2026-06-11 20:23 UTC · Community Announcements · Ara: History Untold
Ara: History Untold v2.1 Update Adds National Crafting Policy System, Now AvailableUpdate addresses the most-requested change since launch by letting players set their empire's crafting priorities at the nation levelView the ChangelogThe v2.1 Update for Ara: History Untold is now out, introducing a new National Crafting Policy System that addresses the most-common piece of player feedback since launch: managing crafting across a large empire took too long. With v2.1, players set their empire's crafting priorities once at the nation level, and every crafter follows the policy automatically. The
2026-03-18 18:52 UTC · Community Announcements · Ara: History Untold
v2.1 Update Available in PreviewA new national crafting system, 27 culture traits, religious verses, and moreView the Changelog The v2.1 preview build is now available on Steam. This update brings a new national crafting system, 27 culture traits, new religious verses, and a handful of balance and stability improvements. National Crafting Policy SystemManaging crafting across a growing empire just got a lot easier. The new national crafting policy system lets you set priority tiers and quota targets for recipes at the nation level. All your crafters will automatically follow the policy, so you
2026-01-29 18:00 UTC · Community Announcements · Ara: History Untold
Long time no see! Sorry about that. Happy New Year!The sausage factory behind the scenes means that there are often multiple projects happening simultaneously. The Oxide team is busy working towards having a beta version of their near-future RTS: Ashes of the Singularity II. Do me a favor and wishlist that please! If you like strategy games, especially ones with a strong single player effort, and that focus on strategy instead of click speed, you’ll probably like it.A lot of the Stardock time has been finishing up on the remaster of the fantasy 4X series, Elemental (War of Magic + Fallen Encha
2025-12-18 19:14 UTC · Community Announcements · Ara: History Untold
50% off Ara: History Untold and DLCAra: 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 choic
2025-10-30 18:49 UTC · Community Announcements · Ara: History Untold
The latest update introduces significant balance changes, tooltip improvements, and technical fixes.View the Full Changelog Below The latest update for Ara: History Untold, v2.02 has been released, bringing a variety of adjustments aimed at enhancing gameplay and stability.Culture & Traits UpdatesSeveral Culture Traits have been rebalanced to improve their strategic distinctiveness. Key changes include increased influence for Field Distinction, as well as raised culture bonuses for Victory Parades and Solitary Brilliance. The Celebrated Empire trait has been adjusted, reducing its culture bonu
2025-09-25 15:38 UTC · PCGamesN · editor@pcgamesn.com
As the name suggests, Ara: History Untold 2.0 is a full-scale rebirth for the Civ challenger built by Oxide Games and Xbox Game Studios. The 'Revolutions' update is its biggest since launch, incorporating a full culture system with more than 40 unlockable traits. It also overhauls the way leaders and factions work to make each feel more distinct, and introduces some smart ways to strip out much of the busywork of city micromanagement. If you played Ara at launch, it's a great chance to come back, and if you skipped it originally but are looking for a historical alternative to Civ 7, now's the
2025-09-25 15:29 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun
A year on from its debut, would-be challenger to Civ's 4X strategy throne Ara: History Untold has gotten what looks like its most substantial overhaul yet. So substantial that its developers are hailing this Revolutions update as the arrival of Ara version 2.0, in the same tone of voice you might use for someone who's gotten a swanky new hairdo. While the base version had a fair few hangups, the Xbox folks who're keen to see Ara stand the test of time have pushed plenty of updates and tweaks for it since then. Current developers Stardock Entertainment and Oxide Games, aimed to wipe out a numbe
2025-09-24 16:55 UTC · Community Announcements · Ara: History Untold
Ara: History Untold - The ambitious historical strategy game celebrates its first anniversary by adding nation specific units, unique leader traits, cultural conquest, AI updates and much more with the v2.0 Revolutions UpdateView Full Changelog Stardock Entertainment and Oxide Games, in partnership with Xbox Game Studios, released Ara: History Untold – Version 2.0 today. The Revolutions Update is a massive expansion of new features and content.Informed by community feedback, the Revolutions Update adds a new Culture and Influence System, gives each nation its own unique unit, gives greater pla
