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Pharaoh A New Eratakes cheating to the next level. Not only do some of the old cheat codes still work, much to the delight of dancing hippo fans, but many are added to a brand-new menu that lets you truly customize your maps.
Cheats can be used on any and all maps, including campaigns, but not all cheats will be useful on every level. In this guide we take a look at how to enable cheats, the new menu, and everything you’re able to change using this system.
Updated on June 04, 2025, By Helen Ashcroft:We’ve updated this list to bring you even more cheat codes for those to like to cheat old-school style.
How To Enable Cheats
The cheat menu can feel slightly invasive soas a default it is turned off. To enable cheats you need toopen the settings menu, select:Gameplay > Cheatcodes > Yesand then hit confirm.
You’ll know it’s worked sincebelow the Encyclopedia iconon the left-hand side menu will be avibrant pink exclamation mark.If you don’t see it right away,save your map and then reload.
Left-clicking the exclamation mark icon willdisplay the Cheats Menu.
Customising Your Game Experience
Down the left-hand side of the menu isa range of options that affect how your city will run.Here’severything you may change and the effect it will haveon your city.
Allows full function with reduced workers
Houses will evolve without entertainment
Houses will evolve with poor desirability
Fires and collapses won’t happen
Stop and ignore fire
Prevents fires, stops any in progress
Stops event popups
Build without limits
Gods won’t get angry
More settlers will come to the city
All building types unlocked
All goods types unlocked
Complete a stage of your monument
Hippos on the map will dance
Ostriches on the map have swag
No Camera Limit
More flexible camera
There are alsodebug settings for desirability, diamond co-ord, staggered co-ord, and terrainshould you wish to experiment with these.
All these settings are separate, andyou can turn them on and offto ensure the type of gameplay you want. Alongside thedifficulty level adjustment, these should allow you totailor your experiencein order to overcome any difficulties you encounter along the way. You’ll find these cheats most useful in creating acustom sandbox experience.
Completing Missions And Achievements With Cheats
Alongside the permanent cheat menu are veryspecific options you are more likely to use in campaign mode. If you are finding a mission too difficult you caninstantly win the missionby pressing thebig green Win Mission button.Bizarrely, you may alsoselect to lose the mission,should you so desire.
This willinstantly display a Victory screen, allowing you to progress to the next level.It will not affect your city in any other way, nor will it set any of the city stats to reflect the usual victory conditions. It simply overrides them.
Below this is anAchievements menu.Here you canscroll down the list of achievementsand see every single one in the game. Each one has anadd and unlock buttonnext to it which you’re able to use to ding the achievements. You can alsoreset them if you want to start again.
Resetting willremove all your earned Achievementsfrom Steam or GOG.
If you prefer to complete levels with just a little help you can alsofinish the current monument, saving a lot of time and resources on this often-required condition. To do thisyou’ll need to place down the base of the monument.You can thenselect it from the drop-down menuon the right-hand side, just above the Achievements. The buttons next to this allow you tocomplete the current step or the entire monument.
Overriding City Issues
The other options in this part of the menu allow you tocombat a couple of common city issues. By default, you will be on theAction Tab, which is where theAchievement and Mission settingsare. These are the other options you’ll find.
Action Tab
Eachgodin the game is named here, and you canadjust the values in the boxes next to their namesto change the sentiment level. This isafast way to stop the oncoming wrath of an angry god.
you’re able to alsoadjust the amount of debens in your treasuryto solve any debt issues at a push of a button.There are options toboth add and remove money, so you can always lend yourself some cash if you are in a temporary bind, without affecting city sentiment.
You can alsosend out your armies to attack, oroverride the game speed in a more precise wayon this Action Tab menu.
Event Tab
If you click the event tab there is a second menu that lets youchange the event settings and trigger or fulfill requests.This tab is fairly straightforward to use once you have got your head around the event types.Simply use the drop-down menus to customise the settings and gain yourself some goodwill, fast.
Cheat Codes For Pharaoh A New Era
If you wish to cheat using the old-fashioned way you still can, although not all codes from the original work. Simply press:
Ctrl + Alt + Shift + C
This willbring up the cheat code box.Here, you canenter a cheat codewithout having to have cheats activated in the main menu. These arethe cheats that still work, assuming the map supports them.
Some maps, especially missions,block certain cheats. Most cheats alsoonly work if specific gods are worshiped. We’veadded these conditionswhere known.
Doubles farm harvest
Stocked shipwrights, weavers, or jewelers
Fills a warehouse with goods
Increases exports by 50%
Seth will strike down some invaders
Protects soldiers in battle
Fills bazaars and houses with food
Minor blessings from all gods
Makes hippos dance
Hippos
Negative Cheats
Aside from these, there are also afew negative cheat codesyou can employ
Sets fire to some of the best houses
A plague strikes the city
Destroys all ships (including yours)
Destroys your best company
Lowers your kingdom rating
Destroys a storage yard
Destroys some industrial buildings
Destroys farms on a flood plain
Next induration is worse
Turns rivers into blood
Toads will rain down on the city
Locusts attack your crops
Hail To The Chief
Triggers a storm
So take control of your city and gain unlimited wealth, or unleash some plagues.You are the true god in this city.
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