Category Archives: Ara: History Untold

Ara: History Untold – How Oxide survived the “nightmare” of making a simultaneous-turn 4X game

By | October 13, 2023

RockPaperShotgun has published an article called “How Oxide survived the “nightmare” of making a simultaneous-turn 4X game”. This article is obviously about Ara: History Untold, and the devs talk about how it was complcated to organize and prioritize the not-really-turnbased game, including resolution of conflicts and land occupation. If you are curious how 4X game dev pros have… Read More »

Ara: History Untold: Dev Diary, Ep. 06 – Sound Design

By | October 2, 2023

The developers of Ara: History Untold have released another dev diary. This time they talk about sound design, and how e.g. the world is important and interacts with the soundtrack. For our discussion about Ara please check here.

Ara: History Untold | Dev Diary | Ep. 01 – Combat & Armies

By | August 25, 2023

Today, the developers of Ara: History Untold have released a dev diary about how armies and combat works in Ara. Discuss Ara: History Untold with us here.

Ara: History Untold – first gamplay trailer

By | August 23, 2023

Today, the developers of Ara: History Untold have released their first gameplay trailer during the Gamescom, and the gameplay looks definitely interesting. For people who might be undecided about the game, you can try it in 2024 also with the PC Game Pass. Discuss Ara: History Untold with us here.

City Growth in Ara: History Untold

By | August 2, 2023

The developers of Ara: History Untold have posted a blog post on Steam about city growth. They describe how cities grow and expand: You can build new buildings to increase growth, but you also must manage food and other resources to sustain the city. Depending on your management performance, either immigration or emigration will happen, leading to more… Read More »

Ara: History Untold’s Living World – Roads

By | May 6, 2023

The developers of Ara: History Untold have published a new blog post about the update on their roads, to make them more lively and organic looking. You can find the screenshots here, and discuss them in our forum here.

Ara: History Untold Developer Diary: City Layouts

By | January 30, 2023

The developers of Ara: History Untold have posted 2 in their dev blog, talking about city layouts. They describe the difficulties of having procedurally generated city layouts, which also need to look appealing. Initially they cities appeared like pizzas, with repetetive sectors. They seem to have fixed this problem by definiting some basic layouts, from which the game… Read More »

Ara: History Untold – Technical Alpha 2 to come

By | January 11, 2023

Ara: History Untold is another hot contender for best upcoming Civilization-like game. The developers have now concluded the first alpha phase of the game, and are incorporating the feedback into the game. They have also announced that a second technical alpha will come soon. If you want to join this alpha, you first need to join the Xbox… Read More »