Pharaoh™: A New Era
Triskell Interactive · 2023 · City Builder, Building, Management, Simulation, Colony Sim
PC
Mostly Positive76% · 4,733168playing now
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About Pharaoh™: A New Era
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Build sprawling ancient Egyptian cities across 50+ missions, managing everything from agriculture and trade to religion and defense while constructing iconic monuments like the pyramids and sphinx. This modernized remake of the classic city-builder features completely redesigned 2D graphics, overhauled mechanics, and a full orchestral soundtrack that brings 4,000 years of history to vivid life.
Immerse yourself in the history of Ancient Egypt with 50 missions in Pharaoh™: A New Era, a remake of Pharaoh (and the expansion Cleopatra: Queen of the Nile), one of the best city builders from the golden age of Sierra Entertainment. Stone by stone, build your city and manage all aspects of its development to ensure it prospers and makes you a powerful and revered pharaoh.
Develop your city by cultivating the fertile lands along the banks of the Nile valley. Erect the iconic monuments of Ancient Egypt, including the pyramids, the Sphinx and the Lighthouse of Alexandria. Build temples and mausoleums to help manage all aspects of your city's health and culture as well as the predominant polytheistic religion of the time.
Ensure your city is prosperous enough to deal with economic or political crises, or even plundering by enemies. A pharaoh takes care of its people and does whatever it can to earn the favour of the gods.
Pharaoh™: A New Era celebrates 20 years since the release of the famous franchise with a complete remake, including more than 50 playable missions and over 100 hours of gameplay.
The "Campaign" mode teaches you the game basics while allowing you to experience a unique story in the heart of Ancient Egypt. Explore all aspects of life in a thriving city, build and manage all its fundamental elements to ensure it flourishes: the economy, internal and external trade, culture, health, agriculture, education, etc.
The journey back in time is really brought to life with this new version, which upgrades the gameplay mechanics to modern standards and completely redesigns the captivating soundtrack and gorgeous isometric 2D graphics.
Many indicators have also been added or improved: keep better track of the frequency or quality of the Nile's floods with the Nilometer, or don't lose sight of your population's mood with some unique new tools!
● A Classic Remade: Rediscover 4,000 years of History in HD in this remake of the cult city-builder Pharaoh and its expansion Cleopatra: Queen of the Nile.
● A Rich, Complex and Unique Experience: Trade and develop your economy with neighboring cities and make your civilization thrive while facing the elements with the flooding of the Nile, wars with your enemies, the furies of the Gods and the plagues of Egypt.
● A Fortune of Fun: Lead your people through a rich 50+ missions and 100+ hour campaign, or unwind and build the metropolis of your dreams in a Sandbox mode.
● Breathtaking Views: Marvel at the beauty of budding settlements and lively cities sprawling across the Egyptian sands, brought to life through fully reworked, intricate hand drawn art.
● A Fully Reorchestrated Soundtrack: Take in stirring recreations of the original soundtrack’s melodies, rearranged and performed with traditional oriental instruments.
● Hundreds of gameplay changes and improvements: a fully redesigned UI, new and redesigned mechanics like the Workers Tooltip, the Fixed Worker Ratio or the Global Labor Pool, the ability to quickly copy-paste buildings or to disable predators... And so much more!
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
TLDR: While lovingly recreated and reproduced, it feels like a missed opportunity, and also suffers several frustrating bugs. [b][u]General Thoughts/Overview:[/u][/b] The old Sierra city builders were great games in their time. Pharaoh: A New Era (PANE) faithfully recreates the classic game, and in some ways has done an excellent job. But first, a synopsis! We are the omniscient controller of a city. We build the housing, the industry, the military, the trade supply chains, and the temples to the gods. At our direction monuments rise form the sands, and the city thrives or dies. It’s all very quaint when you think about it, but as a premise it works nicely. The levels find us in the shoes of various governors throughout the long history of Egypt, with different resources and buildings available to achieve our goals. The thing I feel I need to say before the nitty-gritty, is that a good remaster of a game looks and plays the way you [i]remember[/i] it playing, NOT the way it [i]actually[/i] played… and in that regard, unfortunately, PANE fails. If anything this game is TOO faithful to the original, but I’ll get to that. [b][u]Pros:[/u][/b] [list][*] The old city buil…
Really enjoy this very very similar to the original and a game a loved playing as a kid.
Awesome remake! My only real gripe is the new combat system... It feels really half baked and takes away from how true to the original the rest of the game is. Hopefully someone mods in the old combat at some point.
obviously made with a lot of love
Loved this game growing up! Love getting to play a remastered version of a game I still love. Challenges your mind, helps you learn random stuff, and gotta love a city builder
I really want to like this game. I love the art style and the rich historical aspect of building ancient egypt up from small villas to a mega metropolis with large statues, temples, tombs and more. On the surface, this looks like your typical city builder sim, not too much different from Sim City or Cities Skylines - but once you start to pull back the layers, it's much more different - you have to more or less micro-manage the happiness of your citizens by making sure they have enough amenities near by or they all start getting pissy - this wouldnt be so difficult if the pathing of people supporting these amenities were more predictable. There is an optimal way to play to assure that everyone services a specific city block, but it makes the gameplay feel like it's more about min-maxing and less about building an aesthetically pleasing city, as the "optimal" layout can be quite wonkey in design and appearance. I just want to plan my city, lay out my districts and have my people thrive as my city grows - but this game says that if you dont adhere to a specific cookie-cutter formula, your people will be pissy and growth will stagnate.
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