I give up

Usually I'm very thorough when it comes to piracy in general, but installing software just became the bane of my existence.

Lets start the story:

I'm an HUGE fan of Age of Mythology, still have the original game.

I decided to pirate the Retold version since I don't have much money at hand.

I decided to torrent it,the first time it was from tenoke,then fitgirl.

I installed the game,all files were fine,run the application that verifies all files said it was fine.

Runned the game as administrator,and then...

Nothing happened

Searching this sub and the internet it seems I need an...emulator to mimic steam???

Because I really don't dig forums because they are too convoluted and youtube is mostly purged on content about piracy, I would really apreciate this:

I need a guide what the hell to do after the game it's installed, what to copy,what to replace,what application to execute etc.

My pc is an potato with 8gb of ram ,500 GB storage and runs Radeon 570 graphic card,usually I don't believe it's the pc fault,all c++ was updated.

Edit:After another attempt I just gave up,im going to upgrade my pc anyway.I did absolutely everything, including trying another repack,disabling the Microsoft defender,closing all apps etc.