Community15 Feb 2024First Year Anniversary Celebration!Greetings Pharaohs! Today, Pharaoh: A New Era celebrates its first year on Steam! Since launch, over 150,000 players began their reign in Ancient Egypt under the watchful (and sometimes wrathful) eyes of Bast, Osiris, Ra, Seth, and Ptah. Thank you for your feedback, suggestions, and incredible screenshots showcasing your awesome kingdoms. We are so grateful for your continued support of the gam…
Greetings Pharaohs, We just deployed a new hotfix that addresses a few issues reported by the players. Changelog - 1.5.2 · Fixed Mission Khmun's (New Kingdom) text and date that used to loop forever in December once early troop requests timed out. ⚠️ Please make sure to restart the mission so the fix will take effect properly. ⚠️ · Royal Burial Tombs no longer requests lamps after completion. P…
Greetings Pharaohs, This is a small hotfix related to the latest Mission Editor Update: · Fixed a crash that occurred when the Tax Rate was lowered below 10%, or when trying to edit it via its text field. Pharaoh: A New Era is 30% off for a limited time only: Follow us on Twitter: Follow Louis Godart on Twitter: 👾Catch us on Discord:
Greetings Pharaohs, Today, we’re glad to announce that the Mission Editor mode is now available with the latest update for Pharaoh: A New Era. Starting today, you can play the Mission Editor mode and start your kingdom from scratch to rule it in your own way. Disclaimer regarding map names when playing in Mission Editor mode: A note on map names in the new Mission Editor Mode - all of your cust…
Greetings Pharaohs, Today, we're deploying a hotfix that addresses the following: · Fixed Fire overlay tooltip that always indicated buildings had no likelihood of catching fire · 'Ride now, ride now!' achievement now unlocks properly · Era achievements now unlock properly Keep up with the latest news on Pharaoh: A New Era by following: Follow Louis Godart on Twitter: How about checking his Sou…
Greetings Pharaohs, Today, we are ready to deploy a new update to Pharaoh: A New Era that addresses bug fixes and issues in the military system. Thanks to the community feedback received since the game launched, the development team worked to address issues related to the military system alongside a new Defense System that brings new purpose to fortifications. Added Defense System: · Defensive…
Greetings Pharaohs, We’re deploying a quick hotfix for Tuesday's patch: · Fixed the following issue: In the missions Menat Khufu (Middle Kingdom) and Khnum (New Kingdom), the pre-built pyramids were no longer accounted for in the initial calculation of the Monument Rating score, requiring the player to destroy them and build them again to be able to complete the mission. We want to thank you al…
Greetings Pharaohs, We’re deploying a new update that brings several QoL improvements as well as bug fixes to Pharaoh: A New Era. As always, the team is grateful to the community for its everlasting support and love for the game. NEW OVERLAYS NEW - Three more overlays added · Bazar overlay - displays food access to houses · Magistrate overlay - displays courthouses access to houses · Problems -…
Greetings Pharaohs, Today we finally add the long awaited ultra-wide support to the game. We also wanted to improve player experience by increasing coverage of buildings, making UI improvements and more bug fixes, most notably by fixing more save corruption issues and monuments getting stuck . Added ultra-wide support We could not test every variation out there, so if you encounter any problems…
Greetings Pharaohs, Today, we're deploying a hotfix that addresses the following: · Fixed corrupted save issues some players encountered after the last major update All corrupted saves should be accessible from now. If you still encounter issues with your save, please let us know by posting your save file in the Technical Support subforum . Click Here for the process to find your save files. Yo…
Greetings, Pharaohs. We deployed a new patch addressing some gameplay bug fixes as well as adding the highly-requested mini-map, balancing, some rework, and improvements to Pharaoh: A New Era. New Features: · Added mini-map to the bottom left of the screen. · Added ' Flat Mode ' and ' Grid ' Toggle to the mini-map. (as explained in our previous blog post, both modes already had their own key bi…
Greetings everyone, We're pleased to unveil some details about the upcoming patch that includes several things (bug fixes, in-game improvements, etc.) but also the long-awaited and highly-requested mini-map feature. Community feedback is and will always remain important to us. We keep going through every single suggestion shared on Steam or Discord to figure out how we could go further and take…
Greetings Pharaohs , Today, we're deploying a new hotfix that addresses some issues (gameplay, localization, saves corrupted) reported lately: Various bug fixes: · Fixed an issue with german localization causing invasion events to trigger improperly. · Fixed various localization issues in all languages supported (English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish). · The standard 9% tax rate no long…
Greetings everyone, Pharaoh: A New Era launched a week ago and today we need to tell you more about what’s next for the game. First of all, we can assure you that we are working on bug fixes (saves being corrupted or any other bug that prevents mission completion). A few words about the mini-map native ultrawide support and military system: Several players voiced their concern and frustration r…
