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Build an Ancient Egyptian city along the Nile, balancing housing, trade, farming, worship and monuments in missions or sandbox play.
Released 15 Feb 2023
Build Egyptian Monuments
Farm Nile Farmland
Trade With Neighboring Cities
The legendary city-builder returns! Lead the creation of one of the greatest civilizations the world has ever seen in this HD remake with modernized UI. Build monuments, manage your population and explore 4,000 years of history through over a hundred hours of gameplay.
Developed by Triskell Interactive · Published by Dotemu
You direct the growth of cities across Ancient Egypt, taking on the role of a ruler responsible for their prosperity. The campaign follows a sequence of missions with different objectives, resources and buildings available.
Plan neighborhoods and workplaces, provide residents with goods and services, and manage agriculture, health, education, culture and religion. Nile floods affect the fertile land, while trade with other cities supports the economy and helps meet changing needs.
Build temples and major monuments as your city develops, while responding to economic and political pressures, disease and threats from enemies. A sandbox mode offers open-ended city building, and a map editor lets you create maps.
Players who enjoy the game often praise its city-building loop: planning districts, balancing resources and watching a settlement grow into a thriving city. Nostalgia for the original is a recurring draw, and some players also appreciate the updated presentation, music and quality-of-life changes. Opinions are divided, especially among longtime fans.
Immerse yourself in the history of Ancient Egypt with 50 missions in Pharaoh™: A New Era, a remake of Pharaoh (and the expansion Cleopatra: Queen of the Nile), one of the best city builders from the golden age of Sierra Entertainment. Stone by stone, build your city and manage all aspects of its development to ensure it prospers and makes you a powerful and revered pharaoh.
Develop your city by cultivating the fertile lands along the banks of the Nile valley. Erect the iconic monuments of Ancient Egypt, including the pyramids, the Sphinx and the Lighthouse of Alexandria. Build temples and mausoleums to help manage all aspects of your city's health and culture as well as the predominant polytheistic religion of the time.
Ensure your city is prosperous enough to deal with economic or political crises, or even plundering by enemies. A pharaoh takes care of its people and does whatever it can to earn the favour of the gods.
Pharaoh™: A New Era celebrates 20 years since the release of the famous franchise with a complete remake, including more than 50 playable missions and over 100 hours of gameplay.
The "Campaign" mode teaches you the game basics while allowing you to experience a unique story in the heart of Ancient Egypt. Explore all aspects of life in a thriving city, build and manage all its fundamental elements to ensure it flourishes: the economy, internal and external trade, culture, health, agriculture, education, etc.
The journey back in time is really brought to life with this new version, which upgrades the gameplay mechanics to modern standards and completely redesigns the captivating soundtrack and gorgeous isometric 2D graphics.
Many indicators have also been added or improved: keep better track of the frequency or quality of the Nile's floods with the Nilometer, or don't lose sight of your population's mood with some unique new tools!
● A Classic Remade: Rediscover 4,000 years of History in HD in this remake of the cult city-builder Pharaoh and its expansion Cleopatra: Queen of the Nile.
● A Rich, Complex and Unique Experience: Trade and develop your economy with neighboring cities and make your civilization thrive while facing the elements with the flooding of the Nile, wars with your enemies, the furies of the Gods and the plagues of Egypt.
● A Fortune of Fun: Lead your people through a rich 50+ missions and 100+ hour campaign, or unwind and build the metropolis of your dreams in a Sandbox mode.
● Breathtaking Views: Marvel at the beauty of budding settlements and lively cities sprawling across the Egyptian sands, brought to life through fully reworked, intricate hand drawn art.
● A Fully Reorchestrated Soundtrack: Take in stirring recreations of the original soundtrack’s melodies, rearranged and performed with traditional oriental instruments.
● Hundreds of gameplay changes and improvements: a fully redesigned UI, new and redesigned mechanics like the Workers Tooltip, the Fixed Worker Ratio or the Global Labor Pool, the ability to quickly copy-paste buildings or to disable predators... And so much more!
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 47 |
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| Controller required | No |
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