Posted December 20, 2020
Hello!
Official site: https://humankind.game/
Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1124300/HUMANKIND/
Disclaimer: I looked for threads related to this subject, and couldn't find any. Apologies if I missed one.
I just discovered this game. It looks like a clone of Civilization, but from what I've seen it's at the very minimum competent. The landscape is detailed and gorgeous. Although it's not quite perfect yet. One screenshot shows a building on a cliff, and only half the building is on solid ground. Another screenshot shows an impossible farm growing on the slanted side of a mountain. There's also a screenshot of a mesoamerican civ with trebuchets and steel clad knights. Another issue this game currently shares with the Civ series. The release is set for April 22 2021, on Steam, Stadia, and Epic. I'm wondering if this game will be able to fight the Civ series. Like if this proves to be better, if people would stick with Sid Meier's games just for the brand name. I remember seeing that with other games, including table top RPGs.
The game boasts 60 different civs. Vanilla Civ VI has only 18. If you are currently eyeballing Civ VI, I'd say wait for this. It looks like it functions in the same way to Civ. You get resources each turn, build wonders, and so on. You start as ice age nomads and work your way to modern day. It's also a little more restrictive with how many cities you can build. You can play a...beta? Alpha? I'm not sure what stage this is in ATM. Anyway, you can play a version of it now on something called Lucy Opendev. I've never heard of this program before encountering this game. I think it's something that lets you give feedback directly to the devs. I can't find a summary of it, and google only shows results related to this game. You can only play the alpha/beta if you pre-order the game. Thoughts?
Official site: https://humankind.game/
Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1124300/HUMANKIND/
Disclaimer: I looked for threads related to this subject, and couldn't find any. Apologies if I missed one.
I just discovered this game. It looks like a clone of Civilization, but from what I've seen it's at the very minimum competent. The landscape is detailed and gorgeous. Although it's not quite perfect yet. One screenshot shows a building on a cliff, and only half the building is on solid ground. Another screenshot shows an impossible farm growing on the slanted side of a mountain. There's also a screenshot of a mesoamerican civ with trebuchets and steel clad knights. Another issue this game currently shares with the Civ series. The release is set for April 22 2021, on Steam, Stadia, and Epic. I'm wondering if this game will be able to fight the Civ series. Like if this proves to be better, if people would stick with Sid Meier's games just for the brand name. I remember seeing that with other games, including table top RPGs.
The game boasts 60 different civs. Vanilla Civ VI has only 18. If you are currently eyeballing Civ VI, I'd say wait for this. It looks like it functions in the same way to Civ. You get resources each turn, build wonders, and so on. You start as ice age nomads and work your way to modern day. It's also a little more restrictive with how many cities you can build. You can play a...beta? Alpha? I'm not sure what stage this is in ATM. Anyway, you can play a version of it now on something called Lucy Opendev. I've never heard of this program before encountering this game. I think it's something that lets you give feedback directly to the devs. I can't find a summary of it, and google only shows results related to this game. You can only play the alpha/beta if you pre-order the game. Thoughts?
