7 Grand Steps: What Ancients Begat
What Ancients Begat is a complete (~15 hour) game of family generations surviving the rise of western civilization. Survival is the ultimate goal. The sub-goals, you choose, build their story. Experience an…
7 Grand Steps: What Ancients Begat is an indie developed by Mousechief, released 5 May 2013 on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 5 hrs to finish.
What 7 Grand Steps: What Ancients Begat is
7 Grand Steps: What Ancients Begat is an indie game developed by Mousechief and released in 2013. It is available on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
What Ancients Begat is a complete (~15 hour) game of family generations surviving the rise of western civilization. Survival is the ultimate goal. The sub-goals, you choose, build their story. Experience an abstract telling of the lives of our earliest recorded ancestors. Part board game, part machine, part nod to computer games of yore, it begins with a simple mechanic. Spend tokens to traverse the wheel of life. Earn tokens by tempting the jaws of death. Then, like layers upon a pearl, game play expands, introducing fresh tactics and strategies which, turn by turn, drive a sophisticated, emergent narrative. How you play defines the lives of one family's generations through the changing…
How it plays
It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
7 Grand Steps: What Ancients Begat holds a critic score of 40 out of 100. That places it above 3% of the 5,099 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 30 points below the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 5 hrs.
What it launched against
7 Grand Steps: What Ancients Begat launched on 5 May 2013, within three weeks of Metro: Last Light, Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen, Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon and Don't Starve. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Metro: Last Light, Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen, Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, Don't Starve.
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