Dive into eight compelling scenarios that immerse you deeply into pivotal and speculative moments of human history. From the vast steppes of Mongolia to Europe's Enlightenment, each scenario provides specialized gameplay, meticulously detailed historical context, and thrilling strategic dilemmas that demand your creativity, adaptability, and cunning.

Key Features:

· Historical and Hypothetical Worlds: Experience dramatic, detailed historical contexts and intriguing "what-if" scenarios, each carefully crafted for strategic depth.

· Scenario-Specific Units and Technologies: Master unique units, like the Mongol Horse Archers, Royal Sentinels, or Indigenous Guerrilla fighters, unlocking new tactics tailored to each historical period.

· Strategically Rich Maps: Adapt to dynamic challenges and historically accurate resource distributions that profoundly affect your strategic choices.

Featured Scenarios:

The Mongol Invasion

Conquer without settlement as Genghis Khan using unstoppable Mongol units like Horse Archers and Wallbreakers, bolstered by the powerful "Yassa Doctrine." Or, stand defiant as Catherine the Great of Russia, strategically deploying knights and defenses to halt the relentless Mongol advance.

Bronze Age Collapse

Guide your civilization through the mysterious chaos of 1200 BC, navigating societal breakdowns triggered by droughts, raids, and calamities. Utilize an expanded Bronze Age tech tree, deploying unique units such as Royal Sentinels, Slingers, and Sea Raiders, to keep your people alive amid turmoil.

Europe at the Crossroads

Navigate the dynamic, resource-rich landscape of Enlightenment Europe with legendary leaders like Caesar or Alexander the Great. Begin with extensive Renaissance infrastructure but limited exclusively to advanced, era-specific units, forcing you to strategize carefully in a rapidly evolving historical context.

American Expansion

Face the stark contrasts of the 18th-century Americas. Choose settlers with European technology yet minimal infrastructure, or indigenous nations like the Cherokee, whose efficient guerrilla units grant immediate strategic advantages. Balance the long-term growth of your settlements against immediate tactical necessity.

Clash of Continents

Challenge your adaptability and innovation in a brutally realistic world map reflecting the harsh resource inequalities of 3000 BC. Iconic historical figures like Julius Caesar and Joan of Arc must strategically overcome severe resource shortages, testing every aspect of your strategic ingenuity.

Islands Scenario

Manage isolated island cultures with dramatically distinct resource pools, emphasizing diplomacy and strategic trade. Military might alone won’t secure survival—careful resource management and diplomatic acumen are essential.

Last Survivor (Rome vs. Imperial China)

Engage in an intense, improbable showdown between two ancient empires on a compact, resource-constrained battlefield. Fight fiercely for crucial resources like horses, balancing aggressive tactics with resource-conscious strategies to emerge as the sole survivor.

Terra

Reimagine Earth's geography in a scenario where continents connect differently and horses never vanished from North America. Explore exaggerated continents like Mega Britain and lush Africa, making rapid, impactful strategic decisions from the late Neolithic, reshaping human history in fascinating ways.

Forge a new history, face unparalleled strategic challenges, and rewrite the past—or imagine an entirely new future—in Ara: History Untold – Untold Scenarios DLC.

Build a nation and lead your people throughout history to the pinnacles of human achievement as you explore new lands, develop arts and culture, conduct diplomacy, and go head-to-head with your rivals to prove you are the greatest ruler ever known. It's Your World Now.

The Deluxe Edition Includes
• Ara: History Untold Base Game
• Exclusive Leader Collection – featuring five exclusive leaders not included in the base game including: Charlemagne, Genghis Khan, Yoo Gwan Soon, Hildegard and Boudicca.
• Modern Leader Skin Set – enhance five Ara: History Untold leaders (Elizabeth I, Genghis Khan, Nefertiti, Sappho and George Washington) with the Modern Leader Skin Set, featuring modern versions of their in-game costumes.

With your pre-order of the Deluxe Edition receive the Gilded Leader Skin Set.

Build a nation and lead your people throughout history to the pinnacles of human achievement as you explore new lands, develop arts and culture, conduct diplomacy, and go head-to-head with your rivals to prove you are the greatest ruler ever known. It's Your World Now.

Ara: History Untold is an evolution in historical grand strategy, featuring beloved classic PC strategy mechanics alongside innovative gameplay like a national crafting economy, true simultaneous turn resolution, a non-linear technology tree, and cloud-backed synchronous/asynchronous multiplayer – all with an expansive and vibrant presentation where you can zoom out from surveying the very edges of your empire all the way down to your citizens living their daily lives. In Ara, there are no pre-set paths to victory, leading to endless possibilities. Your choices will define the world you create, your experience, and your legacy.

Explore an Immersive Living World

Explore a dynamic living world filled with life and charm across sweeping landscapes ranging from tropical jungles to sand-swept deserts as you discover the resources you need to develop your nation. Witness the world come to life in vivid, realistic detail as citizens move throughout the world and react dynamically to times of health and sickness, war and peace, wealth and despair with unique biomes, cultures, and eras representing the diversity of human experience.

Build Your Nation

Serve your people and grow your prestige with numerous Improvements, from forges to libraries, citadels to cathedrals, public parks to industrial factories – as well as a global variety of the greatest architectural Triumphs ever conceived and built by human hands.

Guide your people through the eras of human discovery

Nurture your people’s brilliance and invention as you progress your Nation through twelve unique Technology Eras, making the hard choices about where to focus your Nation’s greatest minds. As you near the end of each Era, you’ll have to decide how fast to push your scientists along the path to the future – at the risk of the present.

Oversee a rich and detailed national economy

Harvest the bounty of the natural world and deploy the labor of your people with a depth-filled National Crafting system. Will you manufacture Amenities – like lavish feasts – to provide your cities and citizens with powerful benefits, or invest in the creation of Equipment – the weapons of war – to prepare your Armies to defend your nation or conquer your rivals? Whatever paths you choose you’ll need to carefully optimize your resources and production to achieve the most efficient systems if you want to outpace your rivals to fortune and lasting glory.

Rule Your Way

Choose from dozens of history’s most influential figures to embody as you reshape the world through your choices. The unique and varied global Leaders and Nations in Ara emphasize a wide variety of different playstyles. Experiment with gameplay-impacting Traits and powerful Leader Abilities drawn from the effect they had on world history. Whether friend or foe, each Leader has a distinct personality based on their historical background that informs their AI behaviors.

Experience True Simultaneous Turns

Every turn each nation's actions and choices resolve simultaneously, leading to suspense, anticipation, unique outcomes, and surprising twists on the classic turn-based formula. The fate of your people will be determined by your decisions and your ability to predict your opponent’s next move, putting your skill as a leader to the ultimate test.

Defend your people by land, sea, and air

Warfare in Ara is presented in the Living World, as thousands of years of military conflict reflect the progress and martial prowess of your people. Develop technologies to advance your weaponry against your rivals, hone your wartime economy and industry to gain the edge, and outthink your opponent’s strategies as maneuvers resolve authentically at once thanks to the power of True Simultaneous Turns.

Prove Your Worth in Online Multiplayer

Combining the speed and surprise of True Simultaneous Turns with the power of the cloud – multiplayer in Ara is fast, seamless, and able to be enjoyed asynchronously with a wide range of options to tailor you and your friend’s experience to the way you want to play together.

A Microsoft Account is required to play online multiplayer.