- Publisher: Enhance Games
- Release Date: May 16, 2023
- Also On: Meta Quest, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X
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May 22, 2023Ultimately, focusing too closely on any puzzle solution misses what’s special about Humanity. In the days since playing, I’ve found myself most often thinking not about a specific mechanic, but what each level looks like once completed. By removing my ability to influence the stage, the completion screen presents the purest form of the game’s beautiful aesthetic: an unending river of people jumping, swimming, climbing. Orderly, but overwhelming. Moving, united, toward a singular goal. [Polygon Recommends]
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May 23, 2023It does make me wonder, though, if this existentialist aesthetic was chosen for any particular reason or just because story mode necessitates the presence of a story and if you make the story’s theme “stuff sure is confusing” nothing really needs to make sense. As I said earlier, humanity’s puzzle mechanics are extremely strong, with each stage requiring a satisfying blend of intuition and experience to successfully complete. Its stage creation and sharing functions are similarly friendly and effective. The people could just as easily be water flowing through a zen garden or fish swimming through the sea, though, so why aren’t they? The fact that they are people and I am a shiba inu must mean something, right? Right?!
User score distribution:
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Positive: 8 out of 12
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Mixed: 4 out of 12
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Negative: 0 out of 12
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Sep 8, 2023Best strategy game in years
+Greatly optimized
+Good amount of content
-Some missions that are less strategy and more skill based that feels off -
Aug 8, 2023Silly fun game .