Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey Reviews

Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is ranked in the 30th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
4.5 / 10.0
Nov 10, 2020

Like Spore before it, Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey falls victim to its own ambition and fails to be engaging. Too much focus is put on the exceptional amount of immersion, that none is spent on making the game fun.

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5 / 10.0
Sep 12, 2020

Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey will give the survival experience to you lightly. It punishes you for being careless, but even more when you go back to the beginning and re-do the same thing all over and over again. Initially, you’ll feel rewarded for learning the game, but it disappointingly ends up in repetition and you’ll eventually just close the game and call it quits for mankind’s evolution.

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6 / 10.0
Aug 13, 2020

Our evolution wasn´t easy, as such Ancestors: The Odyssey of Humanity is not an easy game. Although based on a rather original and interesting idea, the game is quite confusing at first, leading to many not enjoying the game. Moreover, the absence of a campaign makes the game less grater. After all, as we learn how to play, the game can become a little more interesting.

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4.4 / 5.0
Apr 12, 2020

The story of our evolution as a species is brought to life in this beautifully crafted third-person open-world survival adventure.

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6 / 10.0
Mar 11, 2020

Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey aims to tackle the evolution of mankind from our animal forebears, a hefty task for any one piece of media. While the goal is incredibly admirable, Panache Digital Games puts too much on its plate.

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7 / 10.0
Jan 17, 2020

Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is quite a nice game if you are willing to spend time to learn it. It's not easy, because of lack of communication with player. If you dare though, it will provide satisfying and one-of-a-kind gameplay experience.

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Avoid
Jan 8, 2020

Ancestors certainly tries to do something different and is admittedly based on a fairly original and fresh idea, but unfortunately its held back by over-ambition, among many other fundamental problems.

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Lee Mehr
Top Critic
4 / 10
Jan 8, 2020

An interesting specimen that would’ve benefitted from annoying tedium and clunky controls being weeded out of its gene pool.

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6 / 10.0
Jan 7, 2020

Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is a fun game to experiment with but if you get frustrated easily I wouldn't recommend this. For anyone looking for a challenge or fans of survival games, this will be right up your ally! To me, the game is worth a try for the experience but that doesn't mean it has no flaws there as there are a few of them, but at the same time, the game can be very rewarding.

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GameZone
Top Critic
4 / 10.0
Dec 30, 2019

Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is a game that wanted to be so much but in that desire ended up being so little. A repetitive cycle of slowly walking around the jungle avoiding predators while visiting landmarks that all look the same and cranking out babies that know just a little bit more than their parents. It's a game that achieved nothing but mediocracy despite its legendary pedigree.

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65 / 100
Dec 27, 2019

Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey brings a bold and innovative proposal in terms of the theme and mechanics of experimentation and exploration of an inhospitable and dangerous environment, but it carries too much in some of these aspects and, above all, in the need for numerous iterations, which take the game to a sameness that soon replaces the sense of novelty of the early hours.

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6 / 10.0
Dec 16, 2019

While the idea of being able to influence the evolution of your clan of apes seems novel and exciting the reality is that it's a bit of a repetitive slog. Through bad decisions or sheer bad luck, it's far too easy to wipe out your whole clan which means that you'll have to start all over again from the beginning. It's an interesting experience but one that's tough to recommend to anyone but the most patient of gamers.

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6.5 / 10.0
Dec 14, 2019

I briefly felt prepared to give a bad rating to the game after experiencing so much frustration, but that would not be fair to this game in the least. It would be ignoring the joy and discovery inherent to many actions in the game.

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75 / 100
Dec 10, 2019

The evolution simulator offers a lively, original world, but grind and half-baked ideas leave a bland aftertaste.

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Gamers Heroes
Johnny Hurricane
Top Critic
60 / 100
Dec 10, 2019

Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey has some good ideas, but the slow pace and repetitive gameplay will wear you down quickly. Watch some gameplay footage before picking this one up.

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Dec 9, 2019

Ancestors rejects mass appeal and instead favors a grueling but awe-inspiring look at our earliest ancestors.

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6.5 / 10.0
Dec 9, 2019

The things that make Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey so appealing are the same thing that make it frustrating. Many things stand in the way of your progress, many of those things being mechanics, and rewards come sparingly. At the same time, there is something wholly unique here that, if you can properly sink your teeth into it, you could find yourself completely engulfed in it.

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Dec 7, 2019

Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is a great survival game with an extremely steep learning curve.

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76 / 100
Dec 6, 2019

Ancestors is more than a survival game. Panache Digital developed some interesting mechanics about evolution, learning and neuronal development. Bt the game has technical issues and gets repetitive after a few hours.

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8 / 10.0
Dec 6, 2019

Ancestors The Humankind Odissey is tough to master but fascinating to play, thanks to the freedom of its atypical open world. Every discovery becomes an exciting moment, although not always easily interpretable; in addition, the later release of the console version allowed the developers to improve it in all its features.

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