Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey: The Most Interesting Game in Ages?

There have been many formal reviews of Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey (out now) by critics rushing to their posts out, highlighting a few of the typical grievances about open-world games: how long they can take to get started, how some of the mechanics can seem repetitive…

But wait a moment, Ancestors is a brand new open-world game, and a survival game. Isn’t it supposed to be intuitive, exploratory, and require more time and attention? Why might the title include the word Odyssey after all? Won’t there be some aspects that get ironed out over time, as more players come to experience it? Remember that other game ‘ No Man’s Sky’?

So then, you read what many of the actual reviews by players are saying (on Amazon, Google etc) and they paint a much more positive picture of this game. It’s refreshing, it’s highly adventurous and surprising, where the environment is the key aspect: it exerts a deep influence over your decisions and characters, who were once ‘us’ — the troubled apes of our ancestors.

[Yes, that’s right, we all evolved from apes. Sorry, but that’s just scientific truth. And finally we get a game that highlights this connection and our adaptations since.]