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Pharaoh™: A New Era
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Pharaoh™: A New Era

Feb 15, 2023 Steam: Mostly Positive

Give it 3 hours

Gets good by 3h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 10h rated like by long-time players
Reach the ending 4% of players who started
Started playing 73% of owners
Steam reviews 75% positive of 5,426

What the data shows

When it gets good

Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.

before it gets good opening up fully opened up

Based on all 5,475 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 298 reviews: 18.8h for positive, 9.2h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.

Where players quit

Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (73% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.

  1. Started playing 100%
  2. Village Elder Pre-Dynastic Period completed 87% −13
  3. Royal Scholar Archaic Period completed Most players quit here 48% −39
  4. Chancellor Old Kingdom completed 20% −28
  5. Vizier Middle Kingdom completed 12% −9
  6. Pharaoh New Kingdom completed 8% −3
  7. Kanakht Tutmesut Valley of the Kings completed 7% −1
  8. Ozymandias Ramses II completed 6% −1
  9. Great Ancestor Ancient Conquerors completed 6%
  10. Queen of the Nile Cleopatra's Capital completed 4% −2

story milestone ending biggest drop-off

Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.

All achievements (47)

story milestone ending side

  • Blessing of the Gods You got all the different blessings. 100%
  • Village Elder Pre-Dynastic Period completed 87%
  • No road, no problem Have a cartpusher go cross country 78%
  • A pile of piles of bricks You built your first Mastaba 66%
  • Negoce Make 10,000 debens of profit during a single year from trade alone 54%
  • Royal Scholar Archaic Period completed 48%
  • Music to build Pyramids by 10,000 musicians have roamed your cities 31%
  • Fire in the disco One of your Fire Stations collapsed in flames 30%
  • Overkill Deliver 4 different types of food to a Meager Shanty 27%
  • Wrath of the Gods You got at least one wrath from each of the 5 gods 26%
  • Happy Disaster Have Seth's Wrath destroy your navy while you have no navy 24%
  • Useless Benefits Get a perfect flood blessing from Osiris with no farm built on the floodplain 21%
  • Chancellor Old Kingdom completed 20%
  • I'm all ears Listen to 100 citizens 19%
  • Alchemist Buy Clay to sell Pottery, Barley to sell Beer, Reeds to sell Papyrus, Flax to sell Linen and Gems to sell Jewelry at the same time 18%
  • Oasis in the desert 10,000 population in the city 17%
  • You Must Build a Boat You built 100 different boats 16%
  • Methuselah One of your citizens reached 100 years of age (and died) 15%
  • Rends l'argent ! Pay yourself above your rank 10 years in a row 15%
  • King Midas Make 1,000,000 debens from your gold mines 12%
  • Vizier Middle Kingdom completed 12%
  • Food for thoughts Only provide your citizens with imported food in a city and reach 5,000 inhabitants 11%
  • Pharaoh New Kingdom completed 8.1%
  • Kanakht Tutmesut Valley of the Kings completed 7.0%
  • Ozymandias Ramses II completed 6.2%
  • A pile of piles of piles of bricks You built 10 Mastabas 6.2%
  • One for the collection Build every monument in the game at least once 6.2%
  • Balanced Diet Supply every inhabitant of your city with 4 different types of food (population >5,000) 6.0%
  • Great Ancestor Ancient Conquerors completed 5.8%
  • Bacchanalia Throw a lavish festival for the same god every year for 10 years 5.2%
  • Plebeians, plebeians everywhere! Your unemployment rate went over 50 % with a population over 5,000 inhabitants 4.7%
  • This is not Caesar III Reach Palatial Estates without ever placing a single roadblock in the city 4.0%
  • Queen of the Nile Cleopatra's Capital completed 3.8%
  • A long thorn in the side of the Nile Have the causeway for a pyramid complex be at least 50 tiles long 3.8%
  • The Way of the Architect All campaign monument-focused missions completed 3.2%
  • Edifis Watch an Architect's Post collapse 2.6%
  • Backyard view Have a (finished!) pyramid completely surrounded by houses 2.6%
  • Social Ladder Have at least one of each of the 20 levels of houses in your city at the same time 2.2%
  • The Way of the Warrior All campaign combat-focused missions completed 2.1%
  • The internet is for cats Have 100 shrines, 30 staffed temples and one temple complex dedicated to Bast in your city 1.5%
  • The Path of Progress Build 100,000 roads 1.4%
  • Ride now, ride now, ride! Ride for ruin and the world's ending! Start a battle with 6 full charioteers companies and crush your enemies 1.4%
  • Immortal Cities Run a city for 100 years without ever dropping below 10,000 population 0.8%
  • Ruler on the side All standard custom missions completed 0.5%
  • This is the way All missions completed 0.5%
  • Quench your thirst Supply 10,000 people with only one Water Supply for a year 0.5%
  • Organized Mess Reach Palatial Estates with bazaars only distributing one resource at a time 0.4%
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