The Next Total War Game Has Been Announced

After wrapping up their Warhammer trilogy successful nan astir blockbuster measurement possible, Creative Assembly person conscionable announced a marque caller Total War crippled based connected nan worldly nan bid made its sanction on: existent quality history. And this clip we’re going backmost to ancient Egypt.

The adjacent crippled is called Total War: Pharaoh, and is group during nan Bronze Age Collapse, a play conscionable complete 3000 years ago that saw nan civilizations of nan Near East, North Africa and Europe person a very bad time.

Here’s nan game’s debut trailer:

Since that’s incredibly ray connected existent Total War details (and gameplay shots/footage), we’ve sewage to caput to nan game’s Steam page (and this FAQ) for much info. Seems location will beryllium 8 leaders you tin take from, ranging from Egyptians to Anatolians to Canaanites, arsenic good arsenic customisable run options for illustration nan expertise to randomise commencement locations.

Interestingly, it appears that, contempt nan anticipation for immoderate supernatural, Mummy-adjacent magic, this crippled is playing it wholly straight. That’s nan first clip Total War has done that successful a long time; nan Warhammer games were evidently afloat of chaotic shit, Troy leaned into mythology and even nan past awesome humanities release, Three Kingdoms, had its adjacent stock of nan fantastic.

That’s not to opportunity that akin effects won’t beryllium coming here. Instead of having magic alteration nan consciousness of a battle, Pharaoh is introducing a much move upwind strategy to nan game, wherever alternatively of battles taking spot nether pre-determined conditions things tin alteration wildly successful nan mediate of an encounter, arsenic 1 infinitesimal nan sun is sparkling and nan adjacent you’re being minced successful nan mediate of a sandstorm (the crippled will besides person move fires that tin pain down cities successful municipality battles, and torrential storms arsenic well).

One large mobility near unanswered by nan game’s uncover is...just really large is it, exactly? The scheduling demands of nan bid person meant that complete nan past decade Total War development has been divided betwixt larger, full-scale releases for illustration Three Kingdoms and nan Warhammer games, while successful betwixt smaller titles for illustration Troy and Thrones of Britannia person dropped.

Just wherever Pharaoh lies betwixt these is an important question, because nan second games—given nan “Saga” branding to denote they were smaller titles—were not great, and kinda poisoned that explanation arsenic a trading point. Yet this game, contempt launching pinch a afloat value (it’s sewage an rrp of $60), seems... I dunno, smaller successful standard than a full-bodied Total War would be? Especially since location are only 3 factions playable astatine launch.

We’ll find retired soon enough; nan crippled is retired successful October connected PC.