There is an option of trying it with Game Pass via Microsoft store. Not really advisable for reasons mentioned at end of post, but suitable for testing it like once or twice for a price of 1-3€/$.
It's possible to get 5 months of Microsoft's Game Pass Ultimate for 3€/$. It is like a monthly subscription service thing to get access to a lot of games on MS store, and it includes Age2DE (and age1DE, among other games). Other maybe notable games are like Middle Earth: Shadow of War, Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Halo: Master Chief Collection, Halo Wars 1-2 (sorta RTS I guess), The Outer Worlds (rpg) etc, so if you want to try those as well, this could be a desirable choice.
Here are the steps to get full 5 months: (can ofc get either step 1 or 3, either Game Pass, if the sole reason is to test age2DE for like performance)
The First and only the FIRST Ultimate-purchase transfers all previous Live/gamepass time to Ultimate time on 1:1 ratio. If you try to use time-codes after having purchased Ultimate before, the ratio is considerably less (50-66%, like 90 day time of Live would become 50d of Ultimate). The two (gamepass(PC), Live) introduction-offers disappear if Ultimate is bought first. The recurring billing can be instantly cancelled at the MS acount settings page so you don't forget and pay the full price later down the road.
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NOTE:
Reason why Age2DE on Game Pass is inadvisable for longterm, is because it is practically broken if you have modified hotkeys. There is a bug since the release, which resets any created hotkey presets to defaults. Even if you name them/create new preset, the HKs themselves will never save between relaunches of the game, be it after normal relaunches or crashes, meaning you effectively cannot save hotkeys. This doesn't prevent you from testing the game by editing the HKs once and playing like one game to test how it feels.
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