Comments on: Age of Empires

By: Ty

Ty — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 15:25:59 +0000

This page needs to be taken down or the link to the original game needs to be restored.

The Definitive Edition is NOT a rerelease of the original version of AoE 1. It is a rerelease of AoE1: Rise of Rome with implemented changes from the Unofficial HD mod.

AoE1 and AoE1: Rise of Rome are very different from each other and it is important to maintain the original versions legacy rather than just Rise of Rome.

By: s

Fri, 30 Jan 2026 11:01:32 +0000

where is the game? wtf is the purpose of this website

By: labra

labra — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 14:25:20 +0000

madarchod sab sal fake he

By: z0dd

z0dd — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 14:56:38 +0000

In reply to Kichu. yea

By: Videogamer555

Videogamer555 — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 05:29:07 +0000

In reply to LEONARDO.

Likely the problem is that as far as the game company is concerned, the remakes similar are enough to the original (only a few musics are changed, and it’s optimized to work with modern PCs) that any abandonware downloads of the actual original version will be viewed as acts of piracy. Technically they aren’t wrong, even if the remakes didn’t exist (the copyright law doesn’t actually say that it’s legal to download old software, it’s just that most companies won’t prosecute it, but that equation changes if they have remakes that are now available). ROM sites (even for old systems like the SNES) have been sued into shutting down by big companies (like Nintendo) so it’s likely that in order to avoid that same fate, oldgamesdownload.com has decided to NOT keep the download links for the old versions. After all, it seems that the makers of Age Of Empires haven’t abandoned the entire franchise, if they are now making remakes of the older games.

Your best bet to finding the actual old games is to do a google search with the name of the game and also the URL “archive.org” in the search text.

By: Kichu

Kichu — Sat, 16 Mar 2024 06:01:01 +0000

we want the orginal link, not the remake

By: thegreenpan

thegreenpan — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 19:30:30 +0000

this is silly, I came here to get the origonal versions of games, that I used to play and are now being sold as remakes on steam (games I have bought, and played) and I find I am unable to access the origonal game’s.
A remake is a remake, perhaps done by a diffrent publisher or developer, maybe eaven by an entierly diffrent company.
Considering many of the remakes on steam are sold as remakes for the steam platform, it is logical to assume the probbibility of the developer or publisher or both that are doing the remake, being diffrent from the origonal developer or publisher, is quite high.
In any case the fact that these remakes change the game play, story line, graphics, charichter models and controal options, drasticaly changes them from the origonal to the point where they can not be defind as the origonal game.
Note how steam advertises Resident Evil 3 The Nemesis simply as Resient Evil 3.
It is because it is a diffrent game made to closley resemble the origonal game.

The same is true for
Age of the empires
Mafia
Mafia 2
Final Fantasy 7
and many more.
I have searched sevral old games i know to be remakes on steam, on this site to try and find the origonal copies.
Im sory butit seems like this website is doing a good job of promoting Steam rather than providing origonal retro games for download.

As the website says in the website address
old games download
well we want the old games not the remakes.

Please put the necissery download links to origonal game vershions of the remakes on steam back up on the website, or change the website address to
games search

By: 123134231

123134231 — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 19:45:12 +0000

In reply to LEONARDO. yeah, I own the remake version and it's not the same as the original game (even when the classic mode, which is only available for custom games, is turned on).

By: Helinux

Helinux — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 19:17:09 +0000

thank´s!

By: LEONARDO

LEONARDO — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 03:38:27 +0000

In reply to OldGamesDownload. OK but what about the people who want to play the classic original instead of the remake?

By: Dradon

Dradon — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 15:15:08 +0000

why is there the main menu of the Rise of Rome expansion on the original Age of Empires 1

By: OldGamesDownload

OldGamesDownload — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 11:20:57 +0000

In reply to Peyton. The purpose of the website is to provide downloads for games that have been abandoned by their developers or publishers. While the Age of Empires franchise was abandoned, we provided download links for the games. Now that they have been relaunched (which is a great thing!), we are redirecting users to where they can purchase the games.