Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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Build a nation starting at any point in human history and compete for supremacy in this epic turn-based strategy game. Engage in diplomacy, fight wars, and go head-to-head with other leaders from history.

Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition is a strategy, 4x and grand strategy game developed by Oxide Games and published by Xbox Game Studios.
Released on September 24th 2024 is available only on Windows in 26 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Vietnamese and Malay.

It has received 1,790 reviews of which 1,231 were positive and 559 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.7 out of 10. 😐

The game is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam with a 60% discount.

The Steam community has classified Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition into these genres:

Strategy 4X Grand Strategy Alternate History Historical Singleplayer Resource Management Turn-Based Tactics Diplomacy Management Military Tutorial 3D Top-Down Multiplayer City Builder Turn-Based Strategy Turn-Based Villain Protagonist LGBTQ+

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS: Windows 10 (20H1) or later
  • Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 2400G – Intel i5-5300U
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 480 – Nvidia GeForce GTX 970
  • DirectX: Version 12
  • Storage: 50 GB available space

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68 hours played
Jan. 2026
I got ARA on release day and was immediately intrigued by the nice graphics and the interesting take on Civ-building. Then, I started playing... and it felt like wading through a thick swamp. In the initial versions I couldn't bring myself to playing more than a few dozen turns, as there was far too much micromanagement involved, complicated, unexplained systems and general slog. It felt like work, not fun. The looks were nice, but the gameplay was mediocre at best - which, sadly, seems to be par for the course as far as the release state of many similar games these days is concerned (Cough... Civ 7 anyone?). Frustrated once more, I was about to give up on ARA and hand in a negative review, but the developers seemed very committed to improving their game, so I held back. And I can say now that it was a good decision. With the interim updates - most importantly the most recent 2.0 one - the game has markedly improved in my view. The devs have been keenly listening to feedback and reworked / streamlined almost every aspect of the game. Economy, pacing, balance,... even the (already quite decent) graphics have been re-thought, overhauled and improved, with new content and gameplay systems (e.g., culture & influence) added for free. Having come back to ARA v2.0, I now find the game enjoyable at last and MUCH less of a chore, while still being a fresh perspective on empire-building. There are still a few rough edges remaining, and some areas need to be improved, most importantly the diplomacy, which is still far too opaque and feels generic. Also, some further optimization is needed - framerates are still too low even on high-end machines. But the devs are on a good path IMHO and I can just hope that they can keep up their pace... So, bottom line: ARA (v2.0) is a good game that has the potential to become truly great. Much more so than Civ 7 anyway. It's now worth the 40-50 bucks, even more so when obtained on a sale. I can now - finally - recommend ARA to any 4X fan.
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64 hours played
Dec. 2025
Severe one more turn syndrome for more than 60 hours. But the fun is gone. I am giving a positive rating as I think it would be unfair not to given that I have been playing this game like crazy over the past week or so. However, it does not seem like I will play this game for as many hours as Humankind, Civ 6 and Old Word. The problem may just be my expectations for this game. I thought the game would be a more laid back type of 4X game concentrating on economics and building triumphs (wonders) rather than warfare. But playing on the third highest difficulty (grand duke I think) it is obvious that if you want to win you have to kill, kill, kill and expand, expand, expand otherwise you will not have enough "prestige" which is basically the score in this game. What I like about Civ 6 and Endless Space 2 is that once you have a certain reasonable amount of cities/solar systems you can stop expanding and just have enough of a military to defend yourself, but you can stop killing everything in sight and just by building stuff you can win the game on the highest or second highest difficulty. In Ara, however, it really seems that without constant expansion you cannot get enough prestige on the higher levels. Now, that would not be so bad (humankind is the same) if the game had a decent combat system. But the combat is poor and that is where I think the devs made a mistake. If you create a 4X game that is heavy on the expansion X of the 4X formula then you need a decent (fun) combat system. Humankind had an alright system, but really, if you want to play an expansion style 4X game play Shadow Empire or Distant Worlds 2 or at least combat heavy games like AoW games. A game like this, which I thought was going to be a turn-based Anno sort of game, should not force you to expand this much. This causes another problem. At the beginning of the third Act I have 12 cities. It is too much. You have no connection to the cities. When I build a new improvement I am like "Oh great, my 254th tannery in my 34th city, how NOT exciting..." (obviously I am exaggerating the numbers but you get the idea). So yeah, I do not think this game brings much to the 4X genre and there are better 4X games out there. Nonetheless, if you are a big fan of 4X games and you have had enough of Civ 6, Humankind, etc. I guess you should give the game a try when it is on sale.
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31 hours played
Sept. 2025
The 2.0 update really made this game into what it should have been from the start. There's automation for your crafted goods now, it runs way smoother and the UI makes a lot more sense, the nations and leaders finally feel and play differently, and tons of other stuff. I can't say much about the new adaptive AI, but on normal it seemed to hold about my level of progress as intended. If the team can keep this level of quality for future updates, this game has a really bright future ahead. But even now it can be recommended to any fan of Civ-like 4X games.
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95 hours played
Sept. 2025
With the release of 2.0 I feel I can finally recommend this game. Ara comes with it's own take on the 4x "civ like" style of game, where the focus is on the production of the ever more complex resources that your civilisation needs. With the original 1.0 release the game suffered from a very bad case of micromanagement requirements, but that has been considerably improved for the 2.0 release. The AI is also doing much better now and will be a good challenge on the appropriate difficulty level. Combat is fairly simple in the game, more similar to something like EU4 than Civ, but honestly that works for me as the micro focus shifts to managing the economy and crafting of the various production chains. This game offers one of the most amazing descriptions of what the industrial age must've been like on a historic scale, as you find yourself suddenly being able to produce incredible goods that have huge impact on your people or your armies, that in turn need huge quantities of lesser goods that can only be produced in the needed quantities by standing up dozens of factories and rushing to acquire sources of coal to power everything and seeing the health of your cities plummet all the while. I hope to see more development on Ara, it does it's own thing and it's pretty good at it!
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240 hours played
Aug. 2025
The game has really become great with the updates. A automation for crafting, unique leaders and leader specific units, UI improvements. Really immersive. My go-to now after the failure of Civ7.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.

Yes, Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition is currently available at a 60% discount. You can purchase it for 19.99€ on Steam.

Yes, Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition received 1,231 positive votes out of a total of 1,790 achieving a rating of 6.68.
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Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition was developed by Oxide Games and published by Xbox Game Studios.

Yes, Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition is playable and fully supported on Windows.

No, Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition is not playable on MacOS.

No, Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition is not playable on Linux.

Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition offers both single-player and multi-player modes.

Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition offers both Co-op and PvP modes.

Yes, there are 4 DLCs available for Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition . Explore additional content available for Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition on Steam.

No, Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

No, Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition does not support Steam Remote Play.

Yes, Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition
-60% 49.99€ 19.99€ Buy Now
Rating
6.7
1,231
559
Game modes
Multiplayer
Features
Online players
59
Developer
Oxide Games
Publisher
Xbox Game Studios
Release 24 Sep 2024
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