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Lead a Bronze Age faction from the Aegean to Mesopotamia, managing dynasties and resources before fighting tactical battles.
Released 25 Jul 2024
Build a Family Dynasty
Trade Food and Bronze
Scheme for Royal Titles
Wage total war across the ancient world from the Aegean to Mesopotamia in this free addition to Total War: PHARAOH. Challenge the Bronze Age Collapse by building your own dynasty and leading your faction to victory with new cultures, new units and dramatic new battle mechanics.
Developed by CREATIVE ASSEMBLY · Published by SEGA
Choose a faction and guide it through a sandbox campaign set during the Bronze Age Collapse. The expanded map spans the Aegean, Mesopotamia, and Egypt, with factions including Babylon, Mycenae, Troy, and the Assyrians of Hanigalbat.
Expand your territory while managing settlements, armies, and supplies such as food, bronze, wood, and stone. Trade and diplomacy can help fill shortages, while outposts support movement and provide local benefits. Court politics, religious worship, faction legacies, and a family dynasty add further campaign systems.
Lead armies in real-time battles where unit matchups, formations, terrain, and changing weather shape the fight. The lethality modifier makes charges and missile volleys more decisive. Across campaigns, succession, marriages, battlefield deaths, and aging affect who carries on your dynasty.
In the supplied reviews, players who enjoy the game often praise its broad Bronze Age setting, expanded map and faction selection, and the added strategic choices from trading, diplomacy, and dynasty systems. Tactical battles and the setting’s visuals also draw positive comments. Criticism commonly focuses on AI armies that reviewers feel outpace the player’s economy, the amount of campaign micromanagement, and campaigns that can become repetitive or slow; some also report performance problems or battle-control frustrations.
| Platforms | Windows, macOS |
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| Achievements | 105 |
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| Players | 1–2 |
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| Multiplayer | The provided info confirms single-player and online PvP, with cross-platform multiplayer support. Reviews also indicate a co-op campaign mode with a 2-player limit. Multiplayer appears to include competitive battles and online co-op campaign play, but reviews mention desync issues and no simultaneous turns in co-op. |
| Multiplayer & mods | One review states that mods can change mechanics, but the provided info does not confirm how mods interact with multiplayer specifically. |
| Controller required | No |
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| Website | Official website |
