Builders of Egypt

It has huge potential ....dev is trying on his own to fix the game...so the only thing i can do is to give a thumbs up!!!
Keep up the good work man!! You can do it!!

I bought this game and have had so many issues. First, it freezes frequently and the autosave takes forever. I did start doing the campaign, which includes the tutorial; however, because of several glitches causing it to just take forever, i decided to jump into sandbox mode to see what else the game had to offer. I restarted a few times just during my learning curve, but eventually got all the logistic figured out and had an awesome game going. But today, I realized that their save/load game function does not work and my game is completely lost. Also there are other issues that cause weird distortions in the game (like a levitating wall that comes out of the top of my pyrimid. It is pretty frustrating. Wish I could get a refund, because I don't think I have the patients to play this as it is.

cant get past the second mission. They took Pharoah game and apparently can't get over logistics of how to export without making players go through 5 or ten ways to get to one simple mission. Useless spend of money and even the walk through doesn't function if you step out of one arrow or another. I wasted 10 hours online and on game trying to figure out their "export this way" import this way methods... waste of money, waste of time.

second mission,can't find anywhere to place mines..

Dear Creator,

1. When a game is saved and then reloaded the next day, there's always a problem that occurs when there weren't any problems when the game was saved.

2. What is the point of having nobles when i can recruit soldiers when i build a fort?

3. The ratio of shrines and temples; as well as the entertainment buildings is so over the top and unrealistic.

4. Please fix the Tutorial where Byblos is not on the map and a port cannot be built.

Thanks

ps. seriously considering changing to Builders of Greece

I played this for all of 20 minutes and was frustrated. When I play a video game I want to unwind and relax, not feel like I am dealing with a 500 page accounting report. I found it overly complex with a steep learning curve. This could have been much better with a sit down and play type of style but not so easy that it was designed for a little kid either. Civ 5 was easy to learn without a tutorial, this was like opening a calculus book after being out of school for 10 years.

Until this game gets proper patches to fix all the bugs and optimization, do not buy it. Feels like I wasted couple of hours playing this. Feels like the whole game was generated by Ai ....

I love the Game very much especially since I am a fan of Ancient Egypt I home the Development goes on and by the way is there a Discord to join? I also would offer my self to Translate the Game to german.

If you want Pharaoh with upgraded graphics, this is pretty close.

As a long time player of other Egyptian City games I can thoroughly recommend this game. Yes, there is a bit of polish needed but ultimately if the dev/s work on it, it will satisfy my needs for a relaxing game!

Save yourself the trouble until the day they actually fix the bugs. The game's state gets stuck and either you restart or things go terribly wrong. The interface is incredibly buggy, you can't even see what you export or import correctly which is vital for the game. With the last news from the developer I am not sure it's actually going to be playable any time soon.

Even though the game is riddled with bugs and performance issues (especially when your city grows later in the game) I do recommend Builders of Egypt. I'm convinced that, with a bit of polishing and fixing, it will be able to completely live up to its potential.

This game keeps failing after 30-60 minutes of play.

This is a tough one. I really enjoy the underlying product. But there is a LEARNING CURVE. You really can not just build. You have realize going in that this is a trading management game early on until you can start taxing. Your FIRST priority should be to set up export routes to make money. That is the primary method to offset wages.

1. Find out what your neighbors are buying and what you can produce
2.Find a small food source close to a resource spot that you can exploit
3. Build a production operation to export as much of those products as possible.
4. NO MORE THAN ONE RESOURCES PER STORAGE YARD
5. Set wage rate slightly lower than kingdom average to save money without killing satisfaction

Rinse repeat until you make enough money to start going after the monument objective.

It's very finicky and you should definitely save scrum if you break it.

Sad to see if fading off into obscurity because it had real potential.

I would really like to see a way to determine what is propping up and dragging down satisfaction, haven't found that yet.

Cloud saves please!

Are you considering buying Builders of Egypt? Don't.

