Age Of Empires Online -- Celeste Fan Project

Greetings, fellow Celeste players!

As you might have noticed, this year we were way less active than usual here at the Celeste project, and this has multiple reasons. I want to take the opportunity to shed some light into the darkness: What happened, what the current status is, and how the future looks like.

So, let's start with myself. Back in 2025, I suffered a severe burnout. While most of you probably haven’t noticed, as PF2K managed to uphold the rest of the team for content. For that time, I want to thank PF2K, martinmine and Elle for managing organisational, technical and financial stuff. I also learned a lot about myself, and in a process of 6 months I managed to get back on my feet. Likewise, I also had to accept that a full-time job involving purely programming just doesn’t work with then doing somewhat the same things in your free time, that would be, again, programming. This is where I had to reduce my involvement with this project to a minimum...

Hello there Celeste players! The Winter Event is finally upon us!

In just a few hours, you can log into the game and enjoy the exclusive content. The event will go live at 2025/12/29 00:01 UTC

To access the event, go to your Empire Store in your Capital City and find all the new quests for the event. Alternatively, you can access the Event content by going to Sparta. More detailed instructions below.

This year, we are also adding the Defense of Crete mode into this event's special rewards system. See more details below!

You can find every detail regarding what's new in the event in the attached graphics! We hope that you all have lots of fun playing with friends during the event.

Hello there Celeste players! The Halloween Event is finally upon us!. (Well, ALMOST!)

Once the Event starts (00:01 UTC 2025/10/20), go to your Empire Store in your Capital City and find all the exclusive quests for the event.

You can find every detail regarding what's new in the event in the attached graphics! We hope that you all have lots of fun playing with friends during the event.

Hey there everyone! The newest changes and adjustments to Advisors are now available!

Below you will find the details for each of the changes. Dedicated graphics for each of the changed Advisors will be added to this blog as soon as possible.

Important to note that the following balance changes have also gone live with these changes:

Balance Changes:

• Egyptian War Elephant: Movement Speed reduced to 8, from 9.
• Elephant Archer: Projectile Track Rating increased to 16, from 15. Snare increased to 0.75, from 1.0. Max Spread Reduced to 1.25, from 2.0. Spread Factor reduced to 0.02, from 0.04. (meaning they are far more accurate now).
  • Affects both Egyptian and Indian Elephant Archers.
• Persian Cataphract: DPS increased to 25, from 20.
• Roman Decurion: DPS increased to 28, from 24...

Hello there Celeste players! Here you can find the details of the upcoming Summer Event for this year, going live on July 21st, 00:01 UTC!

Just like last year, you will receive...

Hello there Celeste players!

Here is the detailed overview for the content of our latest Content Pack, Battle for Kalinga! This is by far the largest content update we've had since the Indians' launch last October, and we're very excited for you to try it out!


This content pack follows Ashoka during his famous conquest of Kalinga, and is set in our all-new Indian-themed environments. Beautiful battlefields, dangerous armies and fearsome Juggernauts await you in this content pack! The quests in this content pack have been carefully handcrafted to have all new and fun gameplay experiences for you.


In addition to a Questline Completion Reward Gear, we have added several new Legendary items into the Legendary Gear...

Hello there Celeste players! We are back once again with another Developer Blog! It's hard to believe that it's been so long since the last update, but we are back now and we're working hard to bring you as much new content as we can.

We'll start off this blog with a recap of the highlights of what's been added to the game since the last development update, and then we'll discuss what's ahead in the near and far future of Age of Empires Online.

See the details below:

In October 2024, we released the 8th civilization in Age of Empires Online, the Indian Civilization. The feedback...

Hello Everyone! We are pleased to announce that we are on track to be releasing an awful lot of new content in 2019. We hope to see a few new things within a week, and before we make any announcements, we think it is a good time to provide a summary of everything we have added to Age of Empires Online since Project Celeste began.

The most popular expansions have been our four new Quest Packs that include both regular and Legendary difficulties. Though the original Developers continued to add new Quests over time, players understandably are always looking for new ones to do:

• The Athens Quest Pack:
  • Fight battles on Athenian battlegrounds, freeing Athenian cities one-by-one
  • New Legendary Gear
  • More than 10 new Quests, available for solo and co-op play.

• The...

Hello there Celeste players!

As promised, we are bringing you a quick sneak peek at our upcoming content pack, Battle for Kalinga!

This content pack follows Ashoka during his famous conquest of Kalinga, and is set in our all-new Indian-themed environments. Beautiful battlefields, dangerous armies and fearsome Juggernauts await you in this content pack! The quests in this content pack have been carefully handcrafted to have all new and fun gameplay experiences for you.

In addition to a Questline Completion Reward Gear, we will be adding several new Legendary items into the Legendary Gear Loot Tables. These will, for the most part, be Legendary upgrades of several popular Epic items, and more details about their names and exact stats will be released later.

See more details below!

Hello there Celeste players! The Winter Event is finally upon us!

