Posted on: November 4, 2025
matthewdean6
Verified ownerGames: 1 Reviews: 1
this game is good
very complicate but fun would recomend
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Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey
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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 this exhilarating new adventure from Panache Digital Games.
Embark on the most incredible odyssey known to humankind: human evolution. Spanning from 10 million to 2 million years ago, begin your journey, before us, in Neogene period Africa. Explore a beautiful yet ruthless world, from swinging through tree branches in the jungle to stalking prey across the golden savannah grasslands. Decide what attributes to learn and hone in order to pass down knowledge to future generations, from crafting tools to enhancing evasive tactics against predators. Just like real life, make sure to eat, drink, and sleep to stay alive and have the energy to face any danger that may come your way.
Grow your clan and find strength in numbers as you progress through critical evolutionary stages of human evolution. Your choices will write your clan’s story and determine if you can survive your evolution.
Explore Ruthless Africa
Explore the never-before-experienced world of Neogene Africa starting 10 million years ago at the dawn of humankind. From the tops of tree canopies overlooking lush jungles to the golden grasslands of the savannah, traverse a beautiful yet unforgiving landscape. For every breath-taking view, beware of the weather, predators, and other dangers that threaten your survival.Expand Your Territory and Grow Your Clan
Increase your chances of survival by uniting new members of your species and giving birth to future generations. Control different clan members, form bonds to create families, and work together to intimidate predators during expeditions. Conquer fear as you explore unknown locations in order to expand your territory.Evolve Through Multiple Generations
See the physical and intellectual evolution of the first hominids as you explore, learn, and survive. Spanning from 10 million to 2 million years ago, play as one of the first hominids and evolve over the course of millions of years during key stages in human evolution. Make crucial discoveries and hone physical abilities that will be passed down to future generations such as Ardipithecus ramidus and Australopithecus.Choose How You Survive
Evolution was not written in stone. Your decisions shape how you will overcome obstacles, increase your species, and what knowledge will pass on to future generations. Focus on specific attributes or choose a more balanced approach to survival. Your clan’s ability to survive will be directly impacted by your choices, making each player’s experience unique.© 2020 Panache Digital Games, Inc. Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is a trademark of Panache Digital Games, Inc. Private Division and the Private Division logo are trademarks of Private Division LLC. All rights reserved.
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19.5 hMain
38.5 h Main + Sides
51.5 h Completionist
38 h All Styles
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Historical, Survival, Crafting, Nature
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Posted on: July 23, 2022
fil-cat
Verified ownerGames: 1902 Reviews: 41
Awesome game!
I love games that explore the prehistoric time frame and early stages of humanity like Far Cry Primal. This one is right up my alley. I also rather like survival games with a realistic challanging backdrop like Green Hell. So this one is just great. Survive, develop and learn (a little bit) about prehistoric history and evolution. And hey ... it come with 8 million years of game time :) In your face AAA-titles :p
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Posted on: January 3, 2025
Benindorn
Verified ownerGames: 701 Reviews: 3
Just not much fun.
It's a tolerable experimental game, but is intentionally obtuse and tedious to figure out. If there were more to do and some reward for it, it might have been a fun game. Unless you enjoy tedium, I suggest passing on this game. Sharp the stone or sharp the stick in a QTE. Kill Animal in a QTE. That's the game.
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Posted on: February 28, 2023
Lord_Vivec_ita
Verified ownerGames: 177 Reviews: 3
Unexcusably bad game design.
No, the supposed "difficulty" and "complexity" of this game does NOT represent the troubles that our ancestors had to deal with. It's just atrocious game design, don't spin it otherwise... As many other reviewers already said, it is a great concept but executed SO badly, this game just doesn't deserve any recognition at all, no matter how good graphics and music it could be, that doesn't make up a videogame. I tried REALLY HARD to like this, I played it with the controller (the absolute first game in over 20 years I ever played with a controller on a PC, I HATE the controller...) to see if interactions and handling get better: it JUST DOESN'T. It never gets better. I don't have a true kink for ranting so I'm not willing to describe everything that's wrong with this game, and SPECIFICALLY IN ITS VERY CORE DESIGN, that's stuff for professional reviewers, which I am not, I'm just a long term passionate gamer that happens to know something about GOOD game design. This game just has none of it, NONE! Let's just see a couple brilliant examples: - you NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU HAVE IN YOUR HANDS. Oh my God, how could this even be acceptable I really don't know!!! You can have an object in each hand. can only use the one in the right hand, but you need **BOTH** hands to do some (very crucial) tasks. Like drinking water, I mean literally. Sounds jerky and unintuitive even to explain, well imagine actually playing it. I really don't recommend trying. You may go "well, just drop your stuff on the ground", well I DO, it's not very safe to do in a prehistoric jungle you know... the fact you can't see what you are carrying is just so clunky I'm not even able to describe it, sometimes I got to infer what that is by checking the prompts. Imagine being a primitive man and not being able to see what you have in your hands, like if you had scotoma or something; how sad. Out of characters, just don't feed into project like this, they are KILLING the whole industry, we deserve MUCH BETTER
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Posted on: April 11, 2023
CaptSpify
Verified ownerGames: Reviews: 11
Poor controls
Despite it says this game has controller support, the controller didn't work for me. The interaction was super confusing. Waaaaaaay too much story and dialog and intro before you get to the actual game. Not much in the way of help once you are there. Seems like a good concept, but it just doesn't land due to the poor controls
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