Age of Empires: Definitive Edition Cheat Codes: Full List

7 April 2020

Age of Empires: Definitive Edition kept the cheats from the original 1997 game as they were. The codes from The Rise of Rome expansion work too. We've collected all of them below with what they do.

How do you enter cheats?

During a match, press Enter, type the code into the box that opens and press Enter again. Capitalization doesn't matter. If you want to enter the same code over and over, type it once and copy it with Ctrl+C; after that, Ctrl+V and Enter is all you need each time.

A few rules:

Cheat units appear next to your Town Center. If you have more than one, next to the one you built most recently. If you have no Town Center the unit won't appear, and it won't appear either if the Town Center is advancing to the next age at that moment.
Codes that transform units don't affect units you've converted from the enemy. For the strongest result, enter the code before researching the technologies that upgrade that unit.
Unlike the Definitive Editions of AoE II and AoE III, using cheats here doesn't block achievements.

Resource cheats

Code	What it does
PEPPERONI PIZZA	Gives 1,000 food.
WOODSTOCK	Gives 1,000 wood.
COINAGE	Gives 1,000 gold.
QUARRY	Gives 1,000 stone.

Cheat units

Code	What it does
BIGDADDY	Spawns a car called Winsett's Z. Its rocket launcher deals a total of 600 damage to every unit it hits, every two seconds.
BIG MOMMA	Spawns a second car, Winsett's other Z. Its rockets only deal 120 damage in total but fire five times as fast.
E=MC2 TROOPER	Spawns the Nuke Trooper: a futuristic soldier carrying a nuclear launcher with a range of 88.
PHOTON MAN	Spawns the Laser Trooper: a futuristic soldier with a fast-firing laser gun.
STORMBILLY	Spawns a robot called Zug 209. Its laser guns fire every half second.
CONVERT THIS!	Spawns Saint Francis: a priest who calls down lightning every three seconds. Technologies and civilization bonuses that improve priests make him stronger too.
POW	Spawns BabyPrez: a baby on a tricycle with a shotgun that fires every half second.

Unit transformation cheats

Code	What it does
BIG BERTHA	Turns your stone throwers and catapults into Big Berthas: tougher, longer-ranged and with a much wider blast area.
BLACK RIDER	Turns your horse archers into Black Riders. When killed, they come back as catapults.
MEDUSA	Turns your villagers into Medusas. When killed, they come back as Black Riders.
DARK RAIN	Turns your foot archers into Stealth Archers: they become trees when standing still and can walk on water. Archer technologies you've already researched don't apply to these units.
FLYING DUTCHMAN	Turns your Catapult Triremes and Juggernauts into Flying Dutchmen that can also travel on land.
UPSIDFLINTMOBILE	Your chariot archers become very fast and fire three times as quickly.
HOYOHOYO	Your priests become very fast and gain 600 hit points. If you research the right technologies at the temple after this code, the values double.
ICBM	Raises the range of Ballistas and Helepolises to 100. Their line of sight doesn't increase, so they can't hit distant moving targets, but they can hit explored buildings under the fog. Handy as a last resort for knocking down an enemy Wonder.
JACK BE NIMBLE	Your stone-throwing siege weapons launch cows and villagers instead of stones.
KING ARTHUR	Turns birds into dragons.
GRANTLINKSPENCE	Turns huntable animals into stronger "Alpha" variants.

Map and speed cheats

Code	What it does
REVEAL MAP	Reveals the whole map.
NO FOG	Removes the fog of war.
STEROIDS	Construction, research, gathering and unit production finish instantly, and animals die in one hit. Applies to all players; type it again to turn it off.
GAIA	You control the animals on the map but lose control of your own civilization. If you didn't save before entering the code, there's no way back.

Cheats that end the game

Code	What it does
HOME RUN	You win the game instantly.
DIEDIEDIE	All enemy units and buildings are destroyed and you win. It doesn't give you the win in some scenarios with non-military objectives, and it doesn't work in multiplayer.
KILL2 … KILL8	Destroys the player whose number you type, for example KILL3 for player 3. KILL1 does nothing, and typing a number that isn't in the game can crash it.
RESIGN	You lose the game no matter how well you're doing.
HARI KARI	Destroys all your units and buildings and you lose. If you have a Medusa or a Black Rider, the game doesn't end. Typing it many times in a row can crash the game.

Return of Rome is a different story

The Return of Rome mode inside Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition also plays AoE I, but because it runs on the AoE II engine the cheats change. The resource codes give 10,000 there instead of 1,000, and AoE II's resource codes (like robin hood and rock on) work too. AoE II's unit-spawning codes, however, are disabled in Return of Rome. POW and JACK BE NIMBLE aren't in Return of Rome either.

For all of AoE II's codes, see our Age of Empires 2 cheat codes page; for the other games, see Age of Empires 4 cheat codes and Age of Empires cheat codes.

Source: https://ageofempires.fandom.com/wiki/Cheat_code_(Age_of_Empires)