Handy, as the only things that so far can be made are bricks and pottery. Trading with one nearby settlement is currently in the game, although they are only happy to buy a few things so good luck getting rid of all of the spare straw you will accrue! This is going to be your main source of income, as the next town over has a near-insatiable appetite for bricks. There are various categories of buildings, although many aren’t yet in use in this early build. Setting up with houses and businesses alongside the Nile, you get a huge amount of land and can develop over a very large area at the moment.
The mission that is available at the moment puts you in control of a small settlement in the early days of the country. There’s not a huge amount of content just yet, but what is there is nicely crafted, with the single mission doing a great job of showcasing the depth that we can expect from the finished title. I was a little surprised to be asked to build a fire station pretty much right away, and then learnt that the ancient Egyptians are generally considered to be the inventors of this: a necessity because of oil-fed lamps used to light their homes. Loading screens, tutorials and in-game menus have a great deal of historical information and I actually feel like I learnt something from playing this free-to-play demo of this city-builder. You can probably tell from the title exactly what to expect from Builders of Egypt: Prologue, but what it doesn’t tell you is the in-depth backstory in the game. Well, metaphorically speaking anyway, there’s still a lot of desert in Egypt. Fortunately, history-themed video games exist to make learning a lot less dry. This is a shame because as I’ve got older it’s become something much more interesting to me, but I’m playing catch-up with people who have been studying it all their lives. I know who invented the horse-drawn seed drill and I can remember a few of Henry VIII’s wives, but ask me anything about the history of some of the world’s great civilisations and I’m likely to struggle. It has to be said that I didn’t pay a great deal of attention to history when I was at school. Previews // 30th May 2020 - 3 years ago // By Gary “Dominoid” Sheppard Builders of Egypt: Prologue Preview
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