You are overwhelmed with facts about this once civilized world that no one reads, presented to you by an I.A. Monotonous and far too long.
People are hopping around waving at you and upon closer inspection they only tell you that they feel unsafe. Why? Why? That is not explained.
If you are one of those persevering people, you are confronted with buildings and trading partners that you must have, and then go bankrupt. They tell you what to do. There is no freedom to build your own city.
You would expect that when a storage has space for 4800 goods, you can store four different goods with a capacity of 1200 each. Not this game. It stagnates on all sides.
If you set your teeth into it, you will eventually succeed, but this is accompanied by a lot of annoyance and loss of fun.
I really blame the developers for cheating me out of money, without consulting us as players.
In the forum it is also noticeable that there is no interest in this game, because you rarely or never get an answer to your question(s).

I think it is outrageous that you dare to deliver something like this as a game.
After the demo you have had enough time to come up with something better,

EDIT: I have to change my review to cannot recommend. I can no longer save/load the game properly and the common monument bugs has done it for me. Sorry but several years in dev should have of ironed out these simple things years ago.
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I had a craving for an Egypt city builder so this was certainly a nice surprise to see one released a few weeks ago. Then I was a bit dismayed after reading the reviews. And then I read how long this was in development for, a few hot fixes, some positive reviews thereafter, so I decided to give it a go.

Ok I'm enjoying this AFTER getting my head around gameplay. I ended up replaying the first 5 tutorial levels and then watched the ummm live dev video which helped me much more than the instructions!

Now I'm happy to say for what I believe is an Indie game is great. Building monuments after the initial few challenges is great. Seeing the abundance of building types which lay in store is awesome, and even making the dev perplexed at times.

For a small game company - this is great. I am enjoying this once I figured out the mechanics which took a while. I have not encountered any bugs - I bought this end of Jan. Watch the dev video to give a good understanding and certainly helped me enjoy this more.

ps sorry to hear the company folded.

Where to begin… first I followed this game for years to get released. After many years it finally got released… how happy I was! How quickly disappointments started to rise. But as a die hard fan, I keep on trying to like this game. Up until a certain point. Enough is enough I think.

First disappointment. The eternal autosave appearing, freezing the game every 2 minutes. Then, building monuments… why not show animatics? Suddenly bam, 10% done, not even showing them chopping the sphinx. Or dragging the stones to the top. Nothing. Sad. The economic trade system… seriously? I can not set my own prices? Wood is more expensive then linen or weapons? How? Why? Why not allow me to decide how much beer costs? Then import… I set import to only 200 items of wood… otherwise I am broke in 2 minutes to the next autosave. But… the import up to 4800! For wood is delivered to the storehouse, taken out for weapons, and immediately new wood is sold to the storehouse, on, and on, and on, and on. Seriously? Then. I play on easy… attacks are with a full force, the same as on different play setting… the road system, when you place a road, the mini missions… “i lost my husband” he is always found other side of a map… the minimap, when clicking on it, you just see the overall of recources, no way to jump from 1 point of the map to another, so search for the husband, start scrolling, but ah, there is that autosave again freezing all up once again.

I tried to like this game… I seriously do… but after almost 1 month I honestly see more and more the flaws which get bigger and bigger… promises of updates, a batch. But so far after 1 month I still see little improvement of these select points (which others brought forth as well) that I am about to remove the game, and maybe… maybe try it again in 6 months time.

A shame, for I had such high hopes, it honestly looks good… but unfinished. And like I said, at the beginning I was able to look through these little annoyances… but if they pile up too much, no, then I don’t ignore them anymore, and the start to realy get into my nerves. And then it is better to step down, and consider it a month wasted.

First off, I want to say that I fell in love with the 1999 game Pharaoh and the expansion Cleopatra. I also have a major interest in ancient Egypt and all the mysteries from that time in history and because of my interest in both of these things I was really looking forward to this game.

Well, I played and finished the tutorial and I have no interest in playing any longer in its' current state. I was really surprised in the lack of quality, being that we waited so long for this game to be developed, since its' initial announcement back in 2018.

