Whether it’s Civilization 6, Cities Skylines 2, or even Stellaris, I expect economic management in strategy games to be difficult – I want a certain level of precision in the real world, and I I can only imagine that organizing the finances of an entire city, star fleet, or planet is quite tricky. But there is a happy medium. Details are good, but repetitive, busy work is not. Until now, Ara’s untold story struggled to find balance. Too much of your time is spent micromanaging individual workshops, farms, and other amenities. But all that is about to change. Along with a beautifully designed new world map, a new leader, an overhauled combat system, and a myriad of other improvements, Ara’s new update makes the entire game that much better.

Ara History Untold is a strategy game with a twist. In Civilization and many other staple genres, if you want to maximize your chances of success, you essentially need to decide on a victory type before you start playing. Going from technological victory to domination along the way is difficult – Ara is trying to be more flexible.

Although you can pursue religion, culture, war, economics and other paths of victory from the grand strategy Like, everything you do is also grouped into a separate metric called Prestige. At the end of the game, the civilization with the most Prestige wins. This means you can explore different playstyles in a single game, and you’re not chained to the same objective from the first round to the last.

Economic management in Ara, however, is a bit too painful, especially as the game progresses. Let’s say you need to prioritize wood production and you’ve also expanded your civilization to multiple regions and cities, each with their own workshops. If you want everyone to start mass producing lumber, you need to select each workshop in each town individually and manually configure them to craft lumber. It’s tedious and time-consuming – and now, thanks to the new update, it’s a thing of the past.

Arriving free for all players, the Ara History Untold Invisible Hand update adds a new “National Economy” screen, so you can instantly configure your entire workforce to produce the resource you need. You can also use it to define a facility improvement policy. If you decide that each workbench needs to be expanded, you can select this option and, once your workbenches have gathered the resources needed to build the expansion, they will do so automatically.

Complementing this, Invisible Hand adds a range of new equipment, so you have several new build options in each historical age. Combat has also been overhauled. Until now, you couldn’t individually upgrade your units over time. This created a bizarre situation where your modern soldiers and armored vehicles fight alongside archers and spearmen.

But it’s over. You can now upgrade individual units in Ara, and there’s also a new battlefield system that takes into account different terrain types, each of which can improve or weaken your army depending on its composition. Development of this feature is ongoing, but Invisible Hand is the first step.

You’re given a tutorial when you start your first game in Ara, but even then, as you progress, it’s easy to lose track of all the screens, systems, and mechanics. The latest update introduces the Advisor menu, so you can get instructions and advice on every part of the game, no matter how long you’ve been playing.

Invisible Hand also introduces the first stage of modding support and there’s a brand new leader in the form of John A. Macdonald, the first real-world Prime Minister of Canada. It increases the production of military units and government buildings by 50%, but also has the pacifist trait, meaning soldiers are 10% weaker when moving and attacking outside national borders.

Finally, the best new feature of the Ara History Untold update is the first version of the accurate and real world map. If Crusader Kings and Europa Universalis are normally your 4X games of choice, Ara now has her own version of the current globe. However, to maintain balance and ensure that no civilization has a pure geographical advantage over another, the borders and sizes of continents are partially adjusted – this is not because you choose a nation that is historically l ‘one of the largest on the planet you get to own most of the map.

The Ara History Untold Invisible Hand update arrives on Thursday, November 14 and is free for all players.. If you want to download the game on Steam, simply go to here. Alternatively, it is also available on PC Game Pass.

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