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So, You start out taking control of a tribe member in your waterfall home but you can switch between any of the tribe if you wish in the early stages of the game, you'll be foraging for food, figuring out what you can and can't eat, locating clean drinking water and generally exploring, experimenting and trying to figure out how things work. The game doesn't hold your hand so be prepared to feel like a simple primate who has no idea what they're doing. So it's a slow burner of an experience but the more you play the more your tribe will learn about their surroundings. Exploration is the key and uncovering new areas will make your primates feel stressed at first. So, you'll have to figure out how to familiarize yourself with these new scary regions otherwise, your tribe member will freak out. Thankfully traversing the jungle region in the beginning is an enjoyable experience and using the trees is essential as dangerous predators laying weight on the ground. You can intimidate some creatures though but weapons aren't available until you evolve, and evolution happens at night once you build up enough experience you can improve the neural activity of your tribe by unlocking two-handed abilities, better communication skills, and heightened senses which are all essential for survival. You can use your intelligence to sense danger or discoverable items, the same applies for hearing and these skills really help in the survival and the evolution of your tribe in the long run. Now that all might sound fairly simple but in the beginning when you're working stuff out it's amazing how quickly you can lose tribe members and if all of them die it's game over. You can form couples to bring new children into the tribe. You can pick up items and investigate their properties and even find precious stones that will make you more likely to mate or be braver in certain situations.
So, on my first playthrough, I lasted about eight hours I fell out of the trees died of old age or exhaustion or just got swallowed by giant snakes and this is not an easy game that you're going to breeze through it takes time to evolve and what to work out how the system works and also you don't have a map of the area so you have to orientate yourself based on your experience. You know you will feel quite stupid at first like you'll pick up a rock and hit it with another rock and nothing's happening or you'll find a piece of wood you want to turn into a spear but you can't figure it out and it's good at making kind of the basic stuff challenging but that's really the point of the game it's trying to replicate what it was like for our ancestors, how the small steps over time led to a big change in evolution and in that regard it's very original as I don't really recall another game where you play like a multi-generational survival experience. Yes, it's got typical survival elements like eating, drinking, relocating your tribe to a new base, learning how to craft, etc but it's much more than a survival game it's something fresh and new and it does a great job of recreating a kind of primitive life and how that process of evolution would have felt like.
However, it's not all good. The game can be a bit of a chore and in the beginning even once you progress a little bit it is very very slow stuff. You'll definitely need a lot of patience and to be interested in this type of experience because it's not a quick fix experience it's very slow very methodical but ultimately quite satisfying.
If we talk about the graphics, Graphically the game looks good rather than spectacular on the surface the lush screen jungles look really good but when you get closer things aren't that amazing and the detail is a bit different you know it's not bad but it doesn't quite hold up. The camera work mostly is fine but it does get stuck behind objects at times and the primates look pretty realistic their movements are good and it all comes across in a kind of realistic way. The game features some nice earthy music although some tracks feel like they're from a bad chill-out album. The primitive voices are great and communication is the key in this game if you call out to a tribe member they hear you, they'll call back and it's small details like that really make it feel like a real experience.
It's a unique survival experience. The game is a genuine challenge, the level traversal is smooth, the way you unlock new abilities is well-paced and it's a very relaxing and chilled experience. While the game can be a bit of a chore the interest levels do slide after the initial kind of 10 hours or so. It is not the most exciting game to play and the progression is a little bit too obscure at times.
Let's move to Verdict, Ancestors The Humankind Odyssey is a very original piece of work it's a unique take on the survival genre as it encompasses a multi-generational aspect of survival. It's far from perfect but it's almost a new genre of game in itself so it was never going to be perfect but I did enjoy it to a degree you know slowly figuring out how to make tools, how to open up the map, how to get to new regions migrations evolutions. It's slow going but it is satisfying, in the end, it isn't riveting you know it's not the most thrilling moments in gaming but it has a kind of satisfactory reward mechanism and personally if you have patient and you like survival and you are interested in the kind of primate evolution I'd say it's definitely worth having a look at.
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WOW this is my kind of game. I love the games that as you go along you evolve and learn a lot and all without the help of just a little bit of logic. Very good review.
I will take into account what you said and I would like you to read a Review of one of the games of The Elder Scrolls but before Skirym, like Morrowind
I will definitely take a look . Thank you for reading the review.
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