Upon starting the game, the first loading screens were passing by with a message at the bottom of the screen that said "Don't panic at the black screen, the game is loading!". There was no black screen, it was showing loading pictures, which was odd to me. When the main menu loaded I was met with clunky buttons that needed to be pressed a few times to get them to activate. When the tutorial loaded in, I was met with hard and constant screen tearing, no matter how little I moved the camera, so I opened the setting to see that v-sync was already activated, so it doesn't work. These graphical issues are something you would typically run into on an alpha or beta release of a game, but not on a full release.

I completed the haphazard tutorial after messing with the graphics settings that did nothing to improve the situation. I then stared in disbelief at the stuttering animations and graphical errors, careful not to move the camera to show the constant screen tearing. This should be in early access right now, if it was, I would let most of this go, but to release this as a finished game in this state is ludicrous. Honestly, the price point is fair for the poor condition it is in, I would have paid far more for a polished and finished title though.

After I tried to play the game, I read today's announcement from the dev team 'Strategy Labs' stating that they are really disappointed in the release of their game and rightfully so. Which led me to ask, why would they release the game in such a state as this? They had to know this was going to be a disaster, right? I mean, it was so bad that they just announced that they are now dissolving the entire studio as a result. The dev said they alone would continue to fix bugs, but there is so much more work to be done that I am doubtful it will ever become a properly finished project.

Many of us who were following the development of this game know that it had its' share of hardships. Many issues and delays were happening along the way. If you look at the Strategy Labs website, you can see that Playway (their publisher) owns 69% of the company and Jacek owns 28% and other investors own the remaining 3%. I think (my opinion) Playway gradually took over ownership as they ended up having to pay to have the game developed at some point and they forced Jacek to release it now, as Playway was fed up and not willing to allow for any more development. I have never been a fan of Playway and I usually steer clear of any games they publish, due to their poor antics. To me, it really looks like Playway ground down this developing studio and spat them out. Which would be pretty stupid, considering they are now the major share holder. Leaving them with nothing when the studio dissolves.

This is only my opinion, but it wouldn't surprise me, Playway being the type of company they are.

As I've seen many a time, people would like something inbetween a "Yes and No" rating on steam.

The short version is, The game is excellent, BUT it definitely has some major issues in it's current state. How deal breaking these issues will be to you greatly depends on who you are and how patient you are. This game is made by a single developer and at the moment they're making frequent updates fixing some of the more problematic bugs. Hopefully they continue to support their game and really help it shine.

The game is heavily inspired by Impression Games/Sierra's Pharaoh game from 1999. So much so that at least in it's current state it feels like the game almost expects you to have prior knowledge of the systems that made that game work. There are tutorials which are definitely helpful, but it lacks the absolutely amazing 270 page manual that came with that game. With more documentation, I feel the current reviews would be a lot more kind!

The game follows a timeline from early Egyptian settlement, to the building of the first Mastabas, stepped pyramids, and then onto the fully fledged pyramids that Egypt is famous for today. The first four missions all have a tutorial section where you're expected to build things in a confined area, before moving you to another region of the map and telling you to build a bit more. Once the tutorial on each of those levels is done you will get free reign of what you do over the entire map., with limited option at first, before getting more options as you progress.

You start each level with a certain amount of bread, which is the currency in the game. And because your only source of income is trading in early levels is bread, it's very important to look at what other cities around you are interested in buying, importing the materials if you need them, then exporting the goods as soon as you can. If you build too much too fast, you will find yourself in spiralling debt which can be stopped if you're savvy enough but the game does precious little to hold your hand or help you out of these situations. Also, as only one trader from each city can exist at one time it's important to ensure that you set up your stockpiles so you're only trading from places near the entrance point to the map, else you risk having the trader walk all the way across the city which can definitely stifle your income. Later on you gain access to other means of increasing income, but in the first early levels this can be quite tough if you don't go in prepared. You can also restart a mission at any point.

