Ara: History Untold Review

Ara: History Untold reviewed on PC by Leana Hafer.

While Ara: History Untold is a visually captivating historical 4X with an interesting underlying economy, it gets bogged down well before the midway point, mainly because it doesn’t provide enough tools and UI support to manage all of the things it expects you to manage. Your choice of leader, religion, and government almost always simply add uninteresting passive modifiers, which means most playthroughs will feel roughly the same other than the layout of the map itself. I had a pretty decent time with my march through the ages, especially in the first of its three acts. But it did require me to eventually give up on trying to play optimally, passing turns without doing anything until I emerged victorious. A lot of these systems are exciting and clever in their design – they're just not that enjoyable to interact with past a certain point.

#IGN #Gaming

[KeimpeJ]

My god the performance of the game in this review is suboptimal.

[Mozzillest]

tbh the rollout on this game was so secretive, very rarely showing long stretches of gameplay or strategy breakdowns that we've come to expect as the norm with the strategy genre (Firaxis, Paradox, Amplitude, etc.) that it had to be bad

[sweskey]

Feels like the developers might have taken a few too many notes from grand strategy games in their efforts to stand out from Civilization.

[stonekeep]

People will never be happy with IGN scores. When they give 8-9, people cry that it's too high. When they give 5-6, people cry that it's too low. When they give 7, people meme about IGN rating everything 7.

[marcus]

It looks good close up...but something about the desgin choice zoomed out looks early 2000s to me for some reason.

[itznuk]

You always sound so uninterested in reviewing games, like its truly a chore for you

[america]

Love the gameplay to this game, it’s like civilization but so much more to it ! Very impressed with 3 hours of gameplay.

[YinYangTheWanderer]

The fact that nations fall off without being otherwise conquered or absorbed is what makes this a no go for me.

[Damiantitan]

Why would Poland have Copernicus for a leader ... it's like United States having Neil deGrasse Tyson..

[kro]

Just disable v-sync. It doesn't tear anyway. Once they fix the v-sync bug it's likely the performance will be better with it turned on.

[rustycrw]

Jesus, could the dude sound less interested?

[nickmcdaniel]

Been keeping my eye on this one. It looks genuinely sick & a solid competitor to CIV

[TheMazzGamerBR]

he is playing on a 4070 super and the game seems to be like 20-15 fps, can this guy be playing on integrated graphics?

[xxsmasherxx]

I’ll be waiting impatiently for this to come to console.

[xSavedSoulx]

What would y'all rate this dude's voice from 1 to 10?

[KilliK]

a 6 from IGN as it was to be expected. now we are waiting for a 7 for the upcoming Indiana Jones game. and an 8 when it is released on PS. write this down.

[Jeremy-am]

This is crushing me right now 😪 I'm crushed. I've been so excited for this game for a year 😵‍💫

[PatrickConway-me]

The fact that they gave the new Star Wars game a higher score than this speaks volumes about IGN.

[dae]

Can you use a more depressed tone please ? Wth

[migi]

ITs a beautiful complex game, ign reviews suk.