Microsoft's answer to Civilization looks, well, a lot like Civilization, but has twists like simultaneous turn resolution
Ara: History Untold maybe could've used a better title—it makes me think of a Las Vegas show, like the Luxor hotel's King Tut Experience—but it's interesting: a historical grand strategy game from Microsoft-owned developer Oxide Games (maker of Ashes of the Singularity) with ambitions to deliver «an evolution» in the genre.