But some of us aren't that patient, so Age of Empires introduces gold a currency that can be spent to speed up the clock. Since the game was made for mobile, the idea is that a player should check once in a while through out the day and start new projects building or manage their slowly accumulating resources. That is, making anything will cost an amount of in game resources (wood, food and stone in Age of Empires) as well as minutes and hours worth of real world time. Game play models a real time building game model.

It's a classic cash grab preying on long time fans of the series hoping for more to come. Age of Empires Castle Siege, however, is not a free to play made correctly. In the past it meant 'terrible game' but in recent years the payment model has gained the trust of fans for producing great games that you don't necessarily have to throw money at in order to succeed.

The next iteration in the popular Age of Empires franchise as a free to play, but not the best.įree to play means a lot of different things to a lot of different people.