Overview
Age of Empires IV is a real-time strategy game developed by Relic Entertainment and published by Xbox Game Studios, released in 2021 on PC. As in the previous Age of Empires games, you pick a historical civilisation, gather resources (food, wood, gold and stone), build up your town and your army, and advance your civilisation from one age to the next to unlock new units and new buildings.
Gameplay
The game feels complete: there are a lot of civilisations to try (some of them as DLC), each with its own units and quirks. The game also offers historical campaigns (the "Campaign" mode), which I have not played yet.
Being a newcomer to the genre, I mostly play it with my friends in multiplayer, so I cannot talk about this game like an enthusiast would. But it really is intuitive, pleasant and fun, with a good learning curve: you keep discovering new mechanics, new optimisations and so on.
I have not run into any bug or crash in multiplayer yet.
Verdict
Intuitive, pleasant, fun, with a good learning curve, and no bug or crash in multiplayer so far: I recommend this game.