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Age of History II

PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Android • 2018

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Quick resume

Age of History II is a grand strategy wargame that is simple to learn yet hard to master.Your objective is to use military tactics and cunning diplomacy to either unify the world, or conquer it.Will the world bleed out or bow before you? The choice is yours..

Global score

90/100

Genres

Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Simulator

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    Pros

    • Easy to learn and accessible
    • High customization and modding
    • Good value for price
    • Engaging strategic gameplay
    • Low system requirements

    Cons

    • Buggy and sometimes unstable
    • Limited multiplayer and cooperation
    • Repetitive late-game
    • Lack of narrative or story
    • Ai can be unpredictable or dumb

    Motivations

    • Autonomy

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    • Competence

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    • Competition

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    • Continuation

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      "Many players report long playtimes and habitual return to the game, though some find it repetitive and grindy."

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    • Cooperation

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      "Gameplay is largely single-player focused with limited social interaction; multiplayer exists but is minimal and mostly competitive rather than cooperative."

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    • Creativity

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    • Domination

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    • Escapism

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    • Expectation

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    • Experimenting

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    • Exploration

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    • Expression

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      "Customization of flags, nations, and maps allows for personal expression and identity creation."

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    • Fantasy

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    • Fellowship

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    • Growth

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    • Health

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      "Game is sedentary with no physical activity involved."

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    • Idle

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      "Requires focused attention and strategic planning rather than casual or background play."

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    • Intimacy

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      "Minimal social or emotional connection; interactions are mostly surface-level or absent."

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    • Leadership

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      "Players lead their own army and make strategic decisions, but no leadership over other players."

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    • Progression

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      "Players accumulate military power, territory, and economic resources to progress."

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    • Relaxation

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    • Sensation

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    • Status

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    • Story

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      "No narrative or story immersion; gameplay is context-free and focused on mechanics."

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    • Strategy

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      "Strong emphasis on mental challenge, planning, and problem solving in both strategic and tactical layers."

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    • Thrill

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    • Value

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    • Violence

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    • Survival

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    Analysis

    Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Story, Expression. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Leadership, Violence. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Story.

    How to use the graph
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    Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the same motivation profile as in the “Motivations” section below. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

    • Larger dot with a light outline: the game you are viewing.
    • Colour: groups of games with comparable motivation patterns (statistical clusters).
    • Hover a dot to see the game name; click to open its page.
    • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

    Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers.

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