Pharaoh™: A New Era

If you want to re-make a classic city-building game, then RE-MAKE it. Why there is still one of the oldest bug in the 3rd mission that keeps you away from progressing the campaign still exist?

I remember getting very excited when Caesar 3 and later original Pharaoh were on the market back in the late 90’s. Pharaoh would be a vast improvement of Caesar 3 in terms of city management, bug fixes, and some issues with roadways, etc. I was thrilled when I saw demos of the new remastered Pharaoh and patiently waited for the final product. Unlike others, I welcomed the graphical facelift and reimagining of the original music…but that’s where the pros of the game stay at. The rest of the game is incredibly buggy. I had issues where storage yards would not honor my orders; inability to rotate maps; the interface is a step back; any item requests made by Pharaoh were not properly delivered; many, many game breaking bugs that caused me to have to restart levels. Not acceptable. Finally, the combat in this game flat out sucks and defeats any purpose of building walls and sentries or possess any flavor of strategy. Sadly, I don’t think a serious patch of the game will address the critical issues. I might be wrong, but I would seriously hold off purchasing this game right now.

Played a bit in February after release. The game clearly was not finished. Now, in June, it's great. It has a lot of quality of life improves over the old Pharaoh, but still remains the same game. A few minor issues still exist (too many notifications about worker, reworked/simplified combat (should be optional), a few minor bugs, not being able to rotate the screen). However, for a fan of the old Pharaoh, I can highly recommend this.

Bought the original on disc with cleopatra really enjoyed it on my win 8 laptop but when the new era came out for win 10 yes got to have it.. Im 62 now really enjoy these city builder games caeser is also another great gam Today though after 5 successful missions l went on to discover my family name plus the successful missions all deleted have to go back to nubt and start again...er why did that happen ?...was alrite at 11 last night.. Is there a bug thats caused this ? Another thing the way you go to combat is terrible a pop up box with continue thats it win or lose...not a good addition pretty poor really... Another problem is when you give money or gift to the city it does not work think its worked once... Also l found when its loading the wheel at the bottom keeps going round and round pics change but wont play now .. So all in all a bit of a let down ..

I'm a big fan of Pharaoh, but for a proper remaster I wish for some more comfort features like turning the map, some way to look behind other buildings (e.g. by pressing Space), better road building. Spawn-points should be moveable. It should be possible to see at first glance, which gods are mad, and not just a very slight red tint of the portrait. There should be an error message, when you have debts and can't have any more festivals, nor open a trading route. You will get loads of impressions what could be added in the steam reviews or here. AND: There should be fewer bugs and flaws! In the first missions, there was no text in the mission goals (German localization). Also, the encyclopedia in the localization has the alphabetical order of the English game. It's really nice you included other languages, even with speech output, but please fix the mentioned issues. The mission goals are a bit too cryptic for my understanding. What do I have to do, to win the mission, what is wealth rating etc.? Maybe include some mouse-over explanation. The interface feels improved, but still a little clunky. The most horrible thing that happened to me was in the Campaign "Timna". Almost before I won the mission, the game began stuttering like hell. During the stutters, the game is like frozen, and it's not possible to minimize or open the game's window. Then the game runs again for a few seconds and freeze again. The freezes become longer, when you turn up the game speed. First I thought it's my PC, but it's deffo the game. It's like the path finding or whatever breaks, when your city becomes too big or when a certain message appears. Maybe it's related to military action. All the critics mentioned above are peanuts compared to this performance mess. A minimally refurbished 24-year-old game should run flawlessly!