It’s a game not just of cities, but of outposts. They mesh together well, but it’s a couple original ideas that impressed me most: the way the game handles cities is stellar, and the way combat is handled keeps fighting interesting regardless of each parties’ technological advances. However, it quickly becomes apparent that Humankind has a wider pool of interests than just Firaxis’ series, despite the aesthetic similarities. After the briefest of tutorials I fell back on years of Civ knowledge and found myself able to easily play the game, but if you look at any of these screenshots you could be fooled into thinking you were looking at Civ. This shouldn’t be surprising, Humankind is fairly blatantly Civilization, taking cues from the game for a tech tree, UI, and even the way you move your tiny men around to paint the map a more amenable colour. These are backed up by narrative pop-ups similar to something seen in Hearts Of Iron 4 or Stellaris: narrative missives that help you set the path for the way your society works, whether it’s how you deal with a thief hoarding supplies in your small settlement, or how your leader will deal with fame in the digital age of a huge empire.ĭespite all of these complex systems, it plays out much the same as a standard game of Civ. All of your holy sites and all of your faith generation amounts to nothing as you approach the contemporary era because, hey, religion just isn’t given the same weight anymore. It feels essential in the early game, but eventually you’ll progress past it, either embracing the religion as an antiquity, or setting your culture into Atheism. Later, you’ll progress past that as your researchers discover organised labour, sparing your population from being grist to the construction mill. During your progress through the tech tree you’ll gain the ability to sacrifice members of the population through overwork to finish a building. Humankind exudes confidence in the way that it brings fully fleshed out elements for a short time in each game before doing away with them. Over time, the ability to hunt animals and interact with these tribes fades away as you start to focus more on the culture of politicking. Game elements also fade in and out – early on you’ll interact with independent tribes, paying them off with influence or gold to become their patron, before either hiring them as mercenaries or using a shedload of influence to just absorb them into your empires. You can’t build them anymore – they’re in your culture’s past – but they continue to influence how you play.
As you shed your old cultures, you keep the ability to produce their unique units, and you still get benefits from their previous buildings. You’ll pick a new culture to transcend into with each era, meaning you could start as the science-driven Babylonians but over time end up embodying the culture of the Medieval British (their farmers provide manufacturing power) before finally, in the contemporary era, settling into a Japanese way of life.Įach culture has their own unique bonus, units and buildings. READ MORE: ‘Glitchpunk’ offers a cyberpunk take on both ‘Grand Theft Auto’ and early access instabilityįrom your first moments as a Neolithic tribe, exploring the land, skirmishing with the other tribes, and even trying to hunt the occasional elephant, you’re constantly thinking about the future. The difference is, Humankind makes you consider the legacy you leave behind. H umankind, like most of the 4X games – that’s Explore, Expand, Exploit, and Exterminate, to save you the Google – it takes inspiration from, is a game about building empires.
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