Is the game worth just for the campaign?

[ASPIK]

Not planning to play multi and was wondering how is the campaign? length and quality?

[BeefyBearded]

Absolutely, the campaign in the OG is one of the longer RTS campaigns from its era, missions usually are well paced for the longer term and the quality is fantastic, being a longtime player of the OG game this one is honestly just a straight upgrade in every way.

[Maraxus]

100%

[MattGPT]

Probably the best single player campaign in the series

[Erinyes]

Having finished all of them as a teen and now again with Retold. If you go into this with having never played it you get a couple of dozens of hours from all campaigns total.

- one with 32 missions
- one with 12 missions
- one with 4 missions ( only a mini-one )
- one "Battle" mission for the new god Freyr

If you want a challenge but not super easy, I can recommend "Hard" to start off with. If you're not concerned about difficulty at all then "Moderate" will do just fine as a more relaxed playthrough.

That said, I enjoyed the campaign(s) immensely because it tells a good story ( which is rare in RTS games ) and has some good characters too with some laughs sprinkled in the dialog. The base game is 100% worthwhile just for the campaigns.

If you're unsure whether you want to continue playing, I definitely would recommend only buying the base game as it's cheaper than the "Premium Edition" as that one would contain 2 DLCs that are going to come out eventually.

If you like campaigns like the one in AoE 3 which also basically had a continuous story, then you will like this one too.

[Belgeroth]

Also the game is on XBOX game pass fyi, in case you have that

[Vudash]

100%

[Sipher]

the campain is THE best RTS campain and totally worth every cent!

[FohnJarmery]

The campaign is great!
It has a few flaws but those are mostly just flaws carried across from the original campaign that were kept mostly out of faithfulness to the original. There are a few issues where the campaign hasn't really been updated to reflect all the new mechanics in Retold - some stages are easy to break with reusable GPs and none of them take advantage of the new Minor God bonuses.

I'd say if you've already played the campaign then it's not worth buying Retold on just the campaign alone but if you've never tried the AoM campaign then it's absolutely worth it.

[ZagaL'A+]

Y

[Chef GrumpyBlitz]

spent two hrs alone on mission 30 because I tend to play defensively but it was damn fun the CPU kept trying to knock down the walls and I just build them and fortress cities right up to their main bases lol

[Rattlesnake8]

The campaigns will keep you entertained for quite a few hours. A lot of us have replayed through the campaigns multiple times now because they are so good. You also get skirmish to play with and against AI in single player. You can put a ridiculous amount of hours into skirmish mode.

[CptKerion]

It's a long campaign with a lot of story and some of the missions have replay value. It's really the star piece of the game.

[ASPIK]

Thank you guys, i think i will give it a try :)

[Skuzzy]

The base games campaign alone is worth it. It's a great, fun campaign. There's 30 something scenarios. Additionally, you'll get access to two other respectably long campaigns. The story is engaging, doesn't take itself too seriously but it's a fun ride.

If you're unfamiliar with how the Ages of games work a lot of the changes really help make it easy to bring new players into the mix by largely automating a lot of the decision making processes such as how many workers need to be tasked where for what priority as well. A first time, blind run will probably take you upwards of 30+ hours.

[Turbo Nozomix]

Music doesn't play after loading a saved game. The same issue exists in AoE 3 DE. This frustrates playing the game for the SP campaign greatly.