Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☑ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS
---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't
---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf
---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma
---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☐ Decent
☑ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☑ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data
---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☑ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls
---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☑ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding
---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☑ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life
---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☑ Average
☐ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond
---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money
---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs
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Great game. They oughta make a sequel, cause it feels like humankind’s journey is not complete yet

***might contain spoilers to the game mechanics***

Unique game that throws you into the “shoes” of individuals in our ancestral lineage. The game mostly revolves around a small tribe of individuals and you get to play as one of them in a lone wolf type of gameplay, or as the leader of the tribe, leading the group to scavenge, hunt and explore. The game is a survival based game and similar to our ancestors, you are an easy pray, but as you gain experience, a neuronal energy, your character develops and learns new skills, even how to counter predators. In order to speed the development, you can carry up to two infants with you to gain more of the neuronal energy.
Unlike other games, where your playable character is permanently improved, here everything gets lost, unless you pass the generation and eventually evolve. In order to evolve your species efficiently, you need to gather mutations and fyi you can load up 3 adults with 6 infants, when you mutate your offsprings.
Additionally, the developers really did their job when going through anthropological facts. In this regard, the game gives you an introductory information about human evolution. Unfortunately, they get many things wrong and it is important to note some examples, such as the Australopithecus species is not our ancestor, rather a dead end branch in our ancestral tree. Another downside is that evolution is not linear and does not jump from species to species. On the other hand, the mechanics regarding omnivorous behaviour and bipedalism are well implemented and, as it was with our ancesters, greatly improve humans “game”.

I bought at the discount for about 10 euro. It was one of the best games I have ever played. I enjoyed it even more, because it reminded me a lot from what I have studied in my majors. If there are any DLCs going forward, I am definitely in. Great job, developers!

As a paleontology enthusiast, and fascinated about what the human evolution experience might have been like, this is one of the best games I've ever played in my many decades of game playing. Top 10, easy.
Be careful, I played it obsessively for some three straight weeks. Could not get enough of it, like a vacation in pre-history.Absolutely amazing.
The interface is clunky, hard to select specific tribe members when standing above sleeping spots, when multiple items are lying on the same spot, that needs improvement,etc, but none of that really mattered.

Devs please revisit this game. The thought and love put into is clearly visible. You clearly wanted to make a great product which you did but the game could use updates. Your fan base love it but its missing some polish. I enjoyed not having all the answers to how to do something even though its possible and having to figure it out. You've got fans of this game and youre missing out on some of your crowd due to frustration. Some people just want to play the story. Expansions would be great. The thought of progressing even further would be great. Evolution concepts would be spectacular. Please read your player base critiques and try to cater as best as possible. I dont' know if this idea is dead but you made a great game i would recommend but whats next?

The absolute joy this game gave me was insane. I agree a lot of the late game is really boring and is just a checklist to get those last achievements, the last area being especially dull and empty of anything interesting, but damn! The first and middle/early late section of the game for me was just mythical, exploring and learning new things often the hard way, wandering around constantly watching my back to make sure a predator wasn't stalking me was a surreal feeling. You could just sense something was stalking you in the long grass or waters edge and for a game to pull that off so well, for me is very impressive.
I had one white sabertooth target my family for a whole generation, it would hang out around my home and pick off my family members one by one and it wasn't until the next generation I was finally able to kill it, leaving me with a great sense of accomplishment. Dragging this spear ridden big cat down and caving it's skull in after what felt like a life time of being hunted by this beast was probably the greatest highlight for me with this game.
I was screaming like an ape behind my computer screen rejoicing in it's demise XD

I played long enough to make my apes smart and strong so I don't really understand complaints saying "The game won't tell you what to do" well, it's your journey, you decide to do whatever you want. It's all up to you to figure out and discover something. You just don't have the patience.
At first I was also confused as well. What am I gonna do? I can't do this? so maybe that? Nope, I can't as well. I fell from a tree and died. Got attacked by anaconda and died. I was bleeding dunno what to do and died. It keeps happening but hey, at least I learnt something new. Now I can kill anaconda that killed me before, even the sabertooth. I know what to do if my apes bleed, have broken bones, get cold etc. My apes only died from old age. You will learn it slowly. Just like the monke.