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Pharaoh™: A New Era — patch notes and updates

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Pharaoh Joins Nebuchadnezzar in a Grand Double Anniversary Bundle2026-02-16The denizens of Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia couldn’t be in better hands. Your hands, of course! We’re celebrating the third anniversary of the release of Pharaoh: A New Era, and what better way than to partner with another ancient civilisation city builder to celebrate their anniversary, too!Build on the banks of the Nile valley in the classic Pharaoh remade, and paired with the original expansion Cleopatra: Queen of the Nile.You can also build, manage and expand in ancient Mesopotamia, with Nebuchadnezzar. Oversee agriculture, industry, and trade, and experience Mesopotamian History as you make it.Thank you to our fellow Rulers at Nepos Ga
First Year Anniversary Celebration!2024-02-15Greetings 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 game and hope you find many more hours of fun in it. Celebrate a year of prosperous reign with 35% off Pharaoh: A New Era! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1351080/Pharaoh_A_New_Era/ Thank you for a wonderful year, and may your reign be prosperous, Oh Ph
PHARAOH: A NEW ERA - NEW HOTFIX 1.5.3 LIVE2023-10-30Greetings Pharaohs, Today, we're deploying a hotfix that addresses the following: Fixed a rare occurrence where a save file could no longer be loaded due to some specific map corruption. Fixed Performer Schools (Juggler School, Conservatory, Dance School) no longer sending performers to venues if the one they previously sent failed to reach its destination for any reason. Fixed monument workers sometimes disappear alongside some of the goods needed for construction at a Storage Yard, when building some monuments. Fixed an issue where custom maps would fail to load in various cases. Reverted changes to camera edge-panning with the cursor, whil
HOTFIX 1.5.22023-10-13Greetings 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. Pharaoh: A New Era is 30% off for a limited time only: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1351080/Pharaoh_A_New_Era/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Triskell_Int https://twitter.comDotemu http://www.facebook.com/PharaohNewEra Follow Louis Godart on T
Hotfix 1.5.12023-10-10Greetings 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: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1351080/Pharaoh_A_New_Era/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Triskell_Int https://twitter.comDotemu http://www.facebook.com/PharaohNewEra Follow Louis Godart on Twitter: https://twitter.com/louisgodart 👾Catch us on Discord: https://discord.gg/pharaohnewera
MISSION EDITOR MODE AVAILABLE NOW - UPDATE 1.5.02023-10-09Greetings 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 custom maps will be shown under the "My Maps" tab in-game. You may create additional tabs to organize your custom maps in-game by creating folders via Windows File Explorer (C:>Users>>AppData>LocalLow>Triskell Interactive>Pharaoh>>My Maps). However, please
PHARAOH: A NEW ERA - NEW HOTFIX 1.4.1 LIVE2023-08-29Greetings 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: https://twitter.com/Triskell_Int https://twitter.com/Dotemu http://www.facebook.com/PharaohNewEra https://www.tiktok.com/@dotemugames_ Follow Louis Godart on Twitter: https://twitter.com/louisgodart How about checking his Soundcloud? https://soundcloud.com/lgodart/khepera 👾Catch us on Discord: https://discord.gg/ph
NEW UPDATE 1.4.0 AVAILABLE ON PHARAOH: A NEW ERA2023-08-16Greetings 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 structures now trigger a defensive zone around them Surrounding a zone with defensive structures protects it entirely Civil buildings located in a defensive zone cannot be destroyed in the aftermath of a battle All invasions now trigger a round of destruc
PHARAOH: A NEW ERA - 1.3.0 HOTFIX2023-06-08Greetings 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 all for playing Pharaoh: A New Era. As well, you can share your feedback using Steam's Feedback & Suggestion subforum. May your reign be prosperous! -The Pharaoh: A New Era Team Keep up with the latest news on Pharaoh: A New Era by following: https://twitte
PHARAOH: A NEW ERA - NEW PATCH 1.3.0 AVAILABLE NOW2023-06-06Greetings 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. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1351080/Pharaoh_A_New_Era/ NEW OVERLAYS NEW - Three more overlays added Bazar overlay - displays food access to houses Magistrate overlay - displays courthouses access to houses Problems - displays various problems in your city : Risk of life, collapse, crime, disease, and malaria No road access Buildings’ entry & exits that are not connected No access to the workforce No raw materi
PHARAOH: A NEW ERA - NEW PATCH 1.2.0 AVAILABLE NOW2023-04-05Greetings 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, please provide your feedback in the Technical Support forum so we can help you. Balancing As the way to play the game has changed a lot in almost 24 years, neighborhoods tend to be generally more optimized than what the original team intended, generati
PHARAOH: A NEW ERA - 1.1.1 HOTFIX2023-03-27Greetings 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. You can upload them through Google Drive or Wetransfer and share the link with us. We want to thank you all for playing Pharaoh: A New Era. Feel free to share your feedback using Steam's Feedback & Suggestion subforum. We're doing our best to gather everythi
PHARAOH: A NEW ERA – NEW PATCH 1.1.0 AVAILABLE NOW!2023-03-21Greetings, 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 bindings: ‘F’ & ‘G’ are used by default - can be modified in the game setting) Mini-map also displays the different food available in the mission. Balancing: Regrowth of trees and reeds is now calculated every month based on resources gathered and no longer total
PHARAOH: A NEW ERA - WORDS FROM THE DEVS #42023-03-09Greetings 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 our improvement plans to the next level. We'll be forever grateful to the community for being so supportive and helping us to take things further for the sake of Pharaoh: A New Era. Now, let’s get back to the mini-map. An important and highly-requested
PHARAOH: A NEW ERA – NEW PATCH AVAILABLE NOW2023-02-27Greetings 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 longer causes a malus in city sentiment if only part of the population is taxed (more balance updates are coming for city sentiment). Serabit Khadim is now properly invaded by Canaanites instead of Pharaoh's army. The proper briefing now plays in Cleopatra's Alexa
PHARAOH: A NEW ERA - WORDS FROM THE DEVS #32023-02-22Greetings 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 regarding the lack of mini-map but also native ultrawide support. Today, we can confirm that we started working on both features that will provide a better player experience. Regarding the military system, we need more time to investigate and consider al
PHARAOH: A NEW ERA - 1.0 HOTFIX2023-02-17Greetings 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. “Blessing of the Gods” achievement now doesn’t unlock by simply pressing the “A” key. Fixed a few localization keys that didn’t display the proper text. Fixed Gatehouses sorting. We'd like to thank you all for playing and sharing your first thoughts about Pharaoh: A New E
PHARAOH: A NEW ERA IS AVAILABLE NOW!2023-02-15Greetings Pharaohs, The team is pleased to announce that Pharaoh: A New Era is available now on Steam as we speak! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1351080/Pharaoh_A_New_Era/ 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 about Pharaoh, Pharaoh: A New Era is the remake of the original game released in 1999. Our remake includes: 📜53 missions and hundreds of hours of gameplay and fun 📜Campaign (split into six d
PHARAOH: A NEW ERA - GAMEPLAY OVERVIEW & USEFUL TIPS2023-02-07Greetings 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. This cult classic provided an unforgettable memory to generations of players and narrated 4,000 years of the history of Ancient Egypt through six different ages. To make sure that players who have never played the original Pharaoh game feel comfortable
PHARAOH: A NEW ERA LAUNCHES FEB 15, 2023!2023-01-25Greetings 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 Louis Godart Modern graphics Improved mechanics and fresh user interface Will the map editor mode be available at launch? We initially planned to release the map editor mode at launch. However, to make sure that you get the best experience possible, we decided to pos