Ara: History Untold just got an extended trailer at Xbox's Developer Direct and guess what? You can make mechs, advancing from medieval hamlets to contemporary metropolises to the Future Age in which you can sprinkle in a healthy bit of Neon Genesis to fight your wars.

It's being developed by Oxide Games, a studio partially made up of former Civilization developers. Now, they're making an all-new strategy game, first announcing Ara: History Untold two years ago in 2022.

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Outside of this new trailer, we don't have many details on Ara: History Untold. It's coming exclusively to PC, but with Oxide Games working closely with Microsoft, we might get an Xbox port at some point. Just don't expect it to come to any other platform (unless the Hi-Fi rumours pan out). If there is an Xbox release on the way, the studio just might not be ready to show it off, given that strategy games can be pretty hard to pull off with controller support.

Not only did we see mechs but iconic landmarks like the Eiffel Tower, giant battles fought with hundreds of soldiers, the prestige system, sprawling modern cities, and procedurally generated worlds. The team also showed off the enormous collection of instruments they bought to influence the game's music.

Taking a look at the game's official description, it's clearly taking some inspiration from Civilization, as it encourages players to craft their own nation based on real-world cultures to build up the arts or dominate in war.

Build a nation and lead your people throughout history to the pinnacles of human achievement as you explore new lands, develop arts and culture, conduct diplomacy, and go head-to-head with your rivals to prove you are the greatest ruler ever known.

Ara: History Untold will launch on PC in 2024, arriving day one on Xbox Game Pass.

This was far from the only reveal at today's Xbox Developer Direct. We also got an extended preview of the upcoming Indiana Jones game that's being published by Bethesda. We also got a look at Visions of Mana, the first game in the series on Microsoft's platform. And let's not forget that we were taken over to Obsidian Entertainment to have a look at the widely anticipated fantasy RPG, Avowed.

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