Empires: Dawn of the Modern World

I haven't sat downto this gamein 20 years. It's still the same ballz to the walllz game. I'm old. This game is too! Awesome.

Good god GOG are doing gods work. This is my all time favourite RTS game and I can't believe I can play it flawlessly on Windows 11!! It cost me a few pounds and I just can't believe I am still playing this in 2025!! Also this isn't one of those weird paid for reviews (GOG genuinely don't do that to be honest) even though it looks like one, I genuinely love these guys <3

ive played it in the past and it worked fine now you start a game and it says no resources no matter what i stopped playing hoping you all would fix it but you didnt so i will never spend money with you all again, your a scam.

Nothing to do with the quality of the game itself but for some reason it doesn't start up on my PC. I asked for a refund in which I got a response asking for more info to see if they could troubleshoot, which I gave. Over a week later and no response. Then I said never mind just give me a refund then. Three days later, nothing.

The game has some interesting gimmicks for the different civilizations. I played as China for my first match and they have some movable buildings, which was kind of cool to play around with. Unfortunately, this feature is lost when advancing to WW1 which felt like a waste. Every unit, building and upgrade is resource intensive and gathering is SLOW! On a small map with many settlers and barely any military focus, advancing to WW2 took over an hour. Granaries have only so much room and the other resource nodes can have about 5-6 settlers on it before settlers start waiting for the others to complete their gathering run until they start their own. I initally put 8 settlers each on 3 gold nodes which led to a constant ping of 5 inactive settlers. Ranged combat feels clunky and the unique units with powers (in this case, Taoist monks that can heal and spawn volcanoes) took very long to build sufficient mana to use their powers. The special powers are interesting and feel sort of like the god powers from Age of Mythology. Zap a unit or building, spawn a meteor etc. Impactful to a certain degree. The issue is that these limited powers feel like a lesson in min/maxing impact (i.e. only use the lightning power on town centres) since your other units are less effective at damage to buildings. Now, I could just train war elephants etc. but that would mean less resources for other buildings and upgrades, and as aforementioned resource gathering is so slow that it wouldn't make such an investment worth the cost. Additionally, advancing to WW1 does not upgrade your existing imperial age units to equivalent units from this age, so you start "anew" after a considerable time investment. I find alternatives (Rise of Nations, Empire Earth 2, C&C etc.) more intuitive and smoother to play with fewer arbitrary constrictions on gathering speed and unit control and would honestly recommend opting for those instead of Empires: Dawn of the Modern World.