Ara: History Untold, a turn-based historical grand strategy game from Oxide Games, a team of veterans from Microsoft and Firaxis, and Xbox Game Studios, was announced in June 2022 and scheduled for release this fall, but Xbox has now launched a new official website.updateIt was also revealed that the release date for Windows PC, including PC Game Pass, and Steam PC has been set for September 24, 2024.
In addition, Oxide Games President Marc Meyer and Xbox Game Studios' Brian Stone appeared in a 20-minute explanatory video in which they revealed interesting details such as the concept and overview of “Ara: History Untold,” beautiful procedurally generated locations (without a copy-and-paste feel), 36 unique leaders, each with their own characteristics and playstyles, adjustments for multiplayer and an original simultaneous turn system that utilizes Azure, and high degrees of freedom in domestic affairs.
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Ara: History Untold
Build your nation, lead your people and journey through history to witness the greatest achievements mankind can achieve. Explore new lands, cultivate art and culture, conduct diplomacy, and go head to head with your rivals to prove you are the greatest ruler humanity has ever known. The world is yours.
Ara: History Untold evolves the epic strategy game of the past, combining the classic PC strategy mechanics you love with innovative gameplay such as a nation-crafting economy, simultaneous turn-based play, non-linear technology trees, and cloud-based synchronous and asynchronous multiplayer. All of this can be experienced from a wide range of vivid perspectives, from a bird's-eye view across the edges of your empire to an in-depth look into the daily lives of your citizens. In Ara, there is no predetermined path to victory, but infinite possibilities. Your choices will determine how you build the world, what you experience, and what you leave behind.
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■ Explore an immersive, realistic world
Explore dynamic, realistic worlds brimming with life, from tropical jungles to sandy deserts, and find the resources you need to grow your nation. Your citizens move around the world and dynamically respond to periods of health and disease, war and peace, prosperity and despair. See the world come to life in vivid, realistic detail, with unique biomes, cultures and eras that represent the global diversity of the human experience.
Inarticle Horizontal■ Build your own nation
Serve your people and increase your prestige with a myriad of facilities, from forges to libraries, fortresses to cathedrals, parks to industrial factories, and countless other architectural feats conceived and constructed by human hands.
■ Guiding people through an age of human discovery
Advance your nation through 12 unique technological eras, shining your people and fostering your inventions as you make difficult choices about where to focus your nation's greatest minds. As the end of each era approaches, you must decide how quickly to push your scientists on the path to the future, while keeping a close eye on the risks of the present.
Inarticle Horizontal■ Control a rich and detailed national economy
Harvest the bounty of the natural world and expand the workforce of your people with a deep nation crafting system. Will you create a comfortable culture of lavish feasts that will bring powerful benefits to your cities and citizens? Or will you invest in crafting weapons of war to defend your nation and prepare your armies to conquer enemies? Whatever path you choose, you must carefully optimize your resources and production to achieve the most efficient system if you want to outmaneuver your enemies and gain wealth and lasting glory.
■ Rule your own way
Inarticle HorizontalChoose from dozens of history's most influential characters to reshape the world through your choices. Ara features unique and diverse global leaders and nations, each with different play styles. Experiment with traits that influence gameplay and powerful leader abilities drawn from their impact on world history. Friend or foe, each leader has a distinct personality based on their historical context that influences AI behavior.
■ Experience simultaneous turn-based gameplay
Each turn, each nation's actions and choices are decided simultaneously, providing tension, anticipation and fun with different outcomes, as well as a surprising twist on traditional turn-based formulas. The fate of your people depends on your decisions and your ability to predict your enemy's next move – a test of your leadership skills to the limit.
Inarticle Horizontal■ Protecting people on land, sea and air
War in Ara is depicted in a realistic world, with thousands of years of military conflict reflecting the progress and valor of the people. Develop technology to build up military strength to counter enemy nations, pray for an advantage in wartime economy and industry, and outwit your enemies' strategies, as multiple strategies are possible thanks to the simultaneous turn-based powers.
■ Prove your strength in online multiplayer
Combining the speed and surprise of simultaneous turn-based play with the power of the cloud, Ara's multiplayer is fast, seamless and asynchronous, with a wide range of options to tailor it to how you want to play with your friends.
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