Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information
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Build a nation starting at any point in human history and compete for supremacy in this epic turn-based strategy game. Engage in diplomacy, fight wars, and go head-to-head with other leaders from history.
Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition is a strategy, 4x and grand strategy game
developed by Oxide Games
and published by Xbox Game Studios.
Released on September 24th 2024 is available only on Windows
in 26 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Vietnamese and Malay.
It has received 1,790 reviews of which 1,231 were positive and 559 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.7 out of 10. 😐
The game is currently priced at 49.99€ on Steam.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 (20H1) or later
- Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 2400G – Intel i5-5300U
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 480 – Nvidia GeForce GTX 970
- DirectX: Version 12
- Storage: 50 GB available space
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With the release of 2.0 I feel I can finally recommend this game. Ara comes with it's own take on the 4x "civ like" style of game, where the focus is on the production of the ever more complex resources that your civilisation needs. With the original 1.0 release the game suffered from a very bad case of micromanagement requirements, but that has been considerably improved for the 2.0 release. The AI is also doing much better now and will be a good challenge on the appropriate difficulty level. Combat is fairly simple in the game, more similar to something like EU4 than Civ, but honestly that works for me as the micro focus shifts to managing the economy and crafting of the various production chains. This game offers one of the most amazing descriptions of what the industrial age must've been like on a historic scale, as you find yourself suddenly being able to produce incredible goods that have huge impact on your people or your armies, that in turn need huge quantities of lesser goods that can only be produced in the needed quantities by standing up dozens of factories and rushing to acquire sources of coal to power everything and seeing the health of your cities plummet all the while. I hope to see more development on Ara, it does it's own thing and it's pretty good at it!
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The game has really become great with the updates. A automation for crafting, unique leaders and leader specific units, UI improvements. Really immersive. My go-to now after the failure of Civ7.
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So I've been playing Ara quite a lot these last two weeks. I feel like it's a really solid game that could and should have some of its weaker aspects improved; on this, the game is being actively developed and player feedback is taken into account. What's good: - The map/living world looks absolutely gorgeous + the choice of having natural looking provinces rather than hexes makes it look all the more realistic - The economy is great, with lines of production and goods galore - The technology system makes sense and you see your civ slowly evolving as you go through time - Good variety of units and buildings. The formation and reserve system for armies is a nice mechanic, though war is a bit too reliant on having the biggest stack. - Also that is a tiny aspect that really matters to me but cities in Ara show the actual number of inhabitants rather than abstracted numbers. Seeing that my mighty capital hosts 6m people rather than 21 units of population is one of these little things that helps getting immersed in your civ-leading. More of those! What could be improved: - Diplomacy and religion are both there, but they could be much more engaging. Multilateral diplomacy is sadly absent - Trade is nowhere near as developed as economy. With that many goods to be traded, that's a real pity! - There should be an easier way to compare your cities and to see their production, income, etc at a glance - Leading to this, this game screams for more stats and graphs. There is already a stats and standing screen, but it could definitely be expanded with more entries Also larger maps would be great! I've started playing on the 1.4 preview and the numbers of regions have been expanded (which is great) but as someone who loves playing on humongous maps with a lot of opponents, more size and generation options would be very welcome.
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I've played this game for 200+ hours and liked it a lot better than Civ7. I enjoy the depth of the resource planning and management, crafting and city optimisation. It also feels to me more like old school CIV than CIV7 actually does. Each turn can take quite a while and each game itself can last a long time. I personally love that please don't dumb it down because a few people complain. Only thing i'd like to see improve is the military side of things, love that there are lots of unit types and tech advancements etc but the battle craft is somewhat lacking and not as engaging as CIV7. Having said that I much prefer ARA and will keep replaying this rather than CIV. Beautiful graphics and music too. Well done team.
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Ara is a really good game. I played first on game pass and bought it here later. No civ clone but an alternative with many different concepts and different focus. Clearly to recommend, but maybe not for all. At first some of the concepts can be confusing, but when you get into it, most makes sense. Resources and Crafting to produce amenities for your cities and equipment for your units are a main focus. You need some time to understand what is important and how many workshops, potteries, forges, ... you need to build by when so that everything runs smoothly and with limited micro management. If you like creating and optimizing your production chains, this is your game. Era changes are included with the main impact that the weakest nations are removed (but no, no nation/civ changes). This increases the challenge to survive and works well for me, but I saw also many criticizing it in the beginning, so maybe not for everyone. The map has no hexes, but is divided in small provinces with 1-6 subregions where you can build farms or buildings. As your cities grow, you claim more. Borders look more natural. Food generation and city production are not only dependent on the fertility of a province. It depends a lot on city size, improvements and corresponding adjacency boni, city happiness, assigned specialists,... The resulting values can be at first hard to predict, but it makes more sense after a while. Units and warfare are on a first look more simplified. You build units into a reserve pool and muster them in combined squads (in any city, not only the producing one). Certain combinations inside the squad give you boni. Battles are in the end often decided by who brings more to the battlefield/province maybe including supporting fire from squads with archers etc from neighboring provinces. If you want a more complex battle simulation, be cautious here. Might be not for you. But overall it works fine. Diplomacy is okay. Nothing spectacular so far. Not every relation change is clear, but also not too random. More unique is the idea, that wars have goals and a timer leading to an auto-peace. It is good and avoids prolonged wars, but might also appear as too artificial for some. V1.3 is announced to bring improvements to diplomacy. I am looking forward to what it will bring. AI opponents are on high difficulties competitive in the first half of the game. Later they fall back . Devs mentioned that AI improvements are on their list and I hope they can do more here too keep Ara more challenging in the long term Trade is very simplified for a game with so many goods. Beside AI improvements, a new system here would be my biggest wish, even if it comes later as paid content. There would be more to mention, but this is enough for me now. Finally I would like to add that the developers look for feedback and continue to work on it. New patches are coming to improve the game, not very fast but steadily.
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Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition is currently priced at 49.99€ on Steam.
Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 49.99€ on Steam.
Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition received 1,231 positive votes out of a total of 1,790 achieving a rating of 6.68.
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Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition was developed by Oxide Games and published by Xbox Game Studios.
Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition is not playable on MacOS.
Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition is not playable on Linux.
Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition offers both single-player and multi-player modes.
Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition offers both Co-op and PvP modes.
There are 4 DLCs available for Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition . Explore additional content available for Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition on Steam.
Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition does not support Steam Remote Play.
Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Multiplayer
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Online players
21
Developer
Oxide Games
Publisher
Xbox Game Studios
Release
24 Sep 2024
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