To survive that long, you need to manage how much you eat, drink, and sleep while also steering clear of predators and taking care of injuries. You play as a member of an ape clan in 10 million BC Africa, and you try to ensure your lineage continues through to two million BC-the time period archaeologists say our ancestors' evolution finally transitioned us from ape-like beings into a new, more human species. Though the game fulfills its promise to do the former, it fails to deliver a compelling reason as to why you'd even want to rise up to the challenge of the latter. Ancestors prides itself on giving you as little information as it can and daring you to rely on your ingenuity and resourcefulness to survive. My time with the game saw me suffer similarly disorienting fates over and over, testing me to figure out what I'd done wrong and then do my best to adapt. As it turns out, that first journey through the confusion of a dangerous jungle, blindly limping in different directions in hopes of finding someone to help me, is a fairly accurate depiction of what your journey in Ancestors will regularly entail. I began to wander and, thankfully, about 30 minutes later I found the rest of my clan.Īt first, I believed the entire ordeal was simply a poor start. I had absolutely no idea what I was supposed to do or where I should go. Not knowing what to do, I couldn't respond in time, and my ape was left alone, scared, hallucinating, bleeding, and poisoned, my screen a milky display of dark green and shifting shadows.
Before I could finish reading the message detailing my very first objective, a warning popped up and demanded I dodge out of the way-of what, I couldn't be sure. My first foray into Panache Digital's survival game began as a young ape alone in a dark forest, the imagined laughs of hyenas and snarls of tigers echoing in the trees in a confusing cacophony. Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey sure isn't afraid of throwing you into the deep end.
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