Ara: History Untold

Ara: History Untold
IGN

Critic score: 6

Roboscore: 5

    Pros
  • 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
    Cons
  • 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