One other source of frustration I've seen a lot of people struggle with are things like the "Where's my wife?" missions and such. There's a number of them that pop up, and all these do is ask you to find their wife/husband/treasure/cow/priest etc. With these, you are looking for another person in the game with a blue glow around them that looks the same as the quest giver. If you zoom out enough they're usually very obvious.

When you do get to build the giant monuments and build cities around them it feels fantastic. The great big monuments look amazing in game, and it's really lovely seeing all the NPC characters cart huge blocks all the way across the city to take them to the monument. I'd love to see more decorative features in the game too , gardens, statues etc. At this moment of time I'm only 6 missions in so it could be that more get unlocked along the way.

But yes, I recommend this game, but only to those who have the patience to delve into what it has to offer. The patience to deal with a few bugs and issues. It's worth remembering that this game is made by a single person, and that is extremely impressive, and I definitely do cut them some slack because of that. I do hope that they're able to improve some of the features that have caused folks to be disappointed by it, and I look forward to playing more of the game!

I was really looking forward to this game after such a long wait. At the moment it is not that good to play - full of bugs and bad UI. Has this really been tested with users? I am an UX Designer and I think not. The tutorials can sometimes not proceed and there's nothing showing as to why. Choices to turn a stockyard feature on or off are confusing - if I press that button does it turn it off or on? It's not clear at all. Buildings collapse en masse when there are plenty of architects, fish quays won't rotate, exports won't export/imports wont import (back to the 'does that button turn this on or off?). So - basically it should/hopefully be a good game one day but at the moment I'm leaving it to one side and see what happens in a couple of months.

I absolutely love city building games, especially those which touch on historical phases, such as Ancient Egypt. I was an avid player of Pharaoh and Children of the Nile, both of which were far better crafted than this one is. It is so unfortunate, as I was hyped for the release of this game, but it remains to feel unpolished and still in development, which is surprising considering how long it was ongoing for!

The economical aspects of the game feels clunky and leave you with little control over how your economy functions and flows. Whilst bread is the primary currency, you are unable to develop it yourself, which feels like a bad touch to the game. In Children of the Nile, bread was one of the first things you would develop, and it worked well. I am now stuck on the 4th campaign, which is supposedly a tutorial, with buildings and aspects which I am clueless on how to use because the "tutorial" is severely lacking.

The graphics feel grainy and often causes glitches. The people walking around move like robots, often skiing over the ground like some 8-bit game. Whilst it is regrettable to suggest others do not purchase this game, it is based on the now - that is to say, the game may be better in the future, but right now it is still very much an undeveloped and unfinished product with poor features and aspects which only seek to infuriate the player.

Sadly, another open Beta disguised as a "finished" game. Crashes, incompatible savegames after hotfixes, bad optimization...if you can look past those, good core gameplay (thanks to the original developers of Pharao winkwink) and a nice art style. Still can't get myself to recommend this

Crashes, is stupidly difficult even on easy, and has a very annoying tutorial that confines your building area until you complete it. Slow and doesn't feel rewarding enough. It looks nice even though it needed more time in the oven to feel like a satisfying playthrough.

It feels very unfinished and would not suggest buying it unless it is on sale and you feel like waiting for them to fix it.

Ok, so an update, Strategy Labs studio(developer of Builders of Egypt) is closing, at lest form what i've read. As such it's highly unlikely it'll get any fixes/new stuff woth note. So this is geting a soild "No" form here, i will however be keeping my old review


To make this short.., good for what it is. But i'd be lying if i said i wasn't expecting more after having this game on my wishlist since 2019, it's not..bad really, a bit bland sure and doesn't really do anything "New" But it's pretty much just Pharaoh 3d, it's a decent game, but damn dose it need some work.

I played hours and hours on Pharaoh.
And i expected to find the same pleasure with modern graphisms and enhanced mechanics.

This game is just a bunch of bugs. Nonsens mechanisms. And the graphics are only worth when set to "cinematic" (Just to see the crops and the flood for exemple. Something that was basic in Pharaoh).

