Imhotep, Pyramid Builder

Imhotep, Pyramid Builder is a game about planning and overseeing the construction of a pyramid in Ancient Egypt. You organize agriculture, lay out a village and direct a workforce that can grow to thousands of workers, simulated moving through the world in real time.

Plan the workforce

You hire irrigation workers, farmers, household servants and builders. They go about their lives autonomously, and you can pick up individual workers and place them elsewhere in the world. You must provide enough food and shelter for the people you hire; workers may die if they become exhausted without these provisions.

Build the settlement

Farms need irrigation and produce grain, which bakeries turn into food. Tax offices take surplus food and provide silver for buildings and labour, while huts shelter exhausted workers and distribute food to them. Managing your workforce, supplies and silver is part of getting the pyramid built.

Read the interface

The user interface uses ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, with an option to display an English transcription.