Whether gamers are looking for a single player or multiplayer experience in Ara: History Untold, it's important to be aware of the customization options the game offers its players. This way, players know exactly the settings that they must change if they want a different kind of Ara: History Untold game.

This guide goes into detail on all the available options and settings in Ara: History Untold for both multiplayer and single player games.

How to Set a Single Player Game in Ara: History Untold

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As soon as players boot up Ara: History Untold, they'll be met with a main menu that allows them to create a Single Player or Multiplayer Game. To play against the AI in Ara: History Untold, gamers have to select the "New Game" option in the Single Player tab.

Ara: History Untold Nation Leader Selection Screen

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Before setting up their game, players must choose which leader they'd like to play. There are 42 nation leaders in Ara: History Untold; each one has a unique perk as well as a selection of shared traits. A leader's unique trait will appear above the other traits in the top right corner of the leader selection screen.

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Before moving to the next menu, players should choose the leader skin they'd like to wear in the Appearance menu in the bottom left corner. However, this is purely a cosmetic change.

Ara: History Untold Single Player Game Setup Options

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Once players have decided which leader they want to use, they can press Select to move onto the Game Setup menu. Here, they will have to pick basic settings, such as game difficulty, map type, and number of nations, but they can also modify the advanced settings to create a customized game experience.

Basic Settings Options

Setting

Options

Effects

Difficulty
  • Esquire (easiest)
  • Baron
  • Viscount
  • Earl (normal)
  • Marquess
  • Prince
  • Duke
  • Grand Duke
  • King
  • Emperor (hardest)

While the easiest difficulty in Ara: History Untold provides players with various bonuses and friendly AI players, as they increase the game's difficulty, the bonuses start to dwindle and the AI becomes more aggressive.

While Duke difficulty still grants minimal bonuses, Grand Buke includes no bonuses at all and gamers will have to face hostile AI more frequently.

Map Type

Indus

A balanced map with a realistic distribution of food, wood, and materials.

Globulous

A balanced map with two large continents and scattered nearby islands.

Northlands

A single continent full of trees, snow, and wild animals. Hunting will be more important than farming.

Great Lakes

A single continent with multiple inland seas. Temperate climate and resource nodes.

The Torus

A single continent which wraps around the globe. Or, a single landmass with two large inland oceans.

Tropical

A moderately sized continent surrounded by ocean and a few islands with no colder regions. Food is more plentiful.

Heatwave

A continents map with much less rainfall. Food is reduced everywhere and deserts are larger.

The default Map Type option is to generate a new map. However, gamers can select a Preset Map if they want a experience on a certain type of terrain or environment.

Nation Settings

In the Nation Settings menu, players will have to choose the number of Nations that will spawn on the game map. Gamers can create games with a minimum of 2 Nations and a maximum of 10.

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On top of this, they can also customize who these Nations will be before the game starts and the AI difficulty of each Nation.

Advanced Settings

Setting

Options

Effects

Turn Limit
  • Brief (100)
  • Short (300)
  • Medium (750)
  • Long (1, 250)

Players can set a turn limit in Ara: History Untold so that if a player hasn't obtained a victory by then, the game will end automatically once it reaches a certain number of turns.

Randomize Tech Draws
  • Disabled (On/Off)

This option randomizes the technologies that will appear per era.

Human Player Culling
  • Enabled (On/Off)

If this option is enabled, human players can be culled if at the bottom when an act transition occurs.

Vegetation
  • Low
  • Medium
  • High

This option determines the availability of plant-based resources.

Wildlife
  • Low
  • Medium
  • High

This option determines the availability of animal-based resources.

Ore
  • Low
  • Medium
  • High

This option determines the availability of ore-based resources.

How to Set Up a Multiplayer Game in Ara: History Untold

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To play a multiplayer game in Ara: History Untold, gamers have to select the "New Game" option in the Multiplayer tab that appears on the title screen.

Ara: History Untold Multiplayer Game Setup Options

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When setting up a multiplayer game in Ara: History Untold, there are other settings that players will have to take into consideration:

Lobby Settings

In the Lobby Settings, players will have to give their multiplayer game a name and decide which settings suit their preferences:

  • Game Name
  • Private Game (On/Off)
  • Join Code Displayed to Host Only (On/Off)
  • Hotjoining (On/Off)
  • Eligible Acts to Hotjoin (Act 1 Only/Act 1 & Act 2/Anytime)
  • Multiplayer Chat (On/Off)

Basic Settings - Map Generation Options

In the Basic Settings section, gamers will have to choose Game Difficulty and Map Type just like a regular single player game. However, if they decide to generate a new map, there are several other options that must be take into account:

Setting

Options

Map Style
  • Supercontinent
  • Global Archipelago
  • World Spine
  • Four Continents
  • Fractal Coasts
  • Great Inland Ocean
  • Continental Isthmus
  • Twin Continents

Map Size
  • Tiny
  • Small
  • Medium
  • Large

Wrapped Map
  • Enabled (On/Off)

Seed
  • Randomize
  • Custom

Axial Tilt
  • Earth
  • Jupiter
  • Mercury
  • Neptune
  • Uranus

Temperature
  • Scorching
  • Tropical
  • Mild
  • Boreal
  • Polar

Humidity
  • Arid
  • Semi-Arid
  • Humid
  • Wet
  • Monsoon

Sea Level
  • Dry
  • Shallow
  • Average
  • High
  • Global Ocean

Nation Settings

On top of having to decide how many Nations will be playing, the host will also have to choose the number of human players.

There can be a maximum of 10 Nations and 10 Human Players. Although the host can freely reduce the number of human players, they can never have a lower number of players compared to AI.

Multiplayer Settings

These options will determine multiplayer functions for the game.

Setting

Options

Timer Type
  • Seconds
  • Minutes
  • Days
  • None

Act 1 Duration
  • 30-180 turns

Act 2 Duration
  • 30-180 turns

Act 3 Duration
  • 30-180 turns

Progress When All Turns Submitted
  • Enabled (On/Off)

Inactivity Penalty
  • Disabled (On/Off)

Player Pause
  • Disabled (On/Off)

Player AFK
  • Enabled
  • Disabled

Nation Actions During AFK
  • AI controlled
  • No AI actions

AFK Count
  • 1-10 times

AFK Duration
  • 1-20 turns

Advanced Settings

The Advanced Settings in multiplayer are exactly the same as those available in single player games.

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Once players are satisfied with their setting preferences, they must select "Submit" so they can move onto the next screen a pick a leader for their multiplayer game in Ara: History Untold.

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Released
September 24, 2024
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WHERE TO PLAY

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ESRB
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Developer(s)
Oxide Games
Publisher(s)
Xbox Game Studios
Engine
Nitrous Engine
Platform(s)
PC
Genre(s)
Turn-Based Strategy