HUMANKIND Free Download (v1.0.13.2721)

Combine up to 60 historical cultures as you lead your people from the Ancient to the Modern Age. From humble origins as a Neolithic tribe, transition to the Ancient Era as the Babylonians, become the Classical era Mayans, the Medieval Umayyads, the Early Modern era British, and so on. Each culture will add its own special gameplay layer, leading to near-endless outcomes. MORE THAN HISTORY, IT’S YOUR STORY Face historical events, take impactful moral decisions, and make scientific breakthroughs. Discover the natural wonders of the world or build the most remarkable creations of humankind. Each game element is historically authentic. Combine them to build your own vision of the world. LEAVE YOUR MARK ON THE WORLD The journey matters more than destination. Fame is a new and unifying victory condition. Every great deed you accomplish, every moral choice you make, every battle won will build your fame and leave a lasting impact on the world. The player with the most fame will win the game. Will you be the one to leave the deepest mark on the world? feels like it wants a system like Stellaris where you might be developing 3 things at once rather than dedicating 10 tears to the concept of trench warfare (which doesn’t even make much sense for a ‘technology,’ but never mind that). The result is this game having moments of real fun and flash (it actually is a good combat system and you can win fights you have no business winning or lose fights you have no business losing on the tactical level, rather than mashing units together) but otherwise the journey is mostly a horrible slog because its a constant battle to keep up with earning era stars.

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Each battle in HUMANKIND™ plays out like a mini turn-based board game on top of the actual world map. Unstack your armies and command each of your units, including the emblematic units of your culture and their special abilities. Construct siege weapons to besiege and occupy cities. Fight in large battles spanning multiple turns, and don’t hesitate to bring in reinforcements! CUSTOMIZE YOUR LEADER In HUMANKIND™, you’ll be playing the leader of your society as an avatar that you create and customize! Your avatar will evolve visually over the course of the game as your civilization develops. You’ll also be able to level up your leader via a meta-progression system to unlock custom looks that you can showoff to strangers and friends alike in multiplayer matches up to 8 players. specialized troops coming along too late in any given age, resulting in you mostly fielding masses of the same units) until you get to the industrial era, where you FINALLY start seeing some new mechanics in the form of pollution. But even that barely nudges anything, and its only the contemporary era where the game actually opens up... Which is a huge problem because the contemporary era is very short, most of your opponents will not be in it leading to a steamroll, and also you almost certainly won’t be able to actually have your technology IN the contemporary era if you reach it in time to actually start scooping tech from it before the AI reaches it and starts to tick down the time limit for the game. Tech costs are just too aggressively scaled and there isn’t

The appeal of the game is creating a custom civilization over time, mixing the strengths of different cultures as you evolve over time. However, there is a radical imbalance among the civilizations and different strategies that result in most eras having a few ‘correct’ choices: Doesn’t matter how much you wanna play around money and sailing, the Phoenicians just stink. The other issue with this concept is your civilizations never feel melded into each other. Civilization bonuses scale over time, which is reasonable, but they do so with such insane aggression that your early civilizations almost immediately feel irrelevant to your overall strategy by even the next age, and the main reason to pick one is for an overpowered unit or short term bonus. This makes it feel less like you customizing your civilization over time, and more like a race to get to each age as fast as you can in order to secure important bonuses (and wonders, the imbalance between the wonders is its own issue but at least those are an explicit race).

This compounds the other big issue with the game: A distinct lack of progression. The vast, vast, VAST majority of your time in any given game is going to be going from the age of antiquity to classical, medieval, and then early modern, which all play nearly identically to each other and have no real sense of escalation or variation. You mostly are slogging through ‘keeping up’ with escalating costs with units that are all fairly tight in power level (with signature units being… quite a bit way too strong, and

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