GameRanger

There are numerous video games which are more fun when played with other people, but many of them are quite old and they have poor or no online multiplayer features at all. Fortunately, you can still find some good solutions out there if you wish to play Age of Empires with your friends. An excellent example is GameRanger. It enables you and your friends to play a wide range of games over the Internet. Also, the application comes with built-in voice messaging, leader boards and other interesting features.

GameRanger is distributed as a freeware application and it works on all popular Windows platforms. The setup process is a bit lengthy, but it doesn't involve any complex configurations and the installation process itself takes only a few seconds to complete. There are no special requirements you have to meet and you don't need powerful hardware to run the software.

Hosted games are displayed in a list, on the main user interface, along with various details, like the name of the game and the host, ping, number of players and others. If you have a game installed on your computer and you see it in a list, you only need to select that entry and click a "Join" button. Alternatively, you can start hosting yourself.

GameRanger supports a vast range of video games, which are excellent for multiplayer. If you decide to be a host, you can select the game in a list, after which you have to target its executable. Additionally, you can make all sorts of configurations, to make the chat window look in a certain way, to enable text or voice chat and much more. What's more, the software places a series of privacy features at your disposal, for making a session private, blocking users or enabling language filters.

If you wish to play old-school games with your friends, like in the old days, GameRanger will help you make all the necessary preparations without any kind of difficulties.