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During today’s Xbox Developer Direct, Oxide Games revealed new details about its upcoming strategy title, Ara: History Untold. According to the developers, the new game launches in fall 2024 for PC and Game Pass on PC.
Developers aimed to expand the strategy genre, offering a living world for players to explore and experiment. Ara also delves into new areas of history from Oxide’s other games, as well as new gameplay mechanics. The “leaders” in Ara are not just military figures, but a diverse group of historical figures, each offering benefits based on their contributions to real history.
Oxide promotes Ara’s new “Prestige” system, allowing players to choose their advancement to new Ages of gameplay, as well as the types of technology and knowledge to pursue.
Ara also includes a crafting system, requiring players to use available resources to build up their civilization. The game features a new turn system, where all player turns are resolved simultaneously, eliminating periods of player inaction while waiting on others, according to Oxide.
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