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Humankind

Developer: Amplitude Studios Publisher: Sega
17 August 2021
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A Push and Pull
It's very rare that I buy games on release. After some research, I took a chance at purchasing Humankind on release, primarily for the OST. I have small regrets about it.

I initially bought this game as I am a fan of Arnaud Roy's music. I am new to the 4X genre, but the genre isn't very difficult to learn compared to other genres I enjoy.

The most immediate element to note are the visuals. The game has a visually pleasing artistic style. Humankind has beautiful presentation through its artwork and in-game world. Its visual style is as comfortable as a game like Cities: Skylines or Minecraft.

In terms of gameplay, Humankind has a lot of potential. Some factors such as stability require more tweaking. Penalties to stability are easily mitigated by luxury goods. The main issue I've run into is the strategy of culture picks. At a certain point, it feels as if the game is simply solved if you choose the correct cultures. In the early game, the Harappans and Egyptians are considered top tier for growing population or industry respectively. Near the endgame, science cultures such as the French, Swedes, or even the Turks are powerful for farming fame through research. Reaching the end of the research tree gives a good chunk of fame and ends the game. Whilst one could simply avoid these cultures in order to add variety, there's an active acknowledgement of hindering your progress or advantages. To paraphrase an incredibly skilled gamer, known as Alkaizer, on using any game's top strategy: there's little reason to avoid the strongest strategies, especially when it makes sense to use them. Currently, there isn't much of a reason for me to go back to this game, at least for now.

The game has a long way to go balance-wise and also in its small details, whether aesthetically representing the evolution of your culture, fixing technical issues, or in quality of life changes.

For example, the Dia de los Muertos Event has a bug with the "Civil Evolution" challenge. The meter for completion won't increase despite enacting civics in new games. This bug has been in the game for 3 weeks now, since its introduction on the 17th of November to the current time of adding this paragraph, the 11th of December. This is in contrast with Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition, which has only had a single problematic temporary challenge since its release on the 14th of November, 2019.

As previously mentioned, I purchased Humankind to see how Arnaud Roy's work is conveyed within the game and I can say he delivers musically. Arnaud Roy has crafted a diverse orchestral OST with great songwriting. Hidden Soul is one of my personal songs of the year. The music is, by far, one of the greatest parts of the game. However, after my time playing Humankind, I can say it wasn't especially necessary to play the game for its OST. The gameplay itself does not add any extra weight to the message of the music, compared to a game such as Undertale. In the case of Humankind, if you enjoy the music, I recommend simply listening to it by itself. It is not necessary to play this game to understand the context of Arnaud Roy's work.

I expect Humankind to get better over time as long as it maintains updates.
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DiscoNightFever 2021-09-14T18:27:56Z
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I bought this game on Steam. 44 hours played (edit: now 59 hours). I have read a few guides about Humankind. Sometimes I get in-game sound issues/glitches when the game gets a tad overloaded. This game uses 99% of my GPU (1080ti), which appears to be the standard, but that's a lot relative to other games I've played. 5-6/10 is my current score range. I will recommend this game when it receives sizable updates or a price drop.

I have listened to both the Endless Legend and Endless Space 2 OSTs but without any idea of their application. As a result, I purchased Humankind to understand its OST with in-game context.
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Very fun and maybe a bit more dense in its features than the civ games it competes against (especially the combining of the different cultures and districts within cities which has a ton of different combinations. Definitely leaves a huge potential for cheesing the game which should be ironed out.)

However I will say that some mechanics should be ironed out more. Pollution feels like it has hardly any affect and it would be cool to see some actual features based around it instead of just a cap on the amount of things you can build. I think faith and culture should expanded more to create more interesting options and not just be used as a casus belli, and also the civics screen is oftentimes not important at all.

Also the end game is way too slow and basically just doing victory laps for 100 turns if you played your cards right earlier. It can make games a bit of a chore nearing their end. The problem with this is that the victory conditions are a bit ridiculous and you basically have to wait the whole 300 turns unless you conquer every single city in the game (which is hard depending on the map size) or if you played all game as science cultures to get the tech screen fully complete.

Another problem I ran into (which hopefully will be fixed) was a lack of resources on the map. At the end of my last game I couldn't even build contemporary era units because I had no access to two oil resource tiles despite owning three fourths of all the land on the map.

Regardless, I had a lot of fun with the game. My favorite mechanics have to be the city building which feels much more satisfying than any other 4x I've played just because you get to see such a big city sprawl and really turn a city into an industrial center, which gives more potential to build tall than I've ever had the chance to do before. I also highly enjoyed the culture switches upon transitioning to new eras and it gives you a chance to catch up to other players if you're struggling in certain areas.

Overall the game feels very solid on its release, which is more than can be said for most 4x/grand strategy games/civ building games like this, and I'm excited to see all of the new features coming to the game in the future.
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liochi Humankind 2023-11-24T00:06:04Z
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owoyay Humankind 2023-10-15T23:35:56Z
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r0bob Humankind 2023-10-07T06:11:47Z
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  • slib 2021-08-14 22:14:58.436163+00
    so hyped
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    • slib 2021-08-18 21:45:59.8962+00
      way too early for rating such a game focused on replayability but I'm greatly enjoying it.
    • slib 2021-08-19 05:14:57.117787+00
      I missed this on my first playthrough because I didn’t scroll through them all, but you can pick the Dreamcast logo as a custom culture symbol lmao
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  • slib 2021-10-12 23:31:45.192829+00
    Solid base game but it needs some post-launch support and QOL patches to become something great. I think it will tho.
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    • slib 2021-10-12 23:32:57.564999+00
      Harappan bois, wya?
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  • romanticism 2022-08-05 22:54:47.07517+00
    so devoid of personality compared to civ 6, some mechanics are better (combat is much more fun) but everything else is just boring
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  • theironictea 2022-11-22 23:23:58.89116+00
    i really enjoy this game tbh, but never played much strategy games
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  • blurforweebs 2024-01-12 15:45:42.491905+00
    i never got hooked in like when i play civ or endless
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