The legendary city-builder returns! Lead the creation of one of the greatest civilizations the world has ever seen in this HD remake with modernized UI. Build monuments, manage your population and explore 4,000 years of history through over a hundred hours of gameplay.
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Immerse yourself in the history of Ancient Egypt with 50 missions in Pharaoh™: A New Era, a remake of Pharaoh (and the expansion Cleopatra: Queen of the Nile), one of the best city builders from the golden age of Sierra Entertainment. Stone by stone, build your city and manage all aspects of its development to ensure it prospers and makes you a powerful and revered pharaoh.
Develop your city by cultivating the fertile lands along the banks of the Nile valley. Erect the iconic monuments of Ancient Egypt, including the pyramids, the Sphinx and the Lighthouse of Alexandria. Build temples and mausoleums to help manage all aspects of your city's health and culture as well as the predominant polytheistic religion of the time.
Ensure your city is prosperous enough to deal with economic or political crises, or even plundering by enemies. A pharaoh takes care of its people and does whatever it can to earn the favour of the gods.
Pharaoh™: A New Era celebrates 20 years since the release of the famous franchise with a complete remake, including more than 50 playable missions and over 100 hours of gameplay.
The "Campaign" mode teaches you the game basics while allowing you to experience a unique story in the heart of Ancient Egypt. Explore all aspects of life in a thriving city, build and manage all its fundamental elements to ensure it flourishes: the economy, internal and external trade, culture, health, agriculture, education, etc.
The journey back in time is really brought to life with this new version, which upgrades the gameplay mechanics to modern standards and completely redesigns the captivating soundtrack and gorgeous isometric 2D graphics.
Many indicators have also been added or improved: keep better track of the frequency or quality of the Nile's floods with the Nilometer, or don't lose sight of your population's mood with some unique new tools!
● A Classic Remade: Rediscover 4,000 years of History in HD in this remake of the cult city-builder Pharaoh and its expansion Cleopatra: Queen of the Nile.
● A Rich, Complex and Unique Experience: Trade and develop your economy with neighboring cities and make your civilization thrive while facing the elements with the flooding of the Nile, wars with your enemies, the furies of the Gods and the plagues of Egypt.
● A Fortune of Fun: Lead your people through a rich 50+ missions and 100+ hour campaign, or unwind and build the metropolis of your dreams in a Sandbox mode.
● Breathtaking Views: Marvel at the beauty of budding settlements and lively cities sprawling across the Egyptian sands, brought to life through fully reworked, intricate hand drawn art.
● A Fully Reorchestrated Soundtrack: Take in stirring recreations of the original soundtrack’s melodies, rearranged and performed with traditional oriental instruments.
● Hundreds of gameplay changes and improvements: a fully redesigned UI, new and redesigned mechanics like the Workers Tooltip, the Fixed Worker Ratio or the Global Labor Pool, the ability to quickly copy-paste buildings or to disable predators... And so much more!
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| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
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SteamYou are here | $22.99 | 5.4Kreviews | 75% | — | $4.4M |
| $10.09−56% | 267ratings | 70% | #241 | not modelled |
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I tried this a while back when it was originally released. As a fan of the original, it was missing a bunch of features and I found it way too easy. Now after some patches and with the community bugfixes mod (found on nexus and frequently updated) it's way better and much closer to the original especially in the difficulty aspect (very hard mode feels much more similar to how original felt). Overall, I think the only thing missing for me now is the camera rotation and military aspect (though I don't miss it the latter too much). Overall I can recommend this as a way to play Pharaoh in 2026.
...wie vor 20 Jahren...einfach toll gemacht :)
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Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 1.25/day in the week to Jul 21 → 0.6/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 24 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 9 places towards #1, and the 2,404 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
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Languages: English*, French*, Italian*, German*, Spanish - Spain**languages with full audio support
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Good old times...
This game makes me feel like a little kid again with its nostalgic music score and story. The graphics has been well improved than the previous version. Hats off to the developers for enhancing the gaming experience while also preserving the integrity of the game.
Es hat zwar nicht den Charm des alten Spieles, aber die neuen Features machen viel Spass.
Gesamtwertung: 8/10 Story: Das Spiel nimmt dich mit auf eine Reise durch die gesamte Geschichte des alten Ägyptens. In der umfangreichen Kampagne begleitest du den Aufstieg deiner Herrscher-Dynastie über Generationen hinweg – vom Aufbau kleiner Siedlungen im Nildelta bis hin zum Bau der gigantischen Pyramiden von Gizeh. Es ist eine faszinierende Geschichtsstunde, die den Aufstieg und Fall ganzer Epochen erlebbar macht. Technik und Physik: Die Neuauflage besticht durch wunderschöne, handgezeichnete 4K-Grafiken, die das alte Ägypten in neuem Glanz erstrahlen lassen. Besonders das Wasser des Nils und die Details der Gebäude sind hervorragend gelungen. Die Technik wurde modernisiert (flüssiges Zoomen, UI-Anpassungen), auch wenn die Wegfindung der Bürger immer noch auf dem klassischen System basiert, was Nostalgiker freut, aber manchmal etwas eigenwillig wirkt. Gameflow: Der Flow ist klassisch und fesselnd: Man plant Wohngebiete, sorgt für die Nahrungsmittelversorgung durch die Nil-Überflutungen und errichtet komplexe Industriezweige. Das Errichten der monumentalen Weltwunder ist ein langwieriger, aber extrem befriedigender Prozess. Die modernen Komfortfunktionen (wie das globale Lager-System) machen den Spielverlauf deutlich flüssiger als im Original von 1999. Kritikpunkt: Leider fehlen in der Neuauflage einige Funktionen, die das Original und seine Erweiterung auszeichneten, wie zum Beispiel die animierten Kämpfe auf der Karte (diese wurden durch ein Menü-System ersetzt). Zudem kämpft das Spiel auch heute noch mit kleineren Bugs bei den Handelsrouten und einem UI, das an manchen Stellen fast schon zu modern und steril wirkt, wodurch ein wenig vom ursprünglichen Flair verloren geht. Wunsch für die Zukunft: Ich würde mir wünschen, dass das Militärsystem noch einmal überarbeitet wird, um es taktisch anspruchsvoller zu machen. Auch ein Editor für eigene Szenarien oder eine Rückkehr der animierten Schlachten würde das Paket perfekt abrunden. Fazit: Pharaoh™: A New Era ist eine liebevolle und optisch beeindruckende Hommage an einen der besten Städtebau-Simulatoren aller Zeiten. Es ist der perfekte Einstieg für Neulinge und eine wunderbare Nostalgie-Reise für Veteranen, auch wenn es kleine Abstriche im Vergleich zum Original gibt. Mein Rat: Wenn du Aufbau-Strategie und das ägyptische Setting liebst, ist dieses Spiel ein absoluter Pflichtkauf. Es bietet hunderte Stunden Spielzeit. Wer jedoch das alte Kampfsystem sehr geschätzt hat, sollte sich vorab ein Video dazu ansehen, da die Änderungen hier am massivsten sind.
Schon die erste Version war sehr kurzweilig. Die Grafikanpassungen sind sehr gut gelungen. Und wer Pharaoh früher schon gern gespielt hat, wird mit der Neuen genauso viel Spass haben.
Fühle mich fast wie 1999!
Great update to the original game, sadly missing the same military element. But still a great game.
Amazing masterpiece of a game. And the remake is great. Saw some people commenting about bugs, but I played almost 40 hours through the campaign smoothly, didn't notice any bugs. I really hope they remake Emperor, Rise of the middle kingdom, that's one of the best games I've ever played.
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