Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey
Developer Panache Digital
Publisher Private Division
Format PC (tested), PS4, Xbox One
Release Out now
An incidental loading-screen tip in suggests: “Play as if you’re teaching Hominids how to be Homo Sapiens”. It might be the most profound sentence ever to feature while a game’s preparing textures, and provides a neat summary of Patrice Désilets’ ambitious survival action-adventure. Beginning as a primate some nine million years ago, the premise is that you’re guiding your clan not just through the many dangers of your jungle habitat – snakes, poisonous berries, cumbersome traversal controls – but also through aeons of evolution. Against the backdrop of the -alikes and juggernaut franchise releases which and 2008’s , is a better idea than it is a game.
