It's a game like Civilization but much more simple and faster to play. It is fun and have a lot of egyptian flavor. You play in an Egypt map and with specificaly historical Egypt events occur. The drawback: you only have an egyptian civilization, an egyptian map and then same egyptian events, so there is not so much replayability here. You can replay the game one or two times to improve your score, but after that the game is over. Nevertheles, for the 3€ I payed for it in a sale It gives me eight hours of gameplay, so it worths he money.
Not only I enjoyed the game but I have learned a lot about prehistory. When your tribe of 50 people who get a meager surplus of food should allocate four strong men to push a megatile for a year, you realize what it should cost to do those prehistoric works. If you like history like I do and you want to see it in action, you will enjoy the game During the game you have a sense of purpose and progress at all times. Yo look for hunt gives you something to do while things are being built. Sometimes you have to decide if it is worth risking men to hunt a woolly rhinoceros or not, and you get happy when you found a yummy and full of skins deer herd. There are many technologies and almost all of them represent a substantial improvement in your settlement. The better technology you have, the more population you can maintain, without any artificial mechanism to limit yourself. The UI is easy and intuitive and the graphics are OK. I like the way research is resolved: You don't have a research shack, but you get the knowledge based on doing things. You receive a point of knowledge for hunting a new type of animal, for collecting your first 100 spikes of center and so on. The game is easy in the sense that there is nothing that cannot be overcome with a little patience and work. A raid can kill four or five villagers and destroy a tower and a section of the wall, but It can't eradicate your rnyitr settlement. That is good for me, I'm not for roguelike games. I see the challenge in the game in trying to achieve the milestones in the shortest possible time and there is room to improve your gameplay in each game. The negative: sometimes you have to wait a while to get the necessary knowledge points to move your settlement to the next level. Also the game lacks replayability because each game is not really much different from the previous ones.
You do the same actions over and over again but, when you are not doing them, you are doing simply nothing, just waiting. If this game is intended to be played in a continuous session It needs a speed time key. To look to your screein waiting for some bars to advance is simply not fun at all.
