About the Game
Ara: History Untold is an evolution in historical grand strategy, featuring beloved classic PC strategy mechanics alongside innovative gameplay like a national crafting economy, true simultaneous turn resolution, a non-linear technology tree, and cloud-backed synchronous/asynchronous multiplayer - all with an expansive and vibrant presentation where you can zoom out from surveying the very edges of your empire all the way down to your citizens living their daily lives. In Ara, there are no pre-set paths to victory, leading to endless possibilities. Your choices will define the world you create, your experience, and your legacy.
Explore an Immersive Living World:
Explore a dynamic living world filled with life and charm across sweeping landscapes ranging from tropical jungles to sand-swept deserts as you discover the resources you need to develop your nation. Witness the world come to life in vivid, realistic detail as citizens move throughout the world and react dynamically to times of health and sickness, war and peace, wealth and despair with unique biomes, cultures, and eras representing the diversity of human experience.
Build Your Nation:
Serve your people and grow your prestige with numerous Improvements, from forges to libraries, citadels to cathedrals, public parks to industrial factories - as well as a global variety of the greatest architectural Triumphs ever conceived and built by human hands.
Guide your people through the eras of human discovery:
Nurture your people’s brilliance and invention as you progress your Nation through twelve unique Technology Eras, making the hard choices about where to focus your Nation’s greatest minds. As you near the end of each Era, you’ll have to decide how fast to push your scientists along the path to the future - at the risk of the present.
Oversee a rich and detailed national economy:
Harvest the bounty of the natural world and deploy the labor of your people with a depth-filled National Crafting system. Will you manufacture Amenities - like lavish feasts - to provide your cities and citizens with powerful benefits, or invest in the creation of Equipment - the weapons of war - to prepare your Armies to defend your nation or conquer your rivals? Whatever paths you choose you’ll need to carefully optimize your resources and production to achieve the most efficient systems if you want to outpace your rivals to fortune and lasting glory.
Rule Your Way:
Choose from dozens of history's most influential figures to embody as you reshape the world through your choices. The unique and varied global Leaders and Nations in Ara emphasize a wide variety of different playstyles. Experiment with gameplay-impacting Traits and powerful Leader Abilities drawn from the effect they had on world history. Whether friend or foe, each Leader has a distinct personality based on their historical background that informs their AI behaviors.
Grow your Nation:
Extend your reach and expand your Nation’s borders through claiming new territory, conquering cities, spreading your Religion, or by expending Influence. How your Nation grows and defines new borders is up to you.
Experience True Simultaneous Turns:
Every turn each nation's actions and choices resolve simultaneously, leading to suspense, anticipation, unique outcomes, and surprising twists on the classic turn-based formula. The fate of your people will be determined by your decisions and your ability to predict your opponent’s next move, putting your skill as a leader to the ultimate test.
Defend your people by land, sea, and air:
Warfare in Ara is presented in the Living World, as thousands of years of military conflict reflect the progress and martial prowess of your people. Develop technologies to advance your weaponry against your rivals, hone your wartime economy and industry to gain the edge, and outthink your opponent’s strategies as maneuvers resolve authentically at once thanks to the power of True Simultaneous Turns.
Prove Your Worth in Online Multiplayer:
Combining the speed and surprise of True Simultaneous Turns with the power of the cloud - multiplayer in Ara is fast, seamless, and able to be enjoyed asynchronously with a wide range of options to tailor you and your friend’s experience to the way you want to play together.
A Microsoft Account is required to play online multiplayer.
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Version Information
Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
Gameplay Adjustments
Updates to Cities:
- Cities now generate slightly more tax revenue than before to make getting money a bit easier.
- City food consumption now grows slightly slower as cities level up based on player feedback.
- City population requirements have been adjusted based on player feedback, in general, the cities will grow more slowly than before.
- Resolute Scripture now only applies to City where Religion is Dominant.
- Updated Angkor Wat buff to apply universally within the City.
- Updated Reflecting Pool to provide a +15 buff to City Happiness instead of Security.
Updates to Units:
- Embarkation Pass has been added as an unlock for Sails.
- The Battleship has been moved to a later position in the tech tree.
- The Destroyer has been shifted further into the tech tree.
- The base strength of Swordsmen has been increased from 7 to 8.
- Swordsmen no longer deprecate with Bureaucracy; they will phase out with Cannons once players unlock superior Infantry units.
- Elephant Ballistae have been updated to Ranged units.
- Navy Upgrade Groups have been streamlined to ensure ancient ships have late-game counterparts.
- Naval Upgrade Trees have been revised so Warships can transition to Cruisers, and Cannon Ships can upgrade to Heavy Gunships, enabling players to continuously improve their Navies across all Ages.
