Pharaoh

It seems a developer has managed to leverage two bits of my Ancient Egypt-related childhood nostalgia in one go today. Triskell Interactive and publisher Dotemu used an animated trailer that reminds me of famous Val Kilmer musical Prince Of Egypt to announced a 2021 remake of absolute stone cold classic citybuilder Pharaoh. Well played. Pharaoh: A New Era was revealed as part of Gamescom this ye...

Steam News · Aug 8, 2019

Game DNA: growing order from chaos

Game DNA is a series where we take a single concept from games, strip it to its essence, and look at how it and we have developed over time. The summer of 1991 was all about ants. I was seven years old, and I spent the entire school holiday camped in the garden, gently catching winged queens and housing them in shitty coke bottle formicariums. There I would watch them lay e...

Steam News · Feb 18, 2019

Have You Played Pharaoh?

Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time One of the first games I picked for a Have You Played? was Zeus: Master Of Olympus. Well, Pharaoh is basically that, but Ancient Egypt. Or, if you prefer, Caesar III but Ancient Egypt. (more…)