Pharaoh was a 1999 city builder that tasked you with building, maintaining and protecting an ancient Egyptian metropolis. Developed by Impressions Games, the studio responsible for Caesar 3 and Zeus, it had some neat features: the Nile river factored heavily into your town planning decisions, and it even had naval battles.Now that game is getting a modern remake. Pharaoh: A New Era was announced today at Gamescom 2020, and it's no simple up-res. As the trailer above demonstrates, studio Triskell Interactive is remaking the original from scratch: it'll support 4K, and the gameplay itself will be renovated to fit modern standards. Like the original, there's a campaign mode with upwards of 50 missions taking place over 4,000 years, and there's a map and mission editor, too. The 2000 expansion Cleopatra: Queen of the Nile will be built into the game, and there's a free build mode, if you want to relax and just make something pretty.
