Instead of combat boiling down to just amassing huge blobs composed of different military units and beating your enemy with sheer numbers, you’ll be going for the thinking person’s approach, and using different unit types to counteract others (for instance, spearmen are excellent against cavalry, but may not be as good when facing heavy infantry). These first brutal turns are also a great time to get acquainted with Humankind‘s tactical combat, which is yet another thing that sets it apart from its competitors.

Compared to Civilization‘s more relaxed approach to the first few turns, Humankind goes all in into a race that will not only define who’s the first to enter the Ancient Era, but also who gets to pick the most interesting nations, since our starting Neolithic tribe has no real traits of its own, and only the first “evolution” of sorts that we’ll experience will start to define our playstyle (at least for the first Era). Of course, to just say Humankind is Civilization but with the option to change your empire at every new age would be incredibly reductionist, but we have to start somewhere.Īnd what could be a better time to start charting a path for humanity’s brightest civilizations than the Neolithic Era? Because that’s what you’ll do at the beginning of Humankind, since every player starts out as a small tribe hunting for food and looking for a suitable place to pitch their camp and evolve into a proto-state. Have you ever played Civilization and wondered how different the game would be if it went for the slightly more realistic approach of letting you evolve your faction across the ages, picking and choosing from the most iconic civilizations of each period? Amplitude Studios seems to have focused on that when they decided to build a historical strategy title after years of making excellent sci-fi/fantasy games.

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