Immerse yourself in Ancient Egypt from the age of the great pyramids to the final years of the New Kingdom. Govern all aspects of the exotic Egyptian, culture from religion to trading with distant cities. Cultivate vast farms in the Nile valley and discover the important role this river, with its un...
Immerse yourself in Ancient Egypt from the age of the great pyramids to the final years of the New Kingdom. Govern all aspects of the exotic Egyptian, culture from religion to trading with distant cities. Cultivate vast farms in the Nile valley and discover the important role this river, with its unpredictable floods, played in the life of the Egyptians. Stone by stone, erect giant monuments - from the Sphinx, to the lighthouse and library of Alexandria.
Manage your city poorly and you shall watch it burn, be pillaged or collapse in economic ruin. Manage it well and ultimately the greatest Egyptian structures will be built in your honor. Your rule will span generations, until your dynasty, your royal bloodline produces a Pharaoh!
Pharaoh includes many features never before seen in a city building game, such as a farming model based on the flooding of the Nile, naval warfare, giant monuments that are assembled over time, unique dynastic progression, and variable difficulty levels. This a massively addictive, huge, but most importantly fun game that is a great choice for anyone looking for a solid city builder title, or an intellectual challenge.
Pharaoh Cleopatra bundle includes Pharaoh and Cleopatra: Queen of the Nile expansion.
A city-builder gem, made by the creators of the award-winning Caesar III.
Extensive help section not only does an excellent job at explaining the game mechanics, but also contains many interesting facts and trivia about life in Ancient Egypt.
Destroy enemies on land and sea, or simply build the perfect Egyptian city of your liking with the City Construction Kit.
Please be advised that Windows 10 operating system will receive frequent hardware driver and software updates following its release; this may affect game compatibility
Please be advised that Windows 10 operating system will receive frequent hardware driver and software updates following its release; this may affect game compatibility
Graphic: up to 1024x768, Windowed mode
Language: English only (-1 star)
Gameplay: Addictive
Comparable to: Caesar series, The Settlers series, Sim City Series
Recommendation: Buy
Due to the high graphic resolution it is still a playable and addicitve game.
If you could only choose one city-building game, this should be it. The graphics have aged very well, better even than the later Zeus + Poseidon. The gameplay of course is timeless, and it has the best learning curve of any game in the genre. This is a must for any sim collection.
How this game was built back in the days feels like the pyramids... how can someone build a game that simple, with such design, graphics and cleverness that stand the challenge of time! This is as fun today as it was back then. Amazing! For me is the best civ game (tied with Alpha Centaury) of all time. Wirth every cent spend and minutes played.
Probably my favorite city building game of all time even now after fifteen years. I played this when it came out. I was eleven at the time. I played a lot of games at that age but the one game that truly stuck with me was this game.
Pharaoh filled me with a sense of wonder for the ancient world. It probably made me somewhat of a dork too when I kept reiterating the missions and mission briefings as facts to other people back then. Classmates dreamed of being Astronauts or Firemen, I dreamed of being a Historian or an Archeologist...until the real world slapped me with the reality of bills. But that's how strongly this game affected me that even now, fifteen years later, I still spend a few hours of my free time reading up on world history, ancient mythologies or the latest discoveries on ancient civilizations as a hobby.
Having owned and played the other games of the series: Caesar, Zeus and Emperor. I still consider Pharaoh to be the best.
Now that I think about it, the game's still installed on my Pentium III computer I put in storage years ago...
Found it years ago in my dad's collection. Never let go since this day. Awesome game. Old graphisms ? so what ? You don't play this game just for graphisms. Every mission is a challenge, the sandbox mode is awesome and you can never feel bored with this game. Trust me. It's awesome.
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