Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey

Survive your evolution in Neogene Africa starting 10 million years ago. 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 the exciting new adventure from Panache Digital Games.

Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is a open world survival craft, survival and exploration game developed by Panache Digital Games and published by Private Division.
Released on August 27th 2020 is available only on Windows in 13 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.

It has received 9,754 reviews of which 7,642 were positive and 2,112 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.7 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 39.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey into these genres:

Open World Survival Craft Survival Exploration Open World Singleplayer Adventure Crafting Simulation Atmospheric RPG Action Third Person Nature Immersive Sim Historical Choices Matter Science Indie Action-Adventure Multiplayer

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS *: Windows 7 Sp1 64-bit
Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K or AMD Phenom II X6 1100T
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: GeForce GTX 760 (4GB) or Radeon HD 7950 (3GB)

Reviews

Explore reviews from Steam users sharing their experiences and what they love about the game.

Sept. 2024

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?

June 2024

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.

May 2024

***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!

May 2024

---{ 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 ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☑ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10

March 2024

Pros: I love that there's no map screen and you have to figure things out intuitively. It makes this game very immersive. The leveling of neurons to actually effect basic motor coordination like using two hands or swapping while moving make me feel like I'm really evolving. It can get a little redundant once you figure out how it works-gen up, make 6 babies,examine dead elders, gen up again-but I think the game does a great job of capping this with skills to grind, forcing you to explore and get lost in a beautiful landscape of immersive biomes. I also greatly appreciate them staying as close to scientific accuracy as they can. Though, some phrases seem very dumbed down like, "faster than science." My only complaint about this game is that its goal is to evolve "faster than science." Let's pretend that's the proper way to word "faster than nature" or whatever. The game rewards (actually penalizes) you with years for accomplishing feats, then pats you on the back with new forms until you quickly reach the final evolution-an unplayable species-without having explored/achieved everything with so many skills left to learn. From that save you cannot use the evolve feature to lock in new mutations without it ending the game. There have been updates since I last beat it, so maybe it's been fixed. If not, it seems the most efficient leveling for skills is to explore as slowly as possible, make as many micro evolutions as you can, and kill off any elders without mutations to keep the time slider from ending the game too soon . What I'd like to see in updates or sequels: -Other groups of hominids encountered -DLC -Seasons. This could be a bit much -projectile crafting . Obviously, later species/sequels -Free roam as final species to continue exploring -Contagious illnesses . Might be too much -Fire in some usable context -Dang monkeys that all listen when I tell them to scoop mud! lol Great game ! One of my all time favs! I'm very much looking forward to an expansion or sequel, though it's been a while and there seems to be no word of it yet

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