Where to begin..
This stockpile and city import export just sucks. It tells you one of your stock piles doesn't have a export or import set properly. So you must search each stock pile to check on everything you export or import. But I don't have time I have a mission to search the map for a dang cow.
Then in the 3rd campaign I need to export a lot of beer. Problem is, I can not grow barley or import it. So game over.
Now I tried sandbox and its so limited. The replay value of the game is zilch.
Laying roads is a pain. I just do not get the point of the game. it is only plop down what it says to do, and pray you can.

This could be a good game wit a lot of polish and fixes.

This game should not have been released in its current state . It is beta at best , with so many bugs and bizarre game mechanics . I had an instance where I could not build because a hunter was in the way , apparently tracking his prey . I stopped the hunters lodge from working , he still stood there tracking. So I demolished the lodge . He still stood there , apparently tracking his prey . I had this happen with 5 hunters .And this is just one tiny bug . there are so many more . Do not buy this game...

Found the Tutorials incredibly confusing. Just ended up with a bunch of over crowded stockpiles. Doesn't explain how to trade properly - lacking in tooltips which makes it hard to remember what everything does. No search help function to assist.

I didn't enjoy the gameplay. Seems like decent graphics but the user interface was not enjoyable and felt very 'clunky'. I was very hopeful for this game but was completely disappointed. Map screens that don't want to close. Want to trade? Make sure you go enable it in three places. Inventory management in stockpiles is a nightmare. Random popup quests with no apparent instructions. I've never requested a refund before. First time for everything.

I was excited when this game was first listed as I love pharaoh and other historic city builders, and I'm a history nerd to boot so the additional pitch of having more historical detail was cool. however the game seems to be written by Chat GPT or similar. It hallucinates names and people, has a weirdly casual tone in mission objectives and level info, and just gives straight up incorrect information in multiple places. Wikipedia exists these things are just verifiably wrong which is not what you want from a supposed historical city builder. Add to that graphics popping issues, odd economy balance, bland building design I'd recommend just replaying pharaoh & cleopatra until something better comes out this was a disappointment.

I am a big fan of Pharaoh and Children of the Nile and had this game on my wish list for years. Sadly it plays like cheap copy of Pharaoh and the game play is not even close as engaging as it is in Children of the Nile. The graphics is very pixelated in reality and frame rate not very good ( I have a NVIDIA 3060Ti), the NPCs are mostly stuck and do nothing. For comparison in Children of the Nile you can watch your citizens go about their daily life. The economic simulation is so simple its just boring and not engaging at all because there is nothing really to see. I was not even able to check if i produce enough resources to keep the manufacturers going.
I refunded the game after 40min playtime.

I cannot recommend this game. After thousands of city builder hours and "hundreds" of city builder games.
This just barely meets the minium requirements for handling in my book.
Content you can always add.. but when the UI and core feathures are.. off putting.. I tend to back away.

When "Pharaoh" and "Emperor" did this 20x better 20+ years ago.
No need to reinvent the wheel everytime..


Kind of sad, been hoping and waiting for this game. But No. I do not give a crap "about 100 missions or 100 Monuments.."
I want to beable to controll my camera.
See no item pops. (Are we playing on a playstation 2?)
I want MORE audio options like DIALOG.
I want MORE mouse options to decrease scrolling (Holy hell, scroll until you die.. 10 scrolls from max to min view.. WHY)


Why does the water look line Chainmail? Like a gritt o.o?
Why do all the people in the city look like a cheap clone? (I understand they are lowclass.. but come on!)
There are so much clunkyness... jeeze.
Camera handling.. everything.. just feels offputting.
You can go 90* down and see.. but you cannot tilt up....What?!
If I wanna have a overview of my City I cannot? But you lock the camera at an odd angle?
WHY do I need to see the bark on the trees at close zoom but cannot see my people when I zoom out.. lmao.
Constant item/vegetation popping due to poor view/optimizing. Very off putting when you move around.
And its there 100% of the time.

But I guess the developer team wants to you play in "first person mode" when planning and building a city..

