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Pharaoh

Download Pharaoh for free and play on Windows. Build the wonders of ancient Egypt in Sierra's 1999 city-builder — pyramids, floods, and pharaonic ambition. Safe download, no registration.

Version available for download: Windows

Year	1999
Genre	Strategy - city building
Rating	82/100 based on 7 Editorial reviews. Add your vote
Publisher	Sierra On-Line
Developer	Impressions
OS supported	Windows XP, 2000 & Windows 7, MacOS 10.6-10.14
Game Design	Chris Beatrice

Game Review

Pharaoh is a city-building simulation game set in ancient Egypt, developed by Impressions Games. It was published by Sierra Entertainment in 1999 for Windows.

Pharaoh continued Impressions Games' City Building series created by David Lester with Caesar created by Impressions Games into ancient Egypt.

The game uses the Caesar III engine, with a 2D isometric view. It allows players to manage the creation of cities, the growth of the population, and the health and protection of citizens in ancient Egypt.

The game received very positive reviews and was followed by a sequel, Cleopatra: Queen of the Nile.

Note for Mac users: the new version, v1.1, now includes a patch to make the sound effects work.

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Latest Comments

Gustavo Ehrhardt - 2023-12-02 - Reply
Great work on mac via wineskin. But we can't run this package due the 32bit support drop after MacOS Catalina. Is it possible to try wine64 inside the mac bundle? It will work? See ya.
athomewithcats1 - 2020-10-16 - Reply
Are there any news for Wineskin games on Mac OS 10.15 Catalina? I loved playing Pharaoh, but didn't realise that upgrading my computer to Catalina would make it impossible to play as Wineskin apparently doesn't work on Catalina. So looking forward to an updated version!
jangerhardoosthuysen - 2018-11-21 - Reply
If you have the flickering problem, try CMD+M in the game, it ceases the flickering.
Stefan - 2018-01-26 - Reply
The game worked fine until one of the last missions, when completing it, the game shuts down =( I'm re-installing it now. Great game anyway, thanks for the uppload! =)
Recycle_Bin - 2017-09-05 - Reply
Hi everyone.
To solve the flickering screen on Mac, press cmd+alt+esc and problem solved.
If when you press them, it exits the game, then press cmd+alt+esc BEFORE launching the game. Then, on Window click Zoom, then again on Window, click on minimize and open again the game window. That's how it worked for me.
disqus_ZeHuSlKAmo - 2017-08-05 - Reply
Honestly I'm surprised that so many other people enjoyed this game as much as I did. Always enjoyed RTS games but Pharoah always stood apart from the others.
Nena | The Seaside Calls - 2017-04-30 - Reply
Huzzah! It works! Even on my Mac! I'm so excited to relive my childhood! ^.^
Isaac Bodjanac - 2017-01-12 - Reply
Yes, I'm running it on Windows 10 and the only problem I'm have is that it freezes some times. Although, I think that is because my CD has been well loved so to speak. Don't do a full install, I ran into problems with that, click minimum install and it will install perfectly.
Eric Redstone - 2016-12-23 - Reply
Loved this sim game. haven't played it in years I still have the CD. Will this work in win 10?
Tortue - 2016-12-20 - Reply
So the actual Mac version running perfectly but there is not the expansion? Well seems good to me..

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