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Ara: History Untold

Featuring both familiar and innovative new gameplay mechanics, Ara: History Untold delivers an evolution in turn-based historical grand strategy.

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Coming Autumn 2024

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IT’S YOUR WORLD NOW

Build a nation and lead your people throughout history to the pinnacles of human achievement as you explore new lands, develop arts and culture, conduct diplomacy, and go head-to-head with your rivals to prove you are the greatest ruler ever known. It's Your World Now.

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Game features

Overhead views of a jungle, snowy mountains, a savannah, and a river basin.

Explore an immersive living world

Witness the world come to life as citizens move throughout the world and react dynamically to times of health and sickness, war and peace and wealth and despair with unique biomes, cultures, and eras that represent the diversity of the human experience.

Overhead views of a jungle, snowy mountains, a savannah, and a river basin.

Explore an immersive living world

Witness the world come to life as citizens move throughout the world and react dynamically to times of health and sickness, war and peace and wealth and despair with unique biomes, cultures, and eras that represent the diversity of the human experience.

The city menu of a Mexican civilization.

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 - with a global variety of the greatest architectural Triumphs ever built by human hands.

A knight leader sets up their kingdom.

Rule your way

Choose history’s most influential figures to reshape the world. Ara’s global Leaders and Nations offer varied playstyles. Experiment with Traits and Leader Abilities based on their historical impact which informs their distinct AI personalities.

Two players make their moves at the same time.

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.

Two players make their moves at the same time.

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.

The new technology menu above the world map.

Lead your people through eras of discovery

Progress your Nation through twelve unique Technology Eras by nurturing your people's brilliance and invention. Decide where to focus your Nation's greatest minds and how fast to push scientists towards the future, at the risk of the present.

Game details

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.

Join the Ara History: Untold Insider Program today! As an Insider you’ll join a passionate community of strategy game fans that receive exclusive updates, invitations to provide feedback, and opportunities to play the game before it is released. Sign up today at arahistoryuntold.com.

Additional information

Publisher

Xbox Game Studios

Developer

Oxide Games

Genre

Grand Strategy

Platforms

Windows 10/11

Release date

2024

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