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. Then it is surely worth it if you like games like spore.Īncestors: The Humankind Odyssey is a First-Person Survival Simulation set at the dawn of Human Evolution. If you are okay with some tedium in your games. As you start to get attached to your apes and really care about their fate.

It does a poor job of telling you what your goal is. What the game doesn't tell you is that in order to evolve you must complete evolution objectives(Like kill every predator) that advance years in the game once you pass generations. Once you figure out how its systems work, it is a very rewarding if not tedious game. The game is mostly about discovery as it does not tell you exactly how to do most things, some of which you need in order to survive. The survival mechanics are also very well developed, it took me awhile to figure out how to eat a coconut instead of just drinking it. The climbing mechanics are almost spot on, very similar to assassins creed. It has you playing as a group of apes that eventually evolves to become human. Ancestors the humankind odyssey is a game that is truly a diamond in the rough in terms of PS games.

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