Total War: Pharaoh confirmed for October 2023 release

Experience the Bronze Age Collapse in Total War’s next historical installment

Marco Wutz | May 23, 2023

Total War: Pharaoh confirmed for October 2023 release /

Total War: Pharaoh has been confirmed as the next historical entry into Creative Assembly’s strategy game series. It targets a launch in October 2023 and lets players dive into the final stages of the Bronze Age in the Eastern Mediterranean with Egypt, Anatolia, and Canaan as theaters of war. Our predictions from after the game leaked on the developer’s website were pretty spot on in this regard.

Eight factions will be playable at release:

Egyptians: Ramesses, Seti, Tausret, Amenmesse
Canaanites: Bay, Irsu
Hittites: Kurunta, Suppiluliuma

Each faction leader will have a different playstyle. They also don't seem to be represented as single-entity units on the battlefield, which is going to be welcome news for many fans. Featuring new dynamic battles, Total War: Pharaoh changes the game by having sandstorms, fire, and outbursts of rain directly impact what’s happening on the battlefield.

Total War: Pharaoh will be available on PC at a price of $59.99 / £49.99 / €59.99 for the base version. A Deluxe and Dynasty Edition will be available as well. They contain the game’s soundtrack as well as planned faction and campaign packs that will expand Total War: Pharaoh in the future. Those who pre-order will be rewarded with some cosmetics for their faction leaders and their bodyguard units. An early access weekend is included as a pre-order bonus as well.

Aside from the traditional single-player content, Total War: Pharaoh will offer two-player co-op and head-to-head campaigns. It'll include various new ways of customizing your campaigns as well, such as random start positions for all factions.

Published May 23, 2023

MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg