Age of Empires

Age of Empires (PC, 1997) has an open-source reimplementation, ChariotEngine/Chariot, and 3 other public projects. An agent environment already wraps it.

Data checked 2026-10-12 · unbaked registry

Projects

Chariot

ReimplementationRust431 starspushed 2018-04-17custom license

A cross-platform open-source reimplementation of the Age of Empires (1997) engine

Halted Rust reimplementation

aoe

ReimplementationC++131 starspushed 2026-09-22Apache-2.0 license

Re-implementation of Age of Empires and the Rise of Rome expansion

Re-implementation of AoE + Rise of Rome (active 2026, unplayable/partial)

VideoGameBench (dev set)covers 20 games

Agent environmentJS-DOS (browser) via Playwright375 starspushed 2025-05-30custom license

Benchmark environment for evaluating vision-language models (VLMs) on popular video games!

Included in VideoGameBench dev split (2025)

EMPIRES.EXE decomp

RE candidate

CANDIDATE: no matching decomp yet; Genie engine thoroughly documented (genieutils), openage/aoe reimplementations exist

What you need

You need your own copy of the game: these projects ship code only.

Agent environments

alexzhang13/videogamebench

More on PC

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Found via sandsmark/genieutils

GitHub data checked 2026-10-12. Notes are summaries from the research pass; the project pages are the authority.