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
I spent many countless hours on this game back in the days when dial-up was still rulling the internet and getting a smooth connection was the luck of the draw and your service provider (who shall not be named but which looks similar to awol, hint hint). I loved it when my huts would get their resources and grow automatically or decline due to a lack of recourses. It really makes you plan ahead where to put your settlement! Like someone else said the atmosphere in this game is very warm and calming so you barely see the hours fly by. The next thing you know it's already time for dinner! Now I just have to find that copy of my game again and rev this baby up.
Haven't played this in years and am really enjoying it again. Graphics are ok, as per original ... old school :o) Be prepared to spend hours in front of the PC,; it is quite addictive.
It is precisely those special "walker" dynamics and building placement rules and effects that make this game one of the best city builder gems in the whole wide world.
It is almost impossible to overstate in describing the overwhelming feeling of thrill and reward when your houses evolve into palaces and you manage to have a working infrastructure that supports high standards of wealth for your people... which is a quite difficult thing to achieve, especially when ressources are somewhat limited and your population ages. By the way, the last mentioned mechanism is not a pain in the ass, as some critics tend to claim, it is a brilliant and realistic touch to controlling your cities population over generations.
This game represents true greatness in game development and almost no other game in this category has aged that well, that's for sure.
I've owned the physical copies of this, Zeus& Poseidon, Caesar II and III since I bought them all around 2002 in a package deal I found at Walmart. I still play them. Caesar III drives me nuts as I've never loved the mechanics of it. Still love to play Caesar II on occasion. Currently replaying Pharaoh/Cleopatra for probably the 30th time now. Never gets dull. Once I finish it again I will replay Zeus/Poseidon.
Most cost effective games I ever bought considering I've got 20 years of use out of them!! And they're like the new mobile games without the dang drama :)
I will never not tell someone to play these, they are wonderful games and I wish there were new versions, but you really can't compete with a classic. I'd love if they were remastered though. That would be...oh...totally divine!
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