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0ad is an open source RTS engine and game with it's own units, gameplay and map making that are similar to AoE, but it is not a clone of AoE. https://play0ad.com

Isn't 0ad a whole different game?

The real core to 0AD is the open source game engine Pyrogenesis, https://github.com/0ad/0ad/tree/master/binaries/system if you know some Python/Blender - https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/The_Pyrogenesis_Engine/Introdu...

In literally every possible way.

Here are ways in which they're not different:

* Both use C++

* Both multi-platform

* Both open source

0ad is similar to Age of Empires, this project is aiming to be as exact of a replica as possible :)