Thanks for the EARLY ACCESS.. sure feels like it.
Maybe I will be back in like 5 more years...

I think I will just stick with the old classics. Maybe one day we get a remaster/remake.
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Thanks for the Feedback Emi! :KneelingBow:
I Will start with saying I wish Steam could had a nautral feedback section.

"Old school vides" Are good. And I did see the effort.
I felt it was like the old games in style and layout.
But UI and some other stuff was not.
(I havent played the game for a long time.. less than 1 hour but I have seen other play)

But to me the game still feels a tad to EARLY ACCESS.
(And I got PTSD from EA games..)
I think if you focus on the Items pops and Camera angles you get far.
Then later you can do a few UI changes or needed here and there.
Just becasue old games lacked Camera movement does not jusity new games having the same issue. But if people do not wanna change their angle, well they do not have to.)

But please let the people that wanna change it, change it. If I wanna tilt my camera into the sun... let me. I try to communicate with RA... (Ra the sun god):eaglegag:
Same for Keybindings, mouse controll etc etc. These are personal prefrences.. and cannot be "default" for us all. (many games keep forgetting this..)

And People do not wanna "learn" an complicated middle road, they want easy quick fixes. Thats just how we as humens work.

Bad example: (just a consept, and I talk about UI not Gameplay.)
If you can do the task with 1-2 clicks people are happy.
When you need to do 5-10 clicks to preform 1 task.. you over kill it.
And over time people will avoid it.

I think this game has alot of potential. So I am not hating or negativ.
-Even tho I sound harsh and unforgiving.
Facts are facts.

And this is how I talk.

Team feelings does not add to the function of the game or how it feels to us.
I know the feel when people "shoot" down your "balloon."

But again most games or projects of any kind has an tremendous amount of work and heart put into it. Unless the people that worked on it.. never cared. (Not saying)

But keep in mind, I never hated on anything rather pointed out what I felt could be better.

I have kept an eye on this games sins 2018 or 2019.
If I need to wait 5 more years, then I will wait. (I rather hope not):feste:
As the item poping and camera I think you should fix asap.

Becasue it's what most people will react to right at start.


PS: Congrats on the release :) :praisesun: :KneelingBow:

Builders of Egypt offers the player a calm and immersive gaming experience. Dive into the ancient world of Egypt, taking on the role of a city planner and managing resources, constructions, and interactions with citizens and deities. The tranquil background music, detailed city-building mechanics, and historically inspired aesthetics contribute to the relaxing vibe.

I was a massive fan of the Impressions games back in the day, so I was excited to give this a shot when I saw it. I watched a review on youtube several days before release and thought that perhaps they were being a little too critical.. that they might have simply misunderstood the mechanics.. but no. I might have only put 30 minutes into the game so far, but it's already driving me mad. I didn't even get out of the tutorial mission - I couldn't! The game gives you an objective, holds your hand and tells you what to put down and where, but following those instructions makes the game go "Nah, not good enough".

Much like the Impressions games, desirability of the area plays a crucial part in levelling up the housing. The first mission requires you to have a certain prosperity rating, which means having pretty, happy housing.. but the building placement the game TELLS you to put down makes the surrounding area inherently undesirable. That's fine, I can just put down some gardens or statues, right? Nope. The tutorial instructions didn't mention anything about a beatifications tab, nothing further of importance for you to know right now, just finish the mission.

I wanted to like this game, I wanted to give it the benefit of the doubt when I heard the criticisms and complaints, but it turns out they're warranted. It's a very pretty game, no doubt, but it feels like it's been slapped together and poorly implemented. I'm sure there's a simple answer out there for the issues I faced, but it's too late. If the tutorial gives this much hassle to complete, then I have very low expectations for the rest of the game.

If you're looking at this game because you fell in love with the OG's back in the 90/00's? Stick with the OG's.

The game isn't terrible it just feels like it needs more time.

