Nebuchadnezzar

mac support pls

fun to play

nice game to play

Classic Caesar/Pharaoh-style city builder with pre-classical Mesopotamian civilizations. This means not much metal-working until late-game, a different city style, and a LOT of clay-based industries. Perhaps my biggest criticism is that four of the products come from clay, meaning most cities end up having a huge clay series of clay quarries no matter what. The difficulty on this one is Caesar custom-map level, especially on the hard setting where you'll be having to sink your pops and potential income into lowering the chance of strikes and riots. Some of the later difficulty also comes from having to rigorously plan how to get the specific product you need for trade, and you're fighting the clock and the starting money to do this. Other of the genre have instead given you less starting money but a quicker way to get trade, so for less experienced builders this can be a death sentence. Beyond that the balancing act of the cities is challenging. Caravan not moving efficiently? Guess what, your ale ran out and your poor pop moved out so now there's no production and it's a death spiral and the mission is basically over. This tightrope walk is why I'd probably recommend som…

very good

I grew up playing Pharaoh and absolutely loved it. Awhile ago a friend recommended this game to me, saying the visual style was similar, so I gave it a shot. Wow! It is incredibly fun. The graphical details are excellent, many mechanics have been modernized to fit nowdays game. It’s a shame that the developers stopped updating it. But deep down, I still crave the original Pharaoh because it just feels more "well-rounded" and cohesive. The only reason I’m writing this review now is because I recently tried Pharaoh: A New Era, and it is absolute garbage. The UX and management design are atrocious. The graphics are terrible. citizens models literally look like flour dough. It was so bad it kept me up at night. But hey, it made me realize just how much better and more enjoyable this Mesopotamian game actually is.