Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey

 Xbox One
User Score
5.4

Mixed or average reviews- based on 23 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 23
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 23
  3. Negative: 11 out of 23
Buy Now
Buy on

Review this game

  1. Your Score
    0 out of 10
    Rate this:
    • 10
    • 9
    • 8
    • 7
    • 6
    • 5
    • 4
    • 3
    • 2
    • 1
    • 0
    • 0
  1. Submit
  2. Check Spelling
view
per page
  1. Xbox_Alive
    Jan 24, 2020
    7
    Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is a First-Person Survival Simulation set at the dawn of Human Evolution. You start the game as a baby ape, scared and left alone from a predator's attack. You're in a dark jungle, in the rain, with hallucinatory faces of evil emerging from nowhere (which happens when your ape is terrified). Once you find a safe hiding spot, you're then moved to anotherAncestors: The Humankind Odyssey is a First-Person Survival Simulation set at the dawn of Human Evolution. You start the game as a baby ape, scared and left alone from a predator's attack. You're in a dark jungle, in the rain, with hallucinatory faces of evil emerging from nowhere (which happens when your ape is terrified). Once you find a safe hiding spot, you're then moved to another ape, an adult, from your tribe and are tasked with the job of finding the lost baby. Once this excitement is over, you begin your journey through time. Your job in Ancestors is for your clan to survive 3 million years! You do this by evolution. You will figure out how to make sticks, bash open coconuts, and everything else that brought us forward towards the technology we have today. The world is massive and beautifully rendered. This is the one true joy I had during my evolutionary path, the exploration. The further you manage to travel from the first destination you unlock new starting areas. As your apes learn, they gain neural energy, used to build the neurons in the skill tree. Once you hit certain points on the tree, you progress time forward. Losing an entire clan is the toughest part of this game, as it causes you to have to start all the way over (from any starting area you've unlocked) Having to re-learn everything can get frustrating at times, as the game gives you no direction whatsoever. This is a deep and intense Survival Simulator, the apes didn't get tutorials how to smash the right two rocks together to make a sharper rock, to beat on a stick to make a spear, so neither do you. Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is an INCREDIBLE game, and the world is intricate and well planned. Survival buffs have their work cut out with this one!… Expand

Awards & Rankings

82
#82 Most Discussed Xbox One Game of 2019
28
#28 Most Shared Xbox One Game of 2019

Critic Reviews

All reviews »
Metascore
72

Mixed or average reviews - based on 10 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 10
  3. Negative: 0 out of 10
  1. Official Xbox Magazine UK
    Jan 28, 2020
    70
    Ancestors contains all manner of intellectual joys – whenever you launch an evolution, for example, your efforts are rated against what science projected – and while it might not feel like much of a game at first, it certainly does when you fathom out how to approach it. As long as you aren’t afraid of games that make you work hard before yielding their rewards, you’ll find that Ancestors comes closer to letting you play god, while still entertaining you, than any game we’ve ever come across previously. How’s that for vaulting ambition? [Issue#186, p.72]
  2. Generación Xbox
    Jan 20, 2020
    82
    Ancestors: The Humankid Odyssey puts us in the shoes of the first primates who faced nature and were victorious. And, like them, the player will have to describe everything without any help in this original and different survival game.
    Read full review
  3. XboxAddict
    Dec 31, 2019
    68
    I do feel that if you're going to pick up Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey, prepare to be patient and be prepared to have zero help from the UI or prompts to help you along your journey. Ater playing this for an extended time, I feel like Hyena bait, not quite the queen of the jungle that I should. As I said above, when a video game isn't willing to at least teach you the basics before throwing you in the deep end of the jungle and waving you goodbye, that's a big red flag for me, a big red flag I can't ignore even with the graphics and audio being stellar.
    Read full review
See all critic reviews »