Probably the most difficult game of the old city-building genre.

This game will test your city-management skills to the limit. In the later missions, you'll be asked to build a giant pyramid while fending off enemy armies while having to manage an economy that requires you to import most of the raw materials in a land that is 3/4 desert, therefore barely any space to get water from.

I hate the fact that when cities make food requests, they want a specific type of food. Even if in middle of a famine, they'd rather starve to death than eat something that is not Chickpeas.

I played this back in the day, without the Cleopatra expansion. The larger pyramids are super time-consuming to build, so be thankful that the expansions adds an option to speed up monument construction using blessings. Make sure to turn that on if you don't want to be like me who stopped twice after Itjtawy because I couldn't be bothered anymore.

Oh well, at least I became Pharaoh.

I have been playing this game since 2010. While it can be very overwhelming, it is an easy slide into old 4x games

i love this game its one of the best games of its time