Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey | One Minute Review

Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is a survival game developed by Panache Digital Games and published by Private Division. It was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One in late 2019, followed by a Steam release in August 2020. It was directed by Patrice Désilets. Set in prehistoric Africa, players control hominin species within the evolutionary lineage of modern humans, and are tasked to ensure their survival and facilitate their evolution.
Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is a survival game played from a third-person view. In the game, players control a member of a hominid clan and have to manage the player character's health by eating, drinking, and sleeping. The game starts in a jungle in prehistoric Africa, an open world filled with threats including Machairodus, Metridiochoerus, Crocodylus thorbjarnarsoni, Adcrocuta hyenas, African rock python, giant Miocene otters, African buffalo, and more. Players can climb trees, and will suffer injuries if they fall down or are attacked by predators. As players progress, new areas are opened up for players to explore. When a hominid is exploring new locations or being hunted by predators, it will enter a state of "fear" which can be overcome by finding glowing orbs of light, or else it will descend into a state of hysteria.
While the world is dangerous, the apes can use their heightened senses to listen to various sounds, such as that of a predator, a lost clan member, or an outsider which can be recruited to the player's clans. The hominid can use its intelligence to pinpoint the locations of different items of interest and make new discoveries such as identifying new food or tools. As players continue to make new discoveries, the hominid become more intelligent and capable, and new skills such as using leaves to make bedding and medicinal plants to heal themselves are unlocked. If the player character dies, players will shift to controlling another clan member. If all clan members die, the lineage becomes extinct and players need to restart the game.
The goal of the player is to ensure the hominid clan's survival as it slowly evolves and becomes a new species. As the clan grows, players can switch to play as other characters such as an infant, an adult, an elder, and a mother carrying her child. As the clan slowly expands, the player character can perform social tasks like calling members of the clan to hunt and explore together, or migrating across the map to settle down in a new home. When an ape is sleeping, players can unlock new abilities by developing the hominid's neural system, which functions as a skill tree. These skills, such as the ability to use both hands and stand upright, facilitate evolution. As hominids undergo procreation, unlocked skills are passed on to future generations. The game is 40 to 50 hours long, and it documents the clan's evolution across eight million years

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[nucleartopics]

yeah ive found that opinions on this game are extremely split, i personally love it

[cyborgparrot]

If they make a new Spore game (or someone else makes a Spore-inspired game that doesn't just remake or cover one specific stage) they should take notes from this for designing the Creature Stage.

[jagj]

It’s confusing at first but I PROMISE stick with it. It’s one of my favorite games ever. I’ve beaten it twice my biggest pro tips:

1. Focus on movement and walking/running genes before ANYTHING else because the map is insanely gigantic.
2. Don’t be afraid to explore, but ALWAYS find the nearest hideout before you move further.
3. Don’t be afraid to evolve, in fact, when your first starting off, you wanna evolve in that first out as much as you receive new babies thus new genes.

[GanZah]

I caught this game on sale for $9.99... $10.40 in total and it's the Best 10 bucks I've spent 👌🏽💯

[ShamuraOfTheOldFaith-sk]

If you ever want to hunt a Eagle/Heron 2 tips are: They don’t attack at night so don’t try, and they will wait a little bit if you attack them.

[gamestorm]

Freakin kitty took three of my clan elders last night, so I took three of them

[Bread-Sliced]

I have completed this game and I’ll admit. Probably one of the best games I’ve ever played. Extremely underrated

[chopsyoutube]

They got the hominids relatively accurate, but the non changing environments over millions of years kinda ruins it for me... still fun tho

[HALOFALLS]

Best part about the game: you dont even havw to evolve ive been on 6, 000, 000 the whole time its been alsome

[EliBurgess-gtly]

I agree with the: "light puzzle elements", but I think u should also add a light horror elements aswell.

[Yuji_itadoritos]

Best game i have buy that for 8€ its Amazing and that a good game for thé survie

[Definitelyantifurryprobably]

My first kill was a cat and i fucking celebrated so fucking loud

[masteroogway]

Yea easy tell the fucking sabertooths stealing people from my gang when I try and move homes

[sandcam]

Getting back into it, spent R600 on it, havent played in years

[walterstleger]

I plplayed this game and I think really scientifically accurate 😊

[oliverwight]

Keep in mind this game was made by only 35 people

[AlternativeHistory]

I don’t understand why I bought it was upset about the premise of this game, I myself as a Christian and I don’t believe in evolution but that doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy this game .

[carmillasheridan]

Freaking big kitty. I was doing amazing until kitty destroyed nearly my entire clan. 🤬