If you've played Pharaoh, this is basically a carbon copy with better graphics. The buildings and everything are almost identical. I'm pretty sure I even recognized ambiance sounds directly from Pharaoh wile playing. Maybe that was supposed to be like an easter egg, an homage or I'm just crazy. Who knows.

The game needs to be optimized badly. My GPU was maxing out on medium settings and I have a RTX3060, well above the recommended specs. Even dropping everything to lowest possible setting had it at about 80%. Nothing in this game should be pushing my card that much. After fiddling with graphics settings for a while trying to find a balance between performance and quality and making no real progress I ultimately just uninstalled it.

It took me 3 attempts at starting a new campaign to get the first scenario to let me move to the second scenario. It would just get stuck and not let me progress. Once I finally did get it to let me into the second scenario, the game crashed. Not the end of the world, I've had worse launches of games before but it's annoying.

The tutorial is pretty basic. Don't expect the game to give you much info about how things are supposed to work or to help you troubleshoot problems. The UI is also pretty clunky and doesn't always respond intuitively.

Will you enjoy the game if you like city builders, probably. If you can look past the flaws. For now, I'll play Pharaoh for the Egyptian City Builder experience. Hopefully in the future I can come back to a more polished game.

The game is good but the only thing that i find annoying is when u finish the a mission and u stay on that mission to do other things & when u want to move to the nxt mission it wont leave u. i quit the game & went to continue it brought me back to my last save. when i go to pick the next mission its not unlocked even though i finished the last mission. sandbox mode is abit janky i put down a wall and tried putting it down to the river & it wouldnt leave me go all the way with the wall.

As an avid player of Pharaoh and other city builders, when I've seen this game is coming out, I've wishlisted it immediately. It spent a few years on my wishlist, due to being delayed over and over again, but today I've finally received an e-mail that the game came out.

Immediately installed it and upon launch I was already surprised how unoptimized the game is. It looks like the testers were completely forgotten or ignored. For example, building roads, which is something you will do the most in the game is annoyingly complicated. You cannot start a new road on the same tile where the existing road ends, you cannot cross roads, you have to manually work around the existing road to draw your new road.

It didn't take long to see that this is basically an adaptation of the original Pharaoh game, which wouldn't be a problem, but the graphics, the gameplay, the entertainment factor and mostly the controls of the 1999 game are much-much better, which is a pretty bad thing considering a 25 year gap between the two releases.

This game runs clunky, the economy is not refined at all, the city planning part is almost non-existent and the whole experience is very much "early alpha".

All these after many years of development, for a full price, which is rather shameful.

Save your wallets people.

Rather a disappointment overall. Nothing really to distinguish it from predecessors, and the rather limited graphics don't make it a particularly pleasurable game to play. For such a simple and limited scope, the UI is overly complicated, busy, and unintuitive. The ancient world really deserves better city builders than copies of older beloved games

Fun little city builder if you're a fan of the older Sierra games. Much to be approved though. I'm quite dissapointed in the animations, for example the citizens animations are choppy compared to others. Also really dissapointed in the graphics, not the texture and environment itself, but the range in which things render, there are a lot of pop-ins happening, and I mean a lot. When zooming in and out you can literally see bushes, trees and shadows dissapear or pop in. Quite annoying, and this is on Epic quality.

Balance also seem a bit off in terms of production, this is not a big deal as I feel this will be improved with time. I also miss hints on buildings as to what they need and what they use and why they use it. For example, the first tutorial mission you need 600 pottery. I had to build 4 potteries in order to store that amount. But there was no information anywhere that I could find as to what was using all the pottery. I think that houses was but that's the problem, there was no information about this so I could adjust, I was forced to build more production which led to lack of workers which led to more houses being built whicg led to more pottery begin used... You get the point. So, more information on the buildings and better balance would be nice. (this goes for overall production, not just pottery).

It's also really difficult to see what houses need in order to upgrade, what their needs are and what buildings will rise the happiness. Overall the lack of information is lacking and makes the game quite un-fun to play when you have to play a guessing game untill you eventually learn.

