Age of Empires 2 cheats: complete list (PC) (2024)

HOW DO YOU TURN THIS ON

This cheat code spawns a "Cobra Car" at your Town Center. The Cobra Car is a powerful unit that can only be obtained via cheats. It has 500 HP, rapidly firing explosive ammo, but have a tendency for friendly fire.

  • Units

TO SMITHEREENS

This cheat spawns the "Saboteur" unit at your Town Center. The Saboteur is only available via this cheat code, and has the same looks as the Petard unit. Whilst it still has the Petard unit's explosive and self-destructive tendencies, it is more powerful, and has a blast radius 5x the size of Petard's.

  • Units

NATURAL WONDERS

NOTE: The effect of this cheat code can't be reversed, save your game before using it if you wish to switch back. This cheat will put you in control of the "Nature Civilization", which all animals, etc belong to - allowing you to control animals and other parts of nature. As this switches your civilization to nature, you are unable to switch back to your original civilization.

  • Utilities

I LOVE THE MONKEY HEAD

This cheat code spawns a "Villager Male Dave Lewis", or VMDL for short, unit at your Town Center. The VMDL unit is only obtainable via cheats, and moves extremely fast. VMDLs have no armor or attack bonus - their insanely fast movement speed makes them good for exploring, but not so much anything else.

  • Units

FURIOUS THE MONKEY BOY

This cheat spawns the cheat unit (only obtainable via cheats) "Furious the Money Boy". Furious the Monkey Boy is a powerful unit that looks like a monkey, having 99 armor (both melee and pierce) and a 999 attack bonus against Standard Buildings, making it great for destroying settlements.

  • DLC: The Conquerors
  • Units

I DON'T EXIST

This cheat spawns the "Penguin" unit. Unsurprisingly, the Penguin unit is only obtainable via this cheat code, and is a powerful unit that looks like a.. you guessed it: penguin.

  • DLC: HD Edition
  • Units

ALPACA SIMULATOR

This cheat code spawns the "Alfred the Alpaca" unit. Like the other units spawned by cheat codes, this can only be obtained via cheats and isn't available without them. Alfred the Alpaca is a very strong unit that headbutts enemies - it also has 100 attack bonus for Standard Buildings, and Stone Defenses.

  • DLC: HD Edition
  • Units

CHEESE STEAK JIMMY'S

This cheat code gives you 1,000 more of the food resource. In AOE 2 HD Edition, it provides 10x more (10,000 food).

  • Resources

LUMBERJACK

This cheat code gives you 1,000 more of the wood resource. In AOE 2 HD Edition, it provides 10x more (10,000 wood).

  • Resources

ROBIN HOOD

This cheat code gives you 1,000 more of the gold resource. In AOE 2 HD Edition, it provides 10x more (10,000 gold).

  • Resources

ROCK ON

This cheat code gives you 1,000 more of the stone resource. In AOE 2 HD Edition, it provides 10x more (10,000 stone).

  • Resources

MARCO

This cheat will show the entire map (all black areas will become visible/discovered). Using it again will toggle its effects off, returning your map back to the way it was before.

  • Utilities

POLO

This cheat will disable Fog of War (FoW). Typing it again will re-enable Fog of War.

  • Utilities

AEGIS

When you have this cheat enabled, building, gathering, training, and researching is instant. This is a toggle cheat - typing it once will turn it on, typing it again will turn it off. Two important notes: units that are involved in constructing a building when you enable this cheat will die, and this cheat also affects the AI/other players (and they generally are better at utilizing this than a puny human like you, so it's best to use this for a short period of time).

  • Utilities

I R WINNER

This cheat makes you instantly win your current game.

  • Utilities

RESIGN

This cheat makes you instantly lose your current game.

  • Utilities

BLACK DEATH

This cheat code kills everyone, you and your allies included.

  • Utilities

WIMPYWIMPYWIMPY

This cheat makes you commit suicide, causing you to lose the game.

  • Utilities

TORPEDO[#]

This cheat will kill/eliminate a specified opponent. Replace # with the numer of the player/AI you wish to eliminate. TORPEDO2 would kill the player with starting position 2.

  • Utilities

WOOF WOOF

This cheat replaces all birds with the "Stormy Dog" unit. The Stormy Dog unit is almost the exact same as regular birds, with one subtle difference - it's a flying dog!

  • Units

!MUTE

This cheat disables taunts.

  • Utilities

!NOMUTE

This cheat enables taunts.

  • Utilities

NINJACONNOR

This cheat gives you 100,000 of the following resources: food, wood, stone, and gold.

  • DLC: The Forgotten
  • Resources
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