Release Date: September 24, 2024
A 4X turn-based strategy by Oxide Interactive. Ara: History Untold tasks us with leading our chosen nation through different ages, discovering and conquering new territory, developing culturally and technologically, and handling warfare.
Ara: History Untold is a 4X turn-based strategy game by Oxide Interactive. The team was founded by some former employees of Firaxis Games, responsible for the bestselling Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation expansion, as well as proprietary technology used in the Star Swarm tech demo.
Ara: History Untold is a top-down game. The player leads their chosen nation, needing to lead it to a bright future through different ages. We can play as a historical figure, like Safona, Nefertiti or George Washington, or create our own custom leader.
Our main tasks are to discover and capture new territories while acquiring valuable resources. The latter are needed to build structures granting new abilities and strategic bonuses, letting us grow technologically, unlocking new goods, resources and upgrades. We must also take care of art, culture and establish relationships with our neighbors, trading or entering alliances. In case diplomacy fails, we need a powerful army to field. Though the scale of the game is huge, we mustn't forget about individual citizens, all of which have unique personalities and stories.
The game doesn't feature predetermined victory paths, with it being up to us how we'll dominate other nations. Together with procedurally generated maps and challenges, this makes each playthrough different than the last. Speaking of maps - we'll get to conquer tropical jungles, vast deserts, beautiful valleys and towering mountains.
Ara: History Untold runs on the studio's proprietary Nitrous Engine. Its graphical capabilities are rather impressive, making the maps extremely detailed.
Platforms:
PC Windows
Developer: Oxide Interactive
Publisher: Xbox Game Studios / Microsoft Studios
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Humankind, Old World and Ara: History Untold are unlikely to knock Civilization off the 4X strategy throne (even together). Nonetheless, the recent changes and new features in these titles have won praise from players.
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Jacob Blazewicz
March 10, 2025
Oxide Interactive studio has revealed the highly anticipated trailer for Ara: History Untold. At the Xbox Developer_Direct, we also learned the release date for this 4X strategy.
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Maciej Gaffke
January 18, 2024
Ara: History Untold, the debut work of Oxide Interactive, which will compete with the Civilization series and items like Humankind, has lived to see its first gameplay.
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Christian Pieniazek
August 22, 2023
Historical 4X strategy game Ara: History Untold, hailed as a rival to Civilization 6, has suffered a delay.
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Hubert Sledziewski
July 31, 2023
Announced the day before yesterday, Ara: History Untold seems to be the next significant competitor to Civilization. The game will offer, among other things, the ability to create your own commander.
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Miriam Moszczynska
June 14, 2022
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System Requirements for Ara: History Untold Video Game:
PC / Windows
Minimum System Requirements:
Intel Core i5-5300U / AMD Ryzen 5 2400G, 8 GB RAM, graphic card 4 GB GeForce GTX 970 / Radeon RX 480, 50 GB HDD, Windows 10 64-bit.
Recommended System Requirements:
Intel Core i5-6400 / AMD Ryzen 5 3600, 16 GB RAM, graphic card 11 GB GeForce GTX 1080 Ti / 8 GB Radeon RX Vega 64, 50 GB HDD, Windows 10/11 64-bit.
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Expansion
June 18, 2025
Strategy
The first expansion for the 4X turn-based strategy from 2024. Ara: History Untold - Untold Scenarios offers a numbers of unique missions. They allow us to take part in important moments from the human history, or to check out the alternative course of events.
Game Ratings for Ara: History Untold Video Game.
GamingTrend: 75 / 100 by David Burdette
Ara: History Untold tweaks the Civilization formula, but doesn't change it all that much. While it's a well polished experience, I'm not sure it does enough to push the genre forward, settling instead to do what it does well. That said, good strategy games can be hard to find, and Ara is a good one in a crowded field.
Console Creatures: 8 / 10 by Luke Williams
2024 is the year of the RTS, and Ara: History Untold is worthy of being among the very best of them. While it's not reinventing the wheel in of presentation, the simultaneous actions taking place in a more significant turn threaten to turn this game into a pure RTS strategy game; it allows for a game larger than anything that predates it.
GRYOnline.pl: 6.5 / 10 by Przemysław Dygas
I’m certain that many fans of Civilization will quickly abandon playing ARA: History Untold. No Civ demands such careful consideration of the smallest details and micro-dependancies from the player. You need to ask yourself: do you want to conquer lands or manage the production of cement and ploughs? If the latter sounds interesting, you’re right where you need to be.
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