The Ancients
GorillaSoftWorks · 2024 · Strategy, Turn-Based Strategy, Historical, Exploration, PvE
PC
Mixed55% · 20 📉 Recent reviews down 39%
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About The Ancients
Create a civilization to survive throughout the ages
Explore Earth in prehistoric times. The continents are shifting, the last ice age is coming. Fierce predators prowl the land. Lead your tribe to survive against the harsh world.
Survive An Unforgiving Planet
- Survive through the seasons in the harsh conditions of prehistoric earth.
- Protect your tribe from wild animals, cold winters, drought, and ensure they feel safe.
- Forage for food and resources to keep your clans healthy and fed.
Eat Or Be Eaten
- Hunt historic wild creatures, and discover new ones as you migrate.
- Hexagon map tiles for strategic tactical battles with multiple clans.
- Learn about prehistoric animals with tooltips that are native to each region.
Advance Your Tribe
- Advance your tribe into a civilized society with tools, weapons, and shelter to usher in the new age.
- Research primitive technology, and craft new tools according to your geographical needs.
- Witness the historical development of humanity or create your own history.
Evolve Your Civilization
- Discover your own language and build an identity for your tribe so your people will feel united.
- Create fundamental religious ideas and combine them to create your own spiritual beliefs.
- Build your own culture, make your tribe patriarchal or matriarchal, polygamous or monogamous, and more.
Migrate To New Regions
- Migrate to different nodes on Earth, even the most challenging climates, and try to survive in whatever biome you travel through.
- Lose or gain additional clans and members, and strategize how to effectively use each one.
You are in full control of how you shape your tribe, and ultimately humanity. Will you be able to survive and thrive?
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What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
This game wasn't put out in early access in the sense that it would be developed. It was just put out for whatever cash could be generated. There were a few hotfixes, but nothing substantive as in a 'roadmap' to release. It is dead now and far from in a playable state. Many crashes, little in the way of tutorial or help. And many bugs. A good concept. a tech tree, and some interesting mechanics. But don't be tempted. It just isn't playable. Could've been, but devs gave up.17 found this helpful
game is in a very very very alpha state with no answer from DEVs for more than 7 months. Dont buy it :(9 found this helpful
I want my $20 back. This game is sold then no updates. ♥♥♥♥ move.8 found this helpful
Maybe I'm missing something, but it felt like the game is micromanaging cavemen. I got bored with it pretty quickly. The hunter gatherer lifestyle doesn't really appeal to me. I didn't really care what happened to my tribe so when they died it didn't seem like a big deal. Maybe this needs something to make you connect with the ancients more. Perhaps card events with individual tribesmen like Thea has. Whatever they do it definitely needs something more.3 found this helpful
An interesting idea, but not fleshed out at all and with weird balance UI (Expect to fail the 'Basic Tutorial' because of poor sequencing). Came back to this to see if any work had been done, but the game seems to be abandoned. Sad miss here.
Well... Definitely early access. Is it recommendable at this stage? Depends. The gameplay is solid. The theme is awesome and well implemented. Very buggy still and performance needs more work. I played on an i9, 32GB 4070 graphics and still had to lower specs to run properly. A hard game to learn. I died more times than I could keep count of. But oddly enough I had fun dying. I really hope the developers continue their work on this, as nothing like it exist. It's a complicated game and the tutorial part needs fleshing out with more crafting examples etc. I initially gave up on the game, partly because of the difficulty (there are no difficulty settings), and partly because of the bugginess. But alas, here I am not able to get the game out of my head. It's actually THAT interesting. Are the negative reviews fair? Is this Early Access perhaps too early? More an alpha test stage than open beta perhaps? Either way, it is recommended if you love the theme and want to support the developers finish the project.
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