Show HN: Age of Empires AI game reviewer

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Post by shim2k » Thu, Jul 24, 2025, 12:18 PM UTC

Hi HN!

I love playing AOE4, and so I decided to check whether LLMs can help me improve. Turned out it gave me great feedback on my game, so I made an app around this idea.

If you do not play it and can't check it on your own games, you can check out reviews from current users at https://aoe4.senteai.com/reviews

Show HN: Age of Empires AI game reviewer
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Re: Show HN: Age of Empires AI game reviewer

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Post by pythonlion » Thu, Jul 24, 2025, 12:27 PM UTC

Longtime AOE2 vet here. Finally tried AOE4 and was surprised how good it is. Gave this a spin, pretty neat seeing an AI break down my mess of a game. Curious how it handles civ-specific strats or greedy builds vs. pressure timings?

Re: Show HN: Age of Empires AI game reviewer

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Post by glosh4 » Thu, Jul 24, 2025, 12:32 PM UTC

Interesting application! Using AI to analyze RTS gameplay makes a lot of sense given the complexity of decision making in games like AOE4. How does it handle analyzing the economic vs military balance decisions that are so crucial in these games? Would love to see some example feedback it provides

Re: Show HN: Age of Empires AI game reviewer

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Post by shim2k » Thu, Jul 24, 2025, 12:37 PM UTC

pythonlion wrote: post #2

Longtime AOE2 vet here. Finally tried AOE4 and was surprised how good it is. Gave this a spin, pretty neat seeing an AI break down my mess of a game. Curious how it handles civ-specific strats or greedy builds vs. pressure timings?

The agent sees which civs are playing in the game that is being analyzed, and pulls season updates and builds from pros specific to those civs and it adds them to the prompt :)