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It's a bit of a treadmill but one you'll find you don't want to get off in a hurry, not with a wonderfully vibrant, believable metropolis growing and maturing with each turn of the wheel.ĭrag-selecting a random group of scurrying citizens in my current scenario, we get a fairly representative cross-section of a typical CotN town. Much of the game's challenge rests in the difficult choice between using precious prestige slots for hoipolloi servicing priests, or using them to hire the tax-collectors, overseers, and army commanders that will ultimately generate more prestige slots. Keeping this mass of sweaty humanity happy and productive however, requires priest-staffed amenities like temples, hospitals, and mortuaries. Potential sodbusters, shopkeepers, and craftsmen are two-a-penny in CotN (just whack down a few appropriate abodes and generally they will come). It's often linked to scenario victory conditions and always determines how many of the crucial educated workers your rule can support. Reputation is represented in the game as a simple numerical tally a tally influenced by factors like the amount of monumental masonry dotting your skyline, the scale and scope of your foreign exploits, and the skill with which you've publicised those exploits at home. Social class and prestige are the new hieroglyphed touchstones of this cleaner, leaner, more historically-conscious design approach. Go beyond these superficialities however, and you find a very different experience, one far more in tune with history and far less interested in complexity for complexity's sake. OK, it was crafted by a lot of ex Impressions folk.

Sure, it features pyramid construction that would test the patience of a Nobel Patience Prize winner (see 'The Long Haul').

Yes, it's an absorbing city-nurturing game set in the time of Rameses and Ra worship. Fortunately, for every Exhumed (PCG 42, 52%) exhumed, or The Mummy (PCG 93, 28%) there have also been solid gold Tutankhamen death masks like A Tale in the Desert II (PCG 143, 83%), Pharaoh (PCG 77, 83%), or Pharaoh-for-the-trilinear-filtered-generation, Immortal Cities Children of the Nile (PCG 145, TBA%).Īctually CotN deserves a lot more than lazy 'It's Pharaoh in 3D!' gush.

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