Rise and Fall: Bronze Age

With a Bachelors in History, spurned on by a childhood love of Crusader Kings , the thrill of stepping into history through a video game is not what it once was for me. The more knowledgeable you are on the time period, the more likely the particular mechanics of a game like Crusader Kings or Total War will pop out as ahistorical to you. As a lifelong obsessive over games like this, I am beyond astounded at the level of historicity that is on display in Rise and Fall: Bronze Age. Never have I played a game which so accurately portrays the period of history it represents, both through it's graphics and its mechanics. Lets start with the graphics. Ludwig Lorekhan deserves some sort of award for the character portraits. I see them in my dreams. Egyptians are brown, wear skirts, have lashed whips upon their belts (Narmer, who?), jewelry about their necks and arms. Sumerians are lighter skinned and wear EXACTLY what is depicted in historical art. The Kaunakes skirt. The polka dotted cape from the Standard of Ur. Braided beards and curly hair. Long flowing robes a la Gilgamesh. Its divine, there are no two ways about it. I have played many a historical game and I do not exaggerate w…

Review is tentative as the game is early access, but for someone who loves the Bronze Age I'm really glad its getting a grand strategy game. There's some good bones here, and as long as the dev fleshes everything out properly this will be a great game. If you are picky about UI however, you'll definitely be upset with this.

Recommended because it's an ambitious project and a small team, but honestly it needs time to cook.

Great potential I love the concept. Main issues is that the game for me was unplayable: it was half in French half in English and none of the buttons did anything for me. I see great potential in the game I would love to revisit it down the line. I hope the develepor does not abandon the game and gets some help.

I love this game and the idea's and road map for the future! also there is an issue when having autosaves enabled causing the menu interactions for saving and loading to be non accessable, causing manual saves to not be possible.

Though it is relatively sparse at the moment the foundations of the game are quite good and assuming continued progress, it will be great to see what comes