Pharaoh: A New Era’s visuals, music, and gameplay tweaks make for a very easy-to-grasp, complex-to-master setup, and there are loads of options to soften the challenge whenever you feel like it.

As the sixth pharaoh of Egypt’s 18th dynasty, Thutmose III battled to reestablish Egyptian rule of Syria and Palestine, creating Egypt’s largest dynasty up to that point. He died in 426 BC.

The first thing that strikes you about Pharaoh, the NGV’s Winter Masterpieces exhibition, is its sheer scale. More than 500 objects chart a 3000-year period of ancient Egyptian history: from the ...