Ara: History Untold
- Visually captivating with animated towns and cities
- Procedurally-generated worlds are enthralling
- Interesting underlying goods-based manufacturing economy
- Different approach to futuristic era with focus on general AI, transhumanism, and cybernetics
Pros
- Lack of tools and UI support for managing the complex mechanics
- Underwhelming bonuses for historical leaders
- Nonsensical road-building
- Performance issues on larger map sizes
- Lack of architectural variety based on era and civilization
- Overwhelming and tedious management of economy in the late game
- Automatic combat with limited tactical decision-making
- Knockout mechanic and diplomacy may lack depth and complexity
- Government, religion, and advisers add uninteresting passive modifiers
Cons