History YMMV / Pharaoh

** Tower are bugged so loading a saved game won't keep the improvements made to them or guards stationed there.
** Recruiters occasionally report there is no demand of forces so they don't supply soliders anymore, despite the city having forts that are not full.
** Iken campaign mission is configured as sandbox without winning conditions, so the mission is UnwinnableByMistake.

** Policemen and towers no longer target predators, so they disabling them is the only way to deal with them.

** One bug involving the new battle system causes the game to automatically pause itself at the end of every single month.
** Trade ships can become stuck in your waters, making trade stop, the resources of their city unavailabe and the mission unwinnable.

** Trade caravans will sometimes put items you didn't ask for in the yards. In this case, getting free stuff is definitely BlessedWithSuck- more often than not, it's something you can't sell (such as construction stone) or that you have no use for because you weren't supposed to have access to it (such as barley) and thus can't turn into finished goods (no breweries). Thankfully the remake add an ability to get rid of unwanted goods.

* DifficultySpike: The Middle Kingdom begins with a very hard mission (Waset) and a NintendoHard one (Thinis).

* SequelDifficultyDrop: The remake lacks a "Very Hard" level, and "Hard" itself is easier than the original setting with the same name. With an average army, the tougher enemies like the Kushites, Hyksos and Hittites are regularly beaten in the (automatic) stand up battles without losing most of your forces.

* SequelDifficultySpike: The interest rates on debt are much stepper in the remake, making the CycleOfHurting harder to manage while you are in the red.

* SequelDifficultyDrop: The remake lacks a "Very Hard" level, and "Hard" is considerably easier than the original setting with the same name. With an average army, the tougher enemies like the Kushites, Hyksos and Hittites are regularly beaten in the (automatic) stand up battles without losing most of your forces.

** Dunqul Oasis presents little trade opportunities and you can overcommit initially to a closing one of wood, hyenas running rampant across the map and massive Kushite invasions. Like in Qadesh, towers cannot be erected.

** The second run of Thinis, which is absolutely nightmarish. The one reliable source of incoming - gold mines - are placed away from the grass so they'll work at a limited rate due to travelling time to and from the expensive palace. You face near-impossible demands from your Pharaoh, extortion attempts from your rivals, closing trade routes, and constant invasions. Failing to provide adequate military aid to Men-Nefer twice will permanantly close the source of papyrus and make the mission unwinnable. The alternative mission, Waset, is hardly simple, but is a cakewalk in comparison.

** The second run of Thinis, which is absolutely nightmarish. The one reliable source of incoming - gold mines - are placed away from the grass so they'll work at a limited rate due to travelling time to and from the expensive palace. You face near-impossible demands from your Pharaoh, extortion attempts from your rivals, closing trade routes, and constant invasions. Failing to provide adequate military aid to Men-Nefer twice will permantly close the source of papyrus and make the mission unwinnable. The alternative mission, Waset, is hardly simple, but is a cakewalk in comparison.
** In what doubles as UnintentionallyUnwinnable, the Hittite chariots at Qadesh are virtually undefeatable in the field on very hard.While [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REEitX2A_1o It has been done]] (with an undgodly amount of micromanaging and SaveScumming), the only really viable way of winning requires taking refuge behind the river in a corner of the map in a small settlement and hope they get demoralized and leave in time without completely destroying the rest of the city.

* GameBreakingBug:
** In the remake, monuments can't be finished if the top of the monument goes past the edge of the map.

* GameBreakingBug: In the remake, monuments can't be finished if the top of the monument goes past the edge of the map.

* ObviousBeta: The remake was released with some unbearable bugs not present in the original and easily spotted by players, such as the flood not drowning the farmers who get caught on the shore, serious, blocking issues with building monuments and false calculations regarding the amount of stored goods - or the fact that housing doesn't require any goods to sustain itself, just the first delivery.

* ObviousBeta: The remake was released with some unbearable bugs not present in the original and easily spotted by players, such as the flood not drowning the farmers who get caught on the shore, serious, blocking issues with building monuments and false calculations regarding the amount of stored goods.

** The second run of Thinis, which is absolutely nightmarish. The one reliable source of incoming - gold mines - are placed away from the grass so they'll work at a limited rate due to travelling time to and from the expensive palace. You face near-impossible demands from your Pharaoh, extortion attempts from your rivals, closing trade routes, and constant invasions. Failing to fulfill an specific request will close the source of papyrus and make the mission unwinnable. The alternative mission, Waset, is hardly simple, but is a cakewalk in comparison.

** The second run of Thinis, which is absolutely nightmarish. The one reliable source of incoming - gold mines - are placed away from the grass so they'll work at a limited rate due to travelling time to and from the expensive palace. You face near-impossible demands from your Pharaoh, extortion attempts from your rivals, closing trade routes, and constant invasions. Failing to fulfill an specific request will close the source of payrus and make the mission unwinnable. The alternative mission, Waset, is hardly simple, but is a cakewalk in comparison.

** The second run of Thinis, which is absolutely nightmarish. You face near-impossible demands from your Pharaoh, extortion attempts from your rivals, closing trade routes, and constant invasions. The alternative mission, Waset, is hardly simple, but is a cakewalk in comparison.
** In what doubles as UnintentionallyUnwinnable, the Hittite chariots at Qadesh can't be defeated in the field on very hard. Winning requires taking refuge behind the river in a corner of the map in a small settlement and hope they get demoralized and leave in time without completely destroying the rest of the city.
** Dunqul Oasis presents little trade opportunities, hyenas running rampant across the map and massive Kushite invasions. Like in Qadesh, towers cannot be erected.

** Clunky and annoying as combat was, many fans preferred it to the remake, which simply shows two OnrushingArmies then tells you the result of the battle (and doesn't tell you which buildings were destroyed if your army lost).

** Building Shrines is a good way to keep the gods appeased. They only take up one space each and only need to be within two spaces of a road, so they're easily placed to fill space in blocks, and they raise desirability more than gardens and small statues to boot. Once you reach a critical mass of Shrines, the gods will be perpetually happy and shower you with blessings endlessly.

** In the remake, the ability to switch to a global worker pool rather than the recruiter system is a godsend. No more waiting for workers to get to an industrial area, no more putting down more roadblocks than there are buildings to make sure the recruiter actually goes past the housing, no more making sure said industrial area also contains police stations, doctors, tax offices, etc. (and consequently, no more industrial hellholes that keep spawning criminals and plague walkers like clockwork).

** Trade caravans will sometimes put items you didn't ask for in the yards. In this case, getting free stuff is definitely BlessedWithSuck- more often than not, it's something you can't sell (such as construction stone) or that you have no use for because you weren't supposed to have access to it (such as barley) and thus can't turn into finished goods (no breweries).

* ScrappyMechanic: The [[TimedMission timed missions]] from Cleopatra where you have to achieve your goals within a certain amount of years are not well liked among fans. The biblical disasters from the same expansion are also more annoying than anything and just grinds your game to a standstill for as long they last.