Builders of Egypt
Ancient Egyptian city builder balancing trade, temples, and defense
Strategy Labs · Released Jan 8, 2025
- Reviews
- Mostly Negative
- 33% of 509
- Recent reviews
- Not enough recent
- Playing now
- 0
- peak 24h 1
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Last update
- 9 months ago
- Nov 29, 2025
Free demo available, 0 playing it now: get the demo.
What is Builders of Egypt?
Builders of Egypt is a historical city-building strategy game set across pharaonic Egypt, with a campaign that begins as you govern Memphis under King Narmer. Across missions, you place buildings and roads, manage resources and trade, support temples, and organize armies. Sandbox mode lets you build without campaign missions.
For you if...
- +you like planning city economies and trade routes
- +you want an ancient Egyptian setting with historical monuments
- +you prefer sandbox building alongside a structured campaign
Not for you if...
- −you prefer direct action to managing a city's economy
- −you want city building without organizing armies or defenses
What players say
33% of 509 reviews are positive
Players praise the Egyptian setting and the planning involved in building cities. The most common complaint is that firehouses and architects' posts fail to take on workers, leaving buildings vulnerable to fire and collapse. Players say the problem appeared after an update and persists in recent reviews; some also report roads failing to connect to farms.
Screenshots and trailer
Builders of Egypt system requirements
As published by the developer.
Minimum
- OS
- Windows 8.1x64 / Windows 10x64
- Processor
- i5 6600k or Ryzen 5 1600
- Graphics
- GTX 1060 6GB VRAM or RX 580
- Memory
- 8 GB RAM
- Storage
- 20 GB available space
- DirectX
- Version 11
Recommended
- OS
- Windows 8.1x64 / Windows 10x64
- Processor
- i7 6700k or Ryzen 5 3600
- Graphics
- RTX 2060 or RX 5700
- Memory
- 12 GB RAM
- Storage
- 20 GB available space
- DirectX
- Version 11
PC version details
DRM, required accounts, controller support and Steam features.
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Keyboard and mouse
- Platforms
- Windows
- Steam features
- Family Sharing
Steam Deck: Playable
- Default controller config not fully functional
- Sometimes shows mouse, keyboard or non-Deck controller icons
- Some text entry requires manually opening the on-screen keyboard
- Some in-game text is small and may be hard to read
- Default configuration is not performant
Multiplayer and co-op
Languages
Text only: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese - Brazil, Turkish.
Tags
- Strategy
- City Builder
- Indie
- Simulation
- Historical
- Building
- Economy
- Management
- Realistic
- Tactical
- Base Building
- RTS
- Sandbox
- War
- Mythology
- Real-Time
Recent updates
- Nov 29, 2025 · Patch 1.5048
- Sep 12, 2025 · Hotfix 1.5021
- Sep 6, 2025 · Major update: 1.5 is here!
- Jul 24, 2025 · Major update 1.5
- May 28, 2025 · Road to version 1.5
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