
This game gets a 9 for the few bugs this game contains, which are irritating but not world-ending.

I must buy for any city-building lover, Egyptophile or classic game collector. Throw in a flavourful soundtrack and a diverse array of scenarios and missions and you have the best $2 I have ever spent on steam. Of course, you will be building an awful lot of pyramids, obelisks and steles to immortalize yourself, mighty Pharaoh, and cement the legacy of your lineage. Soldiers, shop-keepers, peasants and elites all demand an opportunity to pray to the Gods and Goddesses which best represent their needs, while everyone will want to worship Amun, Osiris and Hathor the Universal deities whose festivals were paramount to most Egyptian cultures. Every person in your settlement is represented in the game and has unique needs, most notably religious needs. Like Ancient Egypt, religion plays a key role in the game, with a rich and diverse pantheon of true-to-life Egyptian Gods and Goddesses to be honoured by Temples and Shrines. The only currency is the only one that truly mattered in the ancient world food. The mechanics are distinct, with the three "Seasons" revolving entirely upon the flooding of the Nile. As an ancient Egyptian simulation, this game is a unique city-simulation concept with excellent execution and historical accuracy. I pride myself in digging up golden PC titles that receive little fanfare, and this game is surely one of those. Come, enter your realm: the black land, Egypt. You'll dispatch your armies and navies to all corners of the known world, and erect monuments of splendor, including your own magnificent tomb.


Eventually you will forge the most advanced civilization of the ancient world, achieve works of wonder and build a lasting and unique empire to stand for the ages with you as its personification. You design and build glorious cities in which hundreds of seemingly real people live and work in an interconnected societal web, each facet of their lives played out in vivid detail. You design and build glorious cities in which hundreds of seemingly real Children of the Nile is the next generation of city-building game, where, as Pharaoh, you lead the people of ancient Egypt, uniting them as you elevate your status, striving to become a supreme and god-like ruler.
