Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey
Panache Digital Games · 2020 · Open World Survival Craft, Survival, Open World, Exploration, Singleplayer
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About Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey
✦ AI summary
Guide your evolving clan through millions of years of African prehistory, managing survival needs and passing down learned skills across generations in this unique third-person odyssey. Every decision you make shapes your species' evolution and survival strategy, creating a one-of-a-kind journey through humanity's earliest chapters.
Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is a third-person open world survival game where you Explore, Expand, and Evolve to advance your clan to the next generation in this exhilarating new adventure from Panache Digital Games.
Embark on the most incredible odyssey known to humankind: human evolution. Spanning from 10 million to 2 million years ago, begin your journey, before us, in Neogene period Africa. Explore a beautiful yet ruthless world, from swinging through tree branches in the jungle to stalking prey across the golden savannah grasslands. Decide what attributes to learn and hone in order to pass down knowledge to future generations, from crafting tools to enhancing evasive tactics against predators. Just like real life, make sure to eat, drink, and sleep to stay alive and have the energy to face any danger that may come your way.
Grow your clan and find strength in numbers as you progress through critical evolutionary stages of human evolution. Your choices will write your clan’s story and determine if you can survive your evolution.
Explore Ruthless Africa
Explore the never-before-experienced world of Neogene Africa starting 10 million years ago at the dawn of humankind. From the tops of tree canopies overlooking lush jungles to the golden grasslands of the savannah, traverse a beautiful yet unforgiving landscape. For every breath-taking view, beware of the weather, predators, and other dangers that threaten your survival.
Expand Your Territory and Grow Your Clan
Increase your chances of survival by uniting new members of your species and giving birth to future generations. Control different clan members, form bonds to create families, and work together to intimidate predators during expeditions. Conquer fear as you explore unknown locations in order to expand your territory.
Evolve Through Multiple Generations
See the physical and intellectual evolution of the first hominids as you explore, learn, and survive. Spanning from 10 million to 2 million years ago, play as one of the first hominids and evolve over the course of millions of years during key stages in human evolution. Make crucial discoveries and hone physical abilities that will be passed down to future generations such as Ardipithecus ramidus and Australopithecus.
Choose How You Survive
Evolution was not written in stone. Your decisions shape how you will overcome obstacles, increase your species, and what knowledge will pass on to future generations. Focus on specific attributes or choose a more balanced approach to survival. Your clan’s ability to survive will be directly impacted by your choices, making each player’s experience unique.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
In principle, I should love this game. It has all the elements I love in a game, and on top of that it has monkeys, which alone would have made me buy the game. The gameplay is purposely unclear. Very little is explained in the game instead letting you slowly figure out how things work and what can be done with various objects, locations, characters etc. This is a clear choice from the developers, and in principle I agree with it. The problem with this game comes from the fact that controls and graphics are both horrendous. It is extremely hard to control the character, so instead of making exploration, the core goal of the game, an enjoyable experience, it is more frustrating than anything. You will constantly grab objects you don't want to, fail to grab objects you do want to, the camera randomly jitters around even when you simply walk straight. Collisions are apparently something the programmers have never heard of, and you'll see objects and characters in random orientations colluding with objects everywhere, and you constantly get blocked without understanding why. For instance, when predators jump at you, you can evade them, but most of the time they will jump directly on …2 found this helpful
Its a good game and you should deinetly play if you like monkey sex1 found this helpful
I literally can't stop thinking about this 2020 game.. It is my Roman Empire.1 found this helpful
monke
It's a fun game. Very unpolished, difficult and convoluted enough that the casual market would never have picked up on it, unpolished and unfinished enough that the more hardcore market wouldn't either, but there's a nice nugget of potential here. I like to think if we ever had an Ancestors 2, with a solid budget and a larger, skilled team, it would've been one of the hall of famers. If you're a fan of monke and are willing to be a bit frustrated to enjoy the fun parts of the game, grab it on discount.
I feel like I get where a lot of my primal fears come from now lol
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