Again a title I would like to give a rating between up/down but Steam still don't have this feature, so for now it's a down. This is by no means a "do not buy" title, the price is well worth it. It's just my personal opinion of the overall graphics and animations that for me brings down the score and rating.

https://youtu.be/7YLqMLcKe94

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As I'm sure you've already noticed I gave this game a thumbs up. But it is NOT a glowing reviewing. Look I'm not blinded by some love for the game or devs. I'm just some random guy who loves city builders and has played a lot of them.

The ONLY reason I give this game a thumbs up is simply because it wasn't terrible, or broken. That's it.

The game is average in almost every way. From it's graphics to it's gameplay. From it's sound to it's stability. It's average across the board. 5 out of 10. And THAT'S why I give it a thumbs up and not a thumbs down.

When thinking about it objectively I can't offer you any particular reason why the game isn't phenominal. But I also can't give you any reason why the game isn't complete garbage.

The sound is great. The sight is not.

The gameplay is well thought out, but poorly designed.

The stability is fairly good, but the UI and tutorial are awful.

The pricetag is very appropriate so at least you won't be getting screwed over.

TLDR:
This is an average city builder with tens of hours of content and a unique skin that isn't seen anywhere else. Except Pharoh. It's not exceptional but it's not terrible and they are respectfully not charging you more than it's worth. Buy it if you're bored of the other city builders you've played a hundred times over. But otherwise, go play Manor Lords.

If you'd like a more in-depth look at the game with more information I encourage you to check out the review on my YouTube Channel (Link Below).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi2BFHoJHHk

Otherwise, thanks so much for reading and I hope I managed to help some of you out there spend your money wisely.

Look, I'm simple. I see pyramids, I give it a shot. Haven't seen any pyramids yet, but I'm getting there. I hate walker gameplay in my citybuilder so Pharaoh is out, and the carrier gameplay here feels much more Anno in style. My comparison point for Egyptology games will always be Children of the Nile and this already feels much more complex than that admittedly simple game. For a (Small? Solo?) dev team, I understand why individual workshop animations might not be there, but it's enjoyable enough to roam over my workshops and watch the potters pottering away.

One point of confusion though - I can't tell if stacking decorations next to each other actually provides a benefit, or if my mining slums won't be ok with neighborhood density if I just cram green space around them.

I do wonder where all the women are though, my streets are full of loincloth wearing dudes asides from the bazaar carriers. No wonder that one guy keeps losing his wife, she's practically Smurfette.

Give us an option to see the pre-mission lessons outside of the loading screens! I want to learn, but I don't want to wait to play.

Overall, between my hour here and the demo (huge improvements from that, BTW) I feel comfortable leaving a positive review. Is it the perfect Egypt citybuilder game? No, but it's what we have and there's fertile gameplay here for $20.

So far, it feels like little more than a 3D adaptation of Pharaoh, with even the variety of structures you build being more or less the same as that game. One of the few differences are the little missions civilians will give you from time to time, but these are mostly the same (e.g. one guy needing you to find his missing wife), and these are mostly the same and don't add much. Finally, I was hoping this game would be moddable, but that appears not to be the case. Overall, rather underwhelming so far.

Mechanics are earie similiar to the Pharaoh, while 3D graphics not looking good, and being poorly optimized. Especially striking is the details distance which is laughably short. Usually how the game looks is second to me in case of managment games, but in this case you would have extremely similiar (if not better) experience with Pharaoh, which 2d graphics looks better than this.

Avid city builder enjoyer, this one just isn't it. It's like any other builder, but over complicated for no reason. Popups every 5 seconds, one fishing dock fills up your supplies within minutes even while exporting. Buildings collapse randomly, people get sick and the building will just collapse. Has a sandbox mode but still has win conditions, which you can continue playing after.

The campaign seems like it would be ok, but the over all functions of most things are just over complicated. Houses are undesirable because there's a fire station near it, but it will burn to the ground the second its out of range of the station. Citizens get mad because there's another house near their house or mad because there's a granary 10 grids away.

Might be better with future updates, but refunding for now.