Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition

I played a lot on another platform and I'd like to add my points to the game. [h3]Music[/h3] The game has excellent score. Worth a praise, it is totally in tandem with the game and there are many tracks in the game to reflect upon that. [h3]Gameplay[/h3] The gameplay is top-notch. You can make yourself at home with this, especially if you love the genre as a whole. It will reward your playtime put in. [h3]Graphics[/h3] Mind-blowing, to say the least. All the small details are fine-tuned and hand-crafted. [h3]Acts and Eras[/h3] The game is divided into 12 Eras within 3 Acts. Each Act Transition is followed by an (optional) culling, which determines who are in the lead. Only the greatest of you survive through the Acts and get enough Fame to finish the game first! [h3]Crafting[/h3] Crafting is extensive, exhaustive and expansive and is always improved upon through the ages. From humble Feasts, Biscuits, Furniture to Computers, all have their place in history! [h3]Triumphs[/h3] And my favourite part of the game. If you construct a Triumph, it is celebrated by your people. All stop in awe, they wonder and astonish by the marvel of magnificent builders you have! [h3]Verdict[/h3] [h1]A history worth living through.[/h1]

A bit high on the micromanaging, but I'm into it. It's a challenging game with a bit of a steep learning curve but its very good. There are a couple things I would like to see, like mods.

The game I bought, version 2, was so bad with such awful micromanagement I couldn't even play it. But, I went to steam settings and turned on access to betas and got version 2.1. Soooooo much more sane. Not the absolute awfulness version 2 was. If you're miserable playing this game, get the beta version. It's much better without such stupid micromanagement.

Wirklich eine gelungene Alternative zu der Civ-Reihe. Was ich besonders finde im Vergleich zu Civ ist das dieses Warenketten-System nochmal ein wenig Tiefe mitbringt -> Das lässt auch mein Anno-Herz etwas springen. Definitiv empfehlenswert!

Ara: History Untold can be quite the fun game. Most people will probably look at it and immediately draw comparisons to the Civilization series as they do share plenty of similarities. However, the two main entertaining challenges of this game ironically do not come from the genre's staples. Rather, I'd liken them to features in the Anno series, The Settlers, or perhaps even the old Impressum city builders like Caesar. For they are building placement and production chains. In Ara, while you do exploit resources much like in many other games, most raw materials are actually just that. Raw. And they aren't particularly useful in said raw state. Instead, you are encouraged to build buildings to process them so they can be turned into a greater asset to e. g. your cities growth or production. For example, finding copper on the map might make you think you'll just build a mine and then you're done with it. But that couldn't be further from the truth. Copper is entirely useless unless you include it in the production of for instance lithic tools (a staple of the early game). To make lithic tools you'll need a workshop for which in turn you need to find a good spot. Because buildings in this game take up an actual spot on the map. Each region has a random number of slots available. Some are large (e. g. 5 slots), others are small (e. g. 2 slots). And to make it even more complex, some buildings buff other buildings or receive a buff from being in a region with buildings of the same sort. So for our lithic tool workshop we'd now want to think about where to best put it so it receives as many bonuses as possible or at the very least doesn't block other buildings that might profit from bonuses in the respective region. A water well improves the output of farms in the region, for example. So we'd probably not want to put our workshop where we want to farm. And to top it all off, some of these goods you produce then need to be manually assigned to your cities to give them the buffs you want for them. A city founded in the desert will require some extra food to keep it afloat, for instance. Which then leads to considerations of which good to use where, because you can only produce so much before you run out of space. As such, Ara will quickly become rather micro-management intensive. This is why I'd urge you to ask yourself what you are looking for in a game like this before you buy Ara. If you are mainly looking for Civilization but better, you'll be left sorely disappointed by this game. If, however, the sound of a mix of Civilzation and the aforementioned Anno series or similar sounds intriguing to you, then give this game a shot. As long as you belong to this latter group of people, at a price of 30 to 40 bucks you'll probably feel well compensated. Thank you for reading! And should you buy it, enjoy the game!

I get to about turn 500 and then my food stores resets to zero (both the stored and per turn amount). This prevents me from building anything and I can't continue with the game.

Boring, confusing, no diplomacy, no personality for each Civ, too much micromanagement.

游戏很好玩，但是LGBT很恶心，你们这些LGBT就只配给我口！过时代不能取消淘汰机制很恶心，你见过因为分数不够就被历史淘汰的文明嘛？那么多著名文明领袖不上架却上架这么几个村妇你觉得你很nice是吧？UI设计真的很垃圾，操作非常繁琐，收益却很低！我每局都把生产链调好，结果还发现不如多造几个侦察兵直接踩几个补给划算