by elo, map, game length, patch
- AOE2 Stats Dashboard: play rate, win rate per civ, per map…
- AoE Pulse: playrate of openings, civilization stats, tech timings…
- Rating charts: players / team ELO visulization within the overall ELO distribution
- Civilisation 1v1 Performance Statistics (source code)
- Age of Statistics: lots of statistics about online games
- AOE2 Civ Overlap: table of pairwise similarity between civilization, measured as ratio of common available or missing non-unique units and techs over all
- Civilization Matchups: a bayesian approach to 1v1 civ matchups
- AoE Companion: civilization statistics
- Build order guide: build orders and uptime calculator
- AoE2 Guide: build orders, a few civilizations overview
- AoE Companion: build guides, unit counters, civilization overviews
- Build Order Reference: Cicero's build orders
- AoE Builds: build orders and blog
- PerfectTime: perfect uptime calculator
- AoE2 on Linux: play this Microsoft game on a free operating system
- AoE2 on macOS: play this Microsoft game on an Apple operating system
- Random Map Scripting Guide: create your own random maps
- Fandom: everything about the game
- liquipedia: everything about the scene
- CaptureAge: spectating client with a custom overlay to display statistics not available in the game
- DE Replays Manager: manage Age of Empires 2 Definitive Edition replays
- Wololo Downgrader: downgrade AoE2 to be able to watch recorded games created with previous patches
- AoE2 DE Patcher: downgrade AoE2 to be able to watch recorded games created with previous patches
- SenseiDE: unleash the ultimate performance from Age of Empires 2 Definitive Edition
- Advanced Genie Editor: see (or edit) game information (this program is shipped with the game:
Tools_Builds\AdvancedGenieEditor3.exe)
- AoE 2 Database: units, buildings, techs, civs database on Android
- AoE II Companion: track your games on Android and iOS
- AoE Millionaire Quiz: strenghten your game knowledge and compete with other players across the world on Android
- AOE 2 Build Orders: practise build orders with stats to improve your early game and rank up quickly on Android
- AoE II Companion: API for Nightbot, to add
!rankand!matchcommands to your Twitch chat - AoE2 Rating Overlay: display current game players' name, MMR, winrate, etc. in an small OBS-friendly HTML page
- Age of Empires II DE - In Game Rating Overlay: display current players' name and MMR as plain text
- RTS Overlay: display build order and / or current game players' name, MMR, winrate, etc.
- mgz: Age of Empires II recorded game parsing and summarization in Python 3
- genie-rs: rust libraries for reading / writing various Age of Empires I/II files
- genieutils: C library for reading and writing the file formats used in the Genie engine
- AoE2 Scenario Parser: Python3 library to edit scenario files in Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition
- Spirit Of The Law: the maths of AoE2
- Empirant_AOE: more maths of AoE2
- T-West: even more maths and mechanics analysis
- Hjörleif: more game mechanics
- HumzaCrumza: non-meta build orders
- Poop Lord: non-meta build orders
- Hera: own games, “So you want to play $CIVILIZATION” series, “Ultimate guide to $ELO” series…
- T90: tournaments, “The legend of $PLAYER” series, “Low ELO legends” series…
- Bearly Learning: Age Of Empires Toons
- Parsa Animations: Age of Empires Logic…
- Kings & Plebeians: players, developers, content creators…
- Bored With Nelly: developers, players…
- Gonza Muñoz
- Alex Heflin (feat. insaneintherainmusic)
- Jon V Audio: original compositions using only game sounds
- 4Hardy: original compositions using only game sounds
- Armchair Saurus: historical reality behind AoE2 units, techs…
- Tiramis: history of the AoE2 community