u/DarkSideOfDay

Hi everyone, my name is Myll and I wanted to show off a spectator overlay tool that I recently made for Retold. It is inspired by the CaptureAge tool that the AoE2 community uses! The tool was made entirely with Claude Fable and Claude Opus 5 AIs.

The overlay

• Live top bar over the game (or in a replay) with both players' stats, read directly from the running game — no cheats, observer/replay only
• Resources with per-resource gatherer counts, switchable between current stockpiles and totals gathered this match
• Villager count (idle workers highlighted red), special workers counted for dual-labor civs (dwarves, Kuafu, hero citizens), fishing ships, population
• Army value and eco value pills — the cost of everything alive, military and workforce, priced from the game's own unit data
• Kills, villagers killed (raid tracker), standing town centers, captured relics with per-relic tooltips
• Army composition strip per player: every unit they own, live, with the game's own icons and tooltips
• Upgrade panels per player: armory (weapons/armor/shields/ballistics) and economy (gold/wood/farm) tiers, shown with the game's own tech icons, including research-in-progress
• Player names, gods, and colors read live from the match; ELO and winrate resolved automatically from aomstats, with Steam avatars

Live charts

• Toggleable chart panel: army value, eco value, income (res/min), villager count, kills, and villager kills over game time
• Age-up markers on every chart using the game's age icons
• Runs on the game clock, so curves are identical at 1× or 8× replay speed, and it works in paused replays

Casting quality-of-life

• Tournament logo and best-of series score in the center block
• On-screen hover controls for the caster that never appear on stream
• Overlay is click-through, snaps to the game window, and scales
• Survives momentary read hiccups without flickering

Clean-spectator mod (bundled, one-click install)

• Hides the game's bulky spectator panel so the overlay takes its place
• Keeps and repositions what the game does better: god powers, build queue, scoreboard + clock, and a vertical menu bar tucked in the corner
• Installed and updated from inside the app into mods\local — never touches game files

How to Download and Install OBELISK:

See comments section for details!

Hope everyone enjoys it! Let me know if there's any questions!