Greetings Pharaohs, Today, we're deploying our first hotfix that addresses some of the gameplay issues reported lately: · Removed access to the debug menu when activating the cheat codes in the options. · The ' palace ' tooltip no longer breaks the other tooltips · The ' population ' tooltip no longer closes every time a day passes. · Achievements now properly unlock in the GOG version. · “Bles…
Greetings Pharaohs, The team is pleased to announce that Pharaoh: A New Era is available now on Steam as we speak! First of all, we'd like to thank the Pharaoh community who's been supportive since the very beginning when we revealed this project in 2020. Your involvement, everlasting support, and love for Pharaoh will remain forever in our hearts and soul. For the players who have ever heard a…
Greetings Pharaohs, We're more than thrilled and proud to introduce a brand-new gameplay overview video of Pharaoh: A New Era. This video allows us to tackle several gameplay mechanics and introduce a few tricks to build and make your kingdom live on through the 4000 years of history narrated in-game. Pharaoh: A New Era is the remake of the beloved and original 'Pharaoh' game released in 1999.…
Greetings Pharaohs, We're thrilled to announce that Pharaoh: A New Era launches on February 15 ! Get ready to build your kingdom and make it live on throughout 4,000 years of history with : · Campaign with six different periods of Ancient Egypt, 53 missions, and hundreds of hours of gameplay · Free Build mode · Cleopatra: Queen of the Nile expansion included · Re-orchestrated soundtrack by Loui…
Greetings Pharaohs, We're thrilled to share with you an exclusive interview with Louis Godart, the main composer of Pharaoh: A New Era soundtrack. Louis will talk about his commitment to faithfully rearranging and enhancing the authenticity of each track from the game OST with traditional Middle Eastern instruments. He will also tell us how he managed to overcome the difficulties encountered du…
Greetings Pharaohs, As stated in last month’s article, this time we’re ready to give you an update regarding Pharaoh: A New Era development. Steam Next Festival in February 2022 gave us a real opportunity to gather and study community feedback and we can't thank you enough for that. The development team has been working wholeheartedly on the game, and with this community effort, succeeded in ad…
Greetings everyone, Long time no speak! We’d like to give a quick update regarding Pharaoh: A New Era development. These last months, the whole team has been quite busy with production and development. A new demo was showcased to the press during Gamescom that introduced in-game tutorial and a few missions. Then, a week ago, the same demo was also presented during a French video game event call…
Greetings everyone! Today, we are back with the following (and last) part of the dev blog about the game’s Art Direction. First of all, we would like to apologize for the delay as this dev blog was supposed to be out last month. To be honest with you all, bad luck hit us, and part of the social team in charge was on sick leave for a while. Anyway, we are back now, and here are some more answers…
Greetings everyone! Today, we would like to invite you behind the scenes of Pharaoh: A New Era, with an exclusive dev blog dedicated to the game’s Art Direction. More precisely, we invite you to discover what Guillaume (aka Noodle) - Art Director at Triskell Interactive - has been working on so far. This two-part dev blog reveals details about the creative work behind Pharaoh's graphic makeover…
Greetings everyone, Steam Next Fest ended yesterday, and we're now looking forward to bringing you the final game later this year. Thank you so much for your feedback, streams, and various videos throughout the week. Thank you for your constructive comments and for the trust you have placed in us (even with all the nostalgia you have for the original game). It goes straight to our hearts. A hug…
Greetings everyone, As you may already know, Pharaoh: A New Era will be coming to Steam later this year. However, we are well aware that most of you have been waiting for a while to see new gameplay footage of the game. Well, we thought of a much better thing for you: how about trying the game instead? Indeed, the first FREE demo of Pharaoh: A New Era is now available until February 28 (7 PM CE…
Greetings everyone, You all have been so supportive and lovely regarding our series of articles on redesigned assets. Well, today we are so thrilled to share with you a brand-new trailer. Here, enjoy this side-by-side comparison trailer that will make your nostalgic heart melt with joy. From the crowded cities to the most modest buildings, this trailer shows you both our ambition for this remak…
Greetings everyone, Today, we are delighted to share with you our first development diary that features the music of Pharaoh: A New Era. In this development diary, Théophile Noiré (co-founder of Triskell Interactive) and Louis Godart (musician and composer) have a passionate chat about Pharaoh's music and fond memories. In the end, the team's musical vision is based on both a desire to do justi…
Greetings everyone, In this month's article, get ready to be blown away by some of the monument assets redesigned by the team, such as the Great Library of Alexandria , the Great Sphinx of Giza , the Sun Temple , and the Caesareum . Also, if you're interested in the graphical aspect of the game, please note that we are currently working on a dev blog about it. For those of you who are curious,…
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