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Age of Empires, Definitive Edition and Return of Rome Cheat Codes
This is a list of all the known cheat codes for Age of Empires. Remember, not all codes work in all versions of the game.
All cheat codes are entered via the Chat text box. Press Enter on the keyboard, type the cheat code in, and press enter to activate the cheat. Some cheats are not immediately obvious, such as if you kill player 3 and haven’t made contact with player 3 yet. For those cheats that give you a unit, such as Photon Man, the unit appears at one your Town Center in most cases. In Return of Rome, not all cheats work but the majority do.
Cheat |
Description |
| Reveal Map | Reveals the entire map |
| No Fog | Removes the Fog of war |
| Pepperoni Pizza | Give yourself 1000 food |
| Coinage | Give yourself 1000 gold |
| Woodstock | Give yourself 1000 wood |
| Quarry | Give yourself 1000 stone |
| Steroids | Allow instantaneous 100% progress on upgrades, buildings, units, and villager functions. This grants the same to all the other players as well. If you enter it a second time it will switch it off. |
| Diediedie | Everyone dies (instant victory) |
| Resign | You resign |
| Hari Kari | Suicide |
| Home Run | Wins Scenario |
| Killx | Kills player x where x is the player’s starting position. For example, to eliminate player 2, enter Kill2. |
| Gaia | The planet player – gives you control over nature (note: You lose control of your own civilization for the rest of the game.) |
| Big Bertha | Heavy Catapults have greater range and damage. James pointed out that if you apply the cheat at a time when you are only capable of making stone throwers, this cheat will advance it to catapults. |
| ICBM | Ballistas get 100 range points |
| Hoyohoyo | Priests gets lots of speed and 600 hit points (Zen: it seems that if you enable this cheat it at the beginning of the game, then upgrade the priest later it’s possible to have a super priest with 1200 hit points with certain civs.) |
| Medusa | Transforms villagers to Medusas. Attack with a villager, and when the villager is killed, it will turn into a “Black Rider.” When the “Black Rider” is killed, it will turn into a Heavy Catapult. |
| Black Rider | Transforms Horse Archer into a “Black Rider.” (60 Hit Points and Attack of 8) When the “Black Rider” is killed, it will turn into a Heavy Catapult. THanks to Vincent Voyard for finding this out. |
| Dark Rain | Transforms Composite Bowmen into Stealth Bowmen – they look like trees while standing still. Thanks to Anthony Akens and Randall Spangler for pointing this one out. (mickey pointed out that the “Dark Rain” units can also walk on water; and BigWorm pointed out that the cheat upgrades your Bowman to Composite Bowman if you still have Bowmen.)
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| Photon Man |  Gives you Photon Man, a soldier with a laser blaster, able to kill elephants in one shot. |
| Flying Dutchman | Turns Juggernaughts into Flying Dutchmen |
| Bigdaddy | Cool car with a rocket launcher, 300 attack points, 500 hit points, and a range of 15. Very fast too. (Note from Cheyenne: Bigdaddy is awfully easy for enemy Priests to convert, and then they get Bigdaddy to wail on you…)
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| Jack be Nimble | Select a catapult and enter this cheat, the Catapult will then fire cows, super villagers with capes (and non pants!), or tumbling villagers, depending on orientation.
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| E=MC2 Trooper | Photon Man with Nuclear Weapons! Attack of 300 and an 88 Range.
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| Runplay | Seems to make units move faster, especially the horse units. Might not work with others… (Thanks Airman No Class!) |
| Upsidflintmobile | Accelerates your Chariot Archers (Thanks to Dark Knight for the post!) |
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Cheat |
Description |
| convert this! | Gives you a new, slow moving priest unit with thunder powers (Rayden!) (Thanks to Alex Ko) |
| stormbilly | Mechwarrior like robot (Thanks to Alex Ko) |
| big momma | Just like big daddy, but the car is white (Thanks to Alex Ko) |
| pow | Baby on a tricycle with a gun (Thanks to Alex Ko) |
| king arthur | Turns eagles into flying dragons with 999hp (Thanks to Alex Ko) |
| grantlinkspence | Turns animals into super animals (i.e. lion kings, alligator kings, gazelle kings, etc.) (Discovered by Zen while game was released) |
| upsidflintmobile | Makes your chariots super fast in both movement and rate of fire. (Thanks to Angel Washizu) |
Rise of Rome Expansion Pack Cheats
Late Alpha Hotkeys and Cheats
When playing In-game, you can use the following keys:
#0-8 – Switch perspective to defined CPU/Gaia player and control it
F3 – Pauses the game
F5 – Displays fps=1000 (frames per second),view=0,map=0,scr=0,upd=0,comm=0,oth=0,tot=0,avg view time=0,count=1014
F6 – Reveal Map
F7 – No Fog
F8 – Displays Optimal: Buf=9 Gran=58953030, RXPacket=0 and more (Most likely used for MP)
F9 – Player #1 is not a computer player (Only works for CPU players, adjusts speed?)
F11 – Displays Game time in the upper-right corner (below the Menu button)
CTRL+W – Adds 1000 Wood to your stockpile
CTRL+F – Adds 1000 Food to your stockpile
CTRL+G – Adds 1000 Gold to your stockpile
CTRL+S – Adds 1000 Stone to your stockpile
CTRL+I – Adds object count # (e.g. 643-Town Center) before the object name in the status screen
CTRL+E – Pauses the game
CTRL+B – Hide all ojects
CTRL+D – Hide all ojects, toggles an older drawing mode called SLOWDRAW in the commandline parameters
CTRL+A – Select all objects
CTRL+Q – Quicken (everything done instantly)
CTRL+P – Places a piece of rubble to show unit movement destination
CTRL+T – Opens up the In-game Scn Editor
CTRL+O – Changes selection of object/unit/building/hp bar to old hp bar or height selection
CTRL+V – Save screen, save current game as a scenario
CTRL+N – Quick start a new Random Game with the default settings
V – View Town Center
Late Beta Cheats
During a game, press ENTER to open the chat window, and type any of the following cheats. Press ENTER again to activate.
Cheat – Description
Wood – 1000 Wood
Food – 1000 Food
Gold – 1000 Gold
Stone – 1000 Stone
Givemenuke – Soldier_Nuker (Long aim)
Timsayscheat – Disables Cheats (write again to enable)
Quick – Everything get’s ready instantly
Player# – Replace # (1-8) Switch perspective to a CPU player and control it.
Gaia – Control GAIA, use this cheat to reveal the map
Suicide – You die instantly
Victory – You Win
Diediedie – Destroys all other players
Resign – Resign
Runplay – Unknown
Zeus – Used to enable/disable cheats (thanks to Sandy Petersen for clarifying this). Leftover in the final, and doesn’t do anything.
CGW Demo Cheat Code
VICTORY – Immediate victory.