The timeline of human evolution is very complex and involves many twists and turns. It’s a game focused on the origins of our species. So it’s a game about a bunch of dirty apes?
There are two dozen things in this picture that can kill you. Thankfully, as long as the clan survives, the game will continue on. In keeping with the survival aesthetic, you’re neither the biggest nor the most dangerous thing out there.
You facilitate the clan’s evolution by exploring the world, identifying new food and tools, learning new skills to harness the natural environment for your own advantage, and of course, avoiding being eaten long enough to sire a new generation of apes. It is also out on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.Īh, a simpler, more innocent time of fighting apex predators with pointed sticks.Īncestors: The Humankind Odyssey is a game that takes a lot of risks, chief among them being the core concept: You control not so much a distinct character, but an entire clan, and slowly evolving them over the course of eight million years (mercifully condensed into an estimated 40 to 50 hours of gameplay), slowly evolving from a bunch of confused apes trying desperately not to get eaten into a bunch of slightly less confused and decidedly more lethal apes capable of using tools.
The game is currently available on PC via the Epic game store, and will be coming to Steam next year. Now, with the help of Panache Digital Games, you can experience being one of humanity’s ancestral species ten million years ago, trying to survive long enough to lead to the emergence of the modern homo sapiens (whether it’s a good thing remains debatable) in Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey. Stones and spears might be the expected weapons for World War IV, but they’re also the tools that helped humankind survive the first couple hundred generations.
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