- Cruisers are now part of the Warship upgrade tree.
- Heavy Gunships are now part of the Cannon Ships upgrade tree.
Additional Changes:
- The Smithsonian Act goal has been revised to Act 3.
- The default slot for Feast is now Food instead of Money to help new players avoid running low on funds.
- Dwelling has been adjusted to utilize all the Supplies available to other Housing Improvements.
- Biscuits now remain accessible in Act 3.
- Corrected the data for the Blacksmith -> Anvil icon asset.
- Adjusted the Impulsive Trait to reduce Relationships by 10 instead of 100.
- Resolved the issue with the second Expert buff in the Industrial Fishing Farm.
- Hunting camps no longer have Wood maintenance requirements.
- Hunting camps now provide a small Harvest buff.
- The League event that gives players free Republic government tech early is now very rare.
- The Library has been reclassified from the Culture Domain to the Science Domain.
- Metal Pots now require only one Metal Ingot; Steel has been moved to its own slot with a larger production bonus.
- Monarchy's medium tax rate has been reduced from 70% to 50% to differentiate it more clearly from the high tax rate of 80%.
- Plows now offer a significantly greater Harvest buff.
- Upgrade costs for Farm Improvements have been refined.
- The Print Shop has been reclassified from the Impact Domain to the Industry Domain.
- Production-to-Research conversion has changed from 1:1 to 10 Production for 1 Research.
- The Refinery has been reclassified from the Impact Domain to the Industry Domain.
- Rivers now yield a unique +1 Wealth per turn.
- Food requirements at levels 5, 6, and 7 have been slightly increased.
- Temperate forests now provide +1 more Wood, making them more distinctive.
- A minimum of three resources of a given type will now spawn in the world, rather than just one.
- The Amphitheater of El Jem now requires Horses and Wheel Items instead of Chariot Units.
- The Improvement Category for the Refinery, Library, and Print Shop has been modified.
- Rope's third Accelerator now provides a meaningful +40 Production bonus.
- The Wealth cost of the Sneakers' second Accelerator Slot has been adjusted.
Gameplay Adjustments
Health Impact on Cities:
- Low health in cities now further reduces population growth.
- Population requirements for leveling up cities have increased, encouraging better health management for advancement.
Research and Growth Pacing:
- Research output at lower city levels reduced by 1, improving the pacing of scientific progress.
- City level 3 no longer grants a new claim, slowing geographical expansion and reducing the ease of blocking other cities.
Eyeglasses Buff Adjustment:
- Science building bonus from eyeglasses reduced from 2 to 1, maintaining their usefulness but with more balance.
Multiplayer
- Multiple issues with trade agreements have been fixed.
Resolved Issues
Trading Prompt Fix:
- A "Goodbye" prompt now replaces the "Confirm" prompt when multiple trade items are selected.
Worker Placement:
- Logging Camp workers will now spread out appropriately rather than clustering in one place.
- Additional localization updates across most languages.
- Sappho’s tenth Muse buff description updated to more clearly explain the regions it affects. The update states now that Coastal Land Regions are where the buff will impact.
- Catherine the Great's Siberian Expanse trait is reduced from +2 moves to +1 move per turn.
Improvements/Triumphs
- Farm textures that were not appearing in Act 2, now show up correctly.
- Barracks security buff increased from 15 to 25.
- Mines of Rammelsberg buff now affects both workshops and their upgrades.
Techs/Research/Items
- Beer recipe only requires 1 Pottery to accelerate.
- Herbal medicine wealth acceleration brought in line with production.
- Wine recipe only requires 1 Pottery to accelerate.
- Trade Goods now provide +10 security, +5 happiness, +10 knowledge.
City Management
- The Population growth from buffs cap is increased from 100 to 1000.
- The cap has been removed on Happiness, Health, Knowledge, Security, Prosperity City buffs.
- The Feast recipe has been updated to have money(wealth) for all three accelerator slots by default.
UI
- The build Queue now correctly expands to show all items rather than just one.
Units/Combat
- Siege units’ strength is now substantially reduced. Their benefit is in bringing down walls and bombardment in general, not as an all-purpose attacker.
- Chariots are now changed from Melee Cavalry to Projectile as they have ranged weapons.
Modding
- A crash that was found to affect the AI after modding the game has been fixed.
Multiplayer
- After creating a multiplayer game, players are no longer locked into that difficulty setting on subsequent new games.
Current Release
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System Requirements
How to Install
setup.exe
Troubleshooting tips
• Run Redist/_CommonRedist installers if game won't start
• Add folder to Windows Defender exclusions
• Run as administrator
Download
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13.7 GB
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