Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey
Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is a single-player survival game played from a third-person view and set in an open world. Players control a member of a hominid clan and manage its needs by eating, drinking…
Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is an adventure developed by Panache Digital Games, released 27 August 2019 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 39 hrs to finish.
What Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is
Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is an adventure game developed by Panache Digital Games and released in 2019. It was published by Private Division. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 4.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Set in the jungles of prehistoric Africa around ten million years ago, the game places the player in control of a clan of hominins, early members of the evolutionary line leading to modern humans. The world is an open, dangerous wilderness filled with predators and natural hazards, where every foraging trip, climb, and encounter carries risk. The player's goal is to keep the clan alive and guide it as it slowly grows, learns, and evolves. By exploring, making discoveries, developing new skills, and raising new generations, the clan gradually advances across a vast span of time toward becoming something new.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, open world and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 13 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey holds a critic score of 65 out of 100. That places it above 24% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 4 points below the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 68, across 66 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 39 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 52 hrs, roughly 1.3 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i5-2500K or AMD Phenom II X6 1100T, 8 GB RAM and GeForce GTX 760 (4GB) or Radeon HD 7950 (3GB). An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey launched on 27 August 2019, within three weeks of Control, Borderlands 3, GreedFall and Gears 5. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 6 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Control, Borderlands 3, GreedFall, Gears 5.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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