However, one should bear in mind that this game does not claim to be educational, it places itself into the realm of historical fiction. This way the game can spark interest for the civilization in players. Another neat detail is that you can click on any house or person to see how they are doing and what the individual is ‘thinking’. The game routinely encourages players to read more about Ancient Egyptian civilization by providing all kinds of information, for example, trends in granary architecture in different periods of Ancient Egyptian history. Pharaoh is stuffed with small details that make the game even more immersive. Another example is having beer breweries added after apothecaries arise in some cities, this might have been the case, but it is certainly not a standard order (if you want to delve deeper in this, click here). On other occasions less so having specific gods added at certain points might not have been accurate, they could occur from a similar point onward. Sometimes this is defendable yes food is probably more important than musical recitals for survival. From a historic perspective, this could be viewed as problematic in this way, historical processes are represented to be linear players could get the idea that civilisations always need to complete one step before they take next. Players can slowly adapt to new challenges and are not overwhelmed by too many things at once. Now, for a city-building game, this works marvellously.

The player completes missions to advance to a new step or era and every time new elements are introduced into the game, raising the difficulty.

Since this is still quite some months in the future, this is the perfect opportunity to revisit the original and wonder how did a game of 20 years old remain popular? Is it due to a major feeling of gamer-nostalgia or is there more to it? What do we hope changes or remain the same in A New Era? Reason enough to give this game a new life in the upcoming game Pharaoh: A New Era that is expected to be released in 2021. To this day Pharaoh is still being mentioned as the best city-builder game ever (one of the public’s favourite on sites as ‘ ranker’ ‘ the gamer’ and at least in a top 10 on other sites) and you only have to look at the Steam reviews to realise this game holds a special place in many hearts. This city-building game takes place in Ancient Egypt and the player leads ‘a great family’ that should steadily rise to power throughout fifteen centuries and two dozen generations, by managing cities and people’s needs.

The game Pharaoh came out over twenty years ago in 1999 and became an instant classic.

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