
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. 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. Explore a beautiful yet ruthless world, from swinging through tree branches in the jungle to stalking prey across the golden savannah grasslands. Spanning from 10 million to 2 million years ago, begin your journey, before us, in Neogene period Africa. Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is an INCREDIBLE game, and the world is intricate and well planned.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.Įmbark on the most incredible odyssey known to humankind: human evolution. This is a deep and intense Survival Simulator, the apes didn't get tutorials how to smash the right two rocks together to make a sharper rock, to beat on a stick to make a spear, so neither do you. Losing an entire clan is the toughest part of this game, as it causes you to have to start all the way over (from any starting area you've unlocked) Having to re-learn everything can get frustrating at times, as the game gives you no direction whatsoever. Once you hit certain points on the tree, you progress time forward. As your apes learn, they gain neural energy, used to build the neurons in the skill tree.

The further you manage to travel from the first destination you unlock new starting areas. This is the one true joy I had during my evolutionary path, the exploration. The world is massive and beautifully rendered. You will figure out how to make sticks, bash open coconuts, and everything else that brought us forward towards the technology we have today.


Your job in Ancestors is for your clan to survive 3 million years! You do this by evolution. Once this excitement is over, you begin your journey through time. Once you find a safe hiding spot, you're then moved to another ape, an adult, from your tribe and are tasked with the job of finding the lost baby. You're in a dark jungle, in the rain, with hallucinatory faces of evil emerging from nowhere (which happens when your ape is terrified).

You start the game as a baby ape, scared and left alone from a predator's attack. You start the game as a baby ape, Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is a First-Person Survival Simulation set at the dawn of Human Evolution. Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is a First-Person Survival Simulation set at the dawn of Human Evolution.