In just a few hours, you can log into the game and enjoy the exclusive content. The event will go live at 2024/12/23 00:01 UTC

To access the event, go to your Empire Store in your Capital City and find all the new quests for the event. Alternatively, you can access the Event content by going to Sparta. More detailed instructions below.

You can find every detail regarding what's new in the event in the attached graphics! We hope that you all have lots of fun playing with friends during the event.

This year, we are once again bringing you guys a complete set of 35...

Hello there Celeste players! The Halloween Event is finally upon us!. (Well, ALMOST!)

Once the Event starts (00:01 UTC 2024/11/18), go to your Empire Store in your Capital City and find all the exclusive quests for the event.

You can find every detail regarding what's new in the event in the attached graphics! We hope that you all have lots of fun playing with friends during the event.

Hello everyone!

It's time. After what feels like an eternity, we are finally ready to announce that the Indian civilization now has a planned release date!

The Indians will be released on the 26th of October, 2024 (assuming everything goes to plan, of course). There are, however, a few things happening before and after their release that are explained below:
Stage 1: Closed Beta Playtest (Sep. 29 - Oct. 12):

• During this stage, we will be inviting a limited number of people to playtest the Indians and provide feedback and report any potential bugs. To keep it fair for everyone, these players' progress will be fully reset when the playtest phase is over.
• You can sign up for the closed playtest group here, but please be aware that we have very limited spots available for...

Hello there Celeste players! Here you can find the details of the upcoming Summer Event for this year, going live on July 22th, 00:01 UTC!

Hello there Celeste players!

Some of you were waiting for it, this is the Capital City Decoration Contest #2 !

After Crassus for the first contest, Bahram will be the main sponsor of this second edition and will offer some wonderful prizes.

As you can see in the attached graphic, we will be accepting entries until 2024/07/04, after which the best submissions will be selected for the community to vote here on the forums.

When the final winners are determined, we will be sending you your prize directly in your in-game mail. The first and second winners will be contacted here on the forums first so they can select their gear prizes.


To enter the contest, simply take up to three screenshots of your favorite capital city and post them here in this thread. (or if you can't post them directly...

Hello there Celeste players! After many long months of development fraught with delays (both foreseen and unforeseen), we are pleased to be closer than ever to finally throwing open the gates of Pataliputra and welcoming you all to the Indians. It's been a while since we've had an Indians developer blog, but we are back now with one of the most packed blogs yet!

Though we have shown you every Indian Building, we have held back three of our favorite Indian units until we got closer to the finish line. We are very excited to finally reveal them today.

See below for more details:

Hello there Celeste players! We are back once again with another Developer Blog! It's hard to believe that it's been so long since the last update, but we've had our hands more than full in the past few weeks and are working hard to bring you as much new content as we can.

You have had several months to stock up on Legendary Materials, but without any particular use for them. Well, today that changes! We have a new set of Craftable Legendary Gear that require two different Legendary Materials to craft.

In order to obtain these items, you must first find their recipes, these items do not drop in chests directly and can only be obtained by crafting them after their recipes are acquired. After that you can add the recipe to your Crafting Schools and craft the items.

See the details below:

Hello there Celeste players!

Here are the details about the upcoming content pack, Conquest of Britannia!

Travel to the Roman city of Londinium, located in the all new region of Britannia, where for the first time ever, you will get to aid both sides of the ongoing war between the Celts and the Romans, and assist both Boudicca and Crassus!

As the last major piece of content before the release of the Indian civilization, this content pack includes:

• 10 New Legendary Quests (five Roman and five Celtic-themed)
  • These quests will also have Repeatable and Elite variants.
• 6 new Minigame Quests (three Roman and three Celtic-themed)
• New Global quests, offering...

Hello there Celeste players!

As promised, we are bringing you a quick sneak peek at our upcoming content pack, Conquest of Britannia!

Travel to the Roman city of Londinium, located in the all new region of Britannia, where for the first time ever, you will get to aid both sides of the ongoing war between the Celts and the Romans, and assist both Boudicca and Crassus!

As the last major piece of content before the release of the Indian civilization, this content pack includes:

• 10 New Legendary Quests (five Roman and five Celtic-themed)
  • These quests will also have Repeatable and Elite variants.
• 6 new Minigame Quests (three Roman and three Celtic-themed)
• New...

Hello there Celeste players! The Winter Event is finally upon us!

In just a few hours, you can log into the game and enjoy the exclusive content. The event will go live at 2023/12/18 00:01 UTC

To access the event, go to your Empire Store in your Capital City and find all the new quests for the event. Alternatively, you can access the Event content by going to Sparta. More detailed instructions below.

You can find every detail regarding what's new in the event in the attached graphics! We hope that you all have lots of fun playing with friends during the event.

This year, we are once again bringing you guys a complete set of 35 login gifts for the entire...

Hello there Celeste players! The Halloween Event is finally upon us!. (Well, ALMOST!)

Once the Event starts (00:01 UTC 2023/10/23), go to your Empire Store in your Capital City and find all the exclusive quests for the event.

You can find every detail regarding what's new in the event in the attached graphics! We hope that you all have lots of fun playing with friends during the event.