In PlayOnMac click the install button and search for Steam. You need to install the windows variant of Steam to enable you to download the Windows version of Age of Empires. Step Three - Install Steam through PlayOnMac Open up PlayOnMac and jump through it’s set up process. Otherwise, head over to and download the dmg and copy it across to your applications folder.

If you have homebrew installed that’s as simple as brew install playonmac From there you’ll be able to purchase AoE, but not install it. I already had AoE HD edition purchased, if you already purchased AoE2, jump straight to step 2.Ĭreate a Steam account, and install Steam on MacOS. These steps are modified from this gist which went out of date with Catalina.

My setup is a 2017 Macbook Pro running Big Sur, playing Age of Empires 2 HD (not the newer definitive edition)… This will almost certainly not work with the new Apple hardware on Apple Silicon. As with all technical blog posts as the technology gets updated things will break - this post will probably become out of date very quickly.

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