Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition

I only play the single player mode. Overall rating: 4/10 (unsatisfactory) This is a strategy game with very little strategy. It is a real-time click-fest. It boils down to producing as many resources as possible as quickly as possible, then use the resources to produce troops and send them to battle. The “strategy” is how fast you can produce expendable troops that are replaceable just as quickly as they die! It is not possible for a small army to defeat a large army. The player spawns units non-stop. The enemy also spawns units non-stop. They kill each other in vast numbers in double quick time. No problem, just produce more canon-fodder units. The loop starts again. The game consists of: • Step 1: 50% resource gathering • Step 2: 20% city building • Step 3: 20% troop production • Step 4: 10% fighting • Back to step 1. Missing features: • No morale. • No logistics. • No unit formations (real formations). • No battlefield tactics (troops are funnelled in a pre-determined “corridors”). • No pause! I will keep playing Hegemony 3.