2025-09-24 16:55 UTC · Community Announcements · Ara: History Untold
Welcome BackFirst, apologies for breaking save games. We even had to break the Preview save games to add the new map generation system for 2.0!Second, wow! I hope you guys like what we’ve done here. Since the original Sid Meier’s Civilization was first released in 1991, there have only been a handful of strategy games that have attempted to take the player through all of human history. It’s hard. I bet you, reading this right now, know something of this. Ara: History Untold not only shows off how military technology progresses, but also how the quality of life of people changed based on what G
2025-09-18 17:00 UTC · Community Announcements · Ara: History Untold
Version 2.0 keeps players in control without the overwhelming micromanagement.The crafting queue is gone.The crafting quotas and priorities system is in.It is very straightforward:Set how much of a thing you wantDecide what priority it has, if any, of the things the crafter can build.There is no step 3.This lets you set your nation up as a well-oiled machine. Once you set it up, you will never be interrupted with a “crafter idle” message again because they are never idle – unless you want them to be due to having enough of whatever item they were crafting and you want those resources to go els
2025-09-11 19:00 UTC · Community Announcements · Ara: History Untold
Culture & Influence in HistorySoft Power. Strategy games favor focusing on warfare, but culture and influence have mattered far more in shaping the world. While this may seem, to some, to be a change in the post-World War II era, it has been true going all the way back to the Bronze Age: culture and influence matter.Civilization IV lead designer Soren Johnson made cultural influence a major focus of Civ IV, forever changing 4X strategy games. In fact, when we teamed up to make Offworld Trading Company, we wanted to make a game in which you had to achieve your ends using what amounts to culture
2025-09-10 21:57 UTC · PCGamesN · editor@pcgamesn.com
Last year, Ara: History Untold came out, providing a new entry to the historical strategy genre. In the time since, similar projects have also launched, Civilization 7 most noteworthy among them, and Ara has seemed to come and go without garnering much fanfare. With Civilization 7 a bit of a disappointment and games like Europa Universalis 5 still a little way off, Ara looks to be in a good position to capture new attention with the announcement of its massive, wide-ranging 2.0 update, Revolutions. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Underappreciated 4X game Ara History Untold just go
2025-09-10 14:00 UTC · Community Announcements · Ara: History Untold
Ara: History Untold v2.0 Revolutions Update Expands Historical Strategy Through Culture and InfluenceAmbitious historical strategy game prepares for first anniversary by adding nation specific units, unique leader traits, cultural conquest, AI updates and much moreStardock Entertainment and Oxide Games, in partnership with Xbox Game Studios, announced Ara: History Untold – Version 2.0 today. Dubbed the Revolutions Update, version 2.0 is a massive expansion of new features and content.Informed by community feedback, the Revolutions Update adds a new Culture and Influence System, gives each nati
2025-09-04 14:30 UTC · Community Announcements · Ara: History Untold
The Truth about AI in PC Strategy GamesMultiplayer will not save your game.Strategy games must have computer opponents as a first-class game mode. They aren’t there to be “practice bots”. Even in games that are allegedly “multiplayer-centric”, fewer than 20% of players will press the multiplayer button, let alone actually play it.Yet many strategy games just handwave, putting in interesting computer opponents. You, reading this, know the folly of that, and yet they still do it. Why?There are two main reasons why computer strategy games tend to have bad computer opponents:The game design kept c
2025-08-28 14:30 UTC · Community Announcements · Ara: History Untold
How do you make nations more unique?When we began discussing Ara: History Untold 2.0, we asked: how do you make 40 different civilizations feel genuinely unique while maintaining strategic balance?The answer went deeper than a few superficial differences. We discovered that giving players ways to leverage systems and explore new tactics yielded the most rewarding experiences. Distinctive traits and unique units give Nations personality and don’t just challenge the player to find new routes to victory, but to be on the lookout for their opponents' approaches.This journal documents our journey t
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