I'M ACTUALLY SHOCKED | TOTAL WAR PHARAOH DYNASTIES REVIEW

It is actually crazy what CA Sofia has done with Total War Pharaoh, because at this point, the game is - finally - fantastic, and has truly come into its own. From the dynastic features to the entirely new regions, pantheons, units, major and minor factions, lethality and more, there are so many new features in Pharaoh I absolutely love, and I really feel like we've finally gotten the Bronze Age Total War game Pharaoh should and could have been on launch.

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[AndysTake]

UPDATE! The weak general health was actually a bug, and has been fixed for launch! 🎉

[penzorphallos]

Pharaoh is probably the only glimmer of hope for 'historical' tw fans. It is also great to see ca take into account their failures and have free content updates. Fans are fickle but goodwill earns you loyalty.

[thelineguy]

Pharaoh being originally released in its original state has nothing to do with delays, it was explicitly because CA thought they could get away with cutting out a ton of stuff to trickle into content later. Sofia voiced their displeasure at that, but did the best they could, and were luckily given the opportunity to redeem Pharaoh with the Dynasties update.

[RogueRanks]

Even just seeing a family tree UI makes me smile, historical fans have been suffering for so long even that is refreshing. Amazing review!

[readmymind]

Not only are they giving us such a massive free dlc but they have put the base game on sale as well.
They are truly trying to make it up to the fans by listening to suggestions and constructively taking criticism. I have seen nothing but overwhelming support from the fanbase in return.

Well done Sofia 👏🏻 well done.

[brandt]

Honestly, this is how you regain respect and loyalty from customers. They not only improved the game during a time when most devs would have just written it off as a failure and loss, but they also made the game cheaper and the updates free. What more could you ask for? Excellent job, CA. For that, you have earned my dollars.

[legionofrome]

Bronze era is such an underrated era and I still think the only reason people say it is a boring era is wrong. it was just the quality of the game that let them down.

[SeaIify]

Not gonna lie, and I thought I would never say this, but I'm genuinely excited for Pharaoh now.

I didn't hate it when it came out, but I was on the... "This is just TROY, but with Egyptians. Pass" kind of wagon bit they've been adding more and more stuff and with the next update it honestly looks promising.

Sure, is far from perfect, but all things considered, this looks legitimately appealing for me now.

[mikemcguinness]

Everything CA have done in the last few months has convinced me to pick up Pharaoh and give Dynasties a try.

[Filip_Agrippa]

Pharaoh felt like a DLC for a bigger game, something similar to Charlemagne.

[IslamistSocialist]

damn, finally. a decent historical total war since 2018

[quimble]

I won’t lie, Pharaohs launch gave me a severe distrust of TW YouTubers. I’ll give it a couple weeks before i start properly listening to them, because when pharoah launched it took a couple weeks before they started calling out the issues.

[roguewasbanned]

Sad they can’t have better ai so that chariots don’t charge head first into heavy spearmen. It’s not that hard. If I can edit a text file and make it so cavalry doesn’t charge into pikes in med2 (2005) then CA can do the little things to make the ai that much more competent.

[Lekirius]

Wow! The city just outside the battlefield limit is something from way back in Rome 1!

[GothPaoki]

I don't think waiting for a year would change anything for it's release. Game had problems other than little time.

It's the backlash that activated ca to put resources into it instead of trying to scam their customers charging 60 for a dlc.

[Raguel]

Was actually hoping for this update, because as much fun as total war warhammer is, we fell in love with the historical total wars and how many times can we play attila? xD

[zack]

I really wish they could add/or someone could mod the Aryan factions. I mean the Iranian plateau was home to hundreds of civilizations, and it's currently empty. The Bronze age shares a lot of similarities with the Dark Ages (Attila), where all sorts of tribes and peoples were migrating to new lands.

[diegosolis]

They didn't wait because of greed.
They are doing this not because they suddenly started to care about the games again, they are doing this because investing this extra money is cheaper than letting their original investment go to waste, they HAD to stick with the game. And trust me, Dynasties would've been DLC had the base game not under performed to badly.

[brandonzzz]

Thanks for sharing Andy, and also for mentioning some of the things Pharaoh still needs to work on. Lethality sounds like a great new feature, and I am excited to try out the dynastic policies with one of my favorite TW economic systems borrowed from Troy.
It is astonishing to me that CA greenlit a free DLC that is twice the size of the base game, and I am waiting in anticipation after freeing room on my drive to buy this game solely from your review in this video (feel free to use this sale to persuade CA to officially sponsor you). I really hope this dlc does well enough that CA starts working on Empire 2, but at least we have a shiny new game that actually works until then...

[killerins]

At least this review is so much better and accurate and in depth which is so much better than the hate TheTerminator spewing out without going into details.