Pharaoh™: A New Era on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information
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.
Pharaoh™: A New Era is a city builder, building and simulation game
developed by Triskell Interactive
and published by DotEmu.
Released on February 15th 2023 is available only on Windows
in 5 languages: English, French, Italian, German and Spanish - Spain.
It has received 4,469 reviews of which 3,308 were positive and 1,161 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.2 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 22.99€ on Steam.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel Core i5-9600K or AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450, 1 GB or AMD Radeon HD 5750, 1 GB or Intel HD Graphics 630
- Storage: 8 GB available space
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I would recommend, but it's a qualified recommend. I played pharaoh 25 years ago. It's a lovely, engrossing game, but also it has plenty of idiosyncrasies. Mechanically it doesn't quite work intuitively, and there are systems the game doesn't entirely explain. Once you do learn it though, it's so rewarding. Unfortunately it is one of those games where if you don't know what you are doing it means everything happens very slowly. Monument building can feel like it's happening in real-time. This remake/remaster does help in some regards. There's more options to for user-friendliness, and the designs have been updated to smoother, more modern style. I *think* the developers have managed to fix most of or all the major bugs since release. That said, this version is not a 'complete' version of Pharaoh. There are a few small features, like map rotation, that are now absent, but the biggest omission is combat. Battles are now resolved automatically, rather than having you control your troops. Combat wasn't the most interesting part of the original, but it does mean missions designed for combat are now de-facto a matter of economics - can you build a bigger army than the scripted invader in time? This breaks the Cleopatra expansion missions where you are supposed to fight historical battles, because the combat simply doesn't happen as intended. If you like city-builders and/or ancient Egypt, you'll probably enjoy the game. However, you are going to find flaws.
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If you liked the original, but disliked military system of the original buy it when it is on sale. But if you like your walls and towers to be usefull and to comand your troops, you are up to a disappointment.
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I have never played the original, but I bought it today with my husband as it is a nostalgic game for him. First day of playing and I am hooked. It was hard to pull myself away from the game to eat or participate in any other activity and I can't wait to hop back on tomorrow to figure out my current situation. Well done.
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I loved playing Pharaoh when I was a kid, as a kid who wanted to grow up to be an Egyptologist it was like a delightful trip back in time observing the native cultures for some type of anthropological study while simultaneously playing as an unseen entity controlling their environment. The game is highly nostalgic for me and every now and then I have every couple years dusted off my CD-Rom version of the game to replay a few of my favorite cities/scenarios. I even got my eldest son hooked on the game! I was so sad when the CD broke and then ecstatic when I found it on steam! While the original is still playable, modern systems sometimes have issues running it properly. So when Pharaoh: A New Era entered the scene, promising the original experience with enhancements and improvements that would run well even on my 4K screen... I quickly emptied my purse and threw my money at it. Does Pharaoh: A New Era live up to it's promises? Well, for the most part I'd say yes. It is probably one of the most faithful reboot/remakes I've seen. The graphics have been redone and work better on today's higher resolution screens. The music has been re-recorded with different instruments but has the same overall sound and tone. There are some great quality of life improvements. My favorite was being able to select the specific garden tile I wanted to use instead of an automated selection. I actually wish that I could also select the individual tile colors as well. You have a lot more choices about what messages you see, whether you have natural disasters, and more. For all it's good points and continued improvements after release, there are still some things that I don't really care for. First of all, there's a different interface. It probably won't matter to newer players, heck, maybe other older players besides me prefer it, but I continued to have difficulty with finding what I was looking for because my brain kept reverting to thinking about the original's interface. It's more of a minor annoyance or personal preference issue. Secondly, the map cannot rotate like it did in the original which again, is more of a minor annoyance. The biggest issue is that this remake does not have a combat system. It's completely missing. You get invaded with a message and a brief battle screen, but in the original you could see attacks in your city and even take measures to outlast an attack, avoid being attacked by naval forces, even supplement your forces with policemen or strategically fence in dangerous animals so that enemy forces would have to battle them hopefully depleting their numbers. None of these are possible in this game. While this is a good remake and offers new features I love, somehow it just feels different. I do like that this has a lot of achievements. It offers some which are easy to obtain or progression unlocked, but it also has quite a few that are really challenging. If you want to play through all the content and get all the achievements, plan on putting in some serious time. Pharaoh is not a quick game, even on 5X speed each city takes time to complete. Finishing it all took me about 360 hours. It's a major time investment. If you like city sims and ancient Egypt you'll still like this game just don't expect to finish it over a long weekend.
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Exceptionally fantastic remaster of Pharaoh. Removes all of the artificial difficulty BS from the original such as how absurdly low the timer is set for buildings catching fire and collapsing. The new graphics are amazing. A semi-valid point of contention is that they took away battles and made them automatically play out with no interaction. If you think this is bad then go play the original again and remember how certain missions have some BS spawn points, ie there is no way for you to know there is a military spawn point right on top of where your city is and at the edge of the map. Battles always take place outside a city so I'm in favor of this change. Also if you don't buy that, then the combat system in Impressions city builders has always been janky and lead to "How the eff did I lose THAT battle?" Also, this game unfortunately had a buggy launch, all of those have long been resolved by now as I just played through both military and peace campaigns with no issues. The steam forums and reviews are chock full of smelly losers who just want to hold on to the past. The original Pharaoh also had bugs that were never resolved but you don't remember that because the last time you played it was 20 years ago. If you still disagree, wanna fight me in the comments so I can make you look like an idiot? Also, go boot up the original Pharaoh and try to load an army into a ship and then come back and pretend like you remember the game. There is pretty much nobody else taking a chance on an old game like this, RTS is generally considered dead because of stupid smelly normies playing MOBA$hit. So be appreciative of actually good remasters we get like this.
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Developer
Triskell Interactive
Publisher
DotEmu
Release
15 Feb 2023
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