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Humankind, a 4X game that seeks to dethrone Sid Meier's Civilization, finally cometh. Starting from the nomadic age, players will be able to experience the progression of history through six major eras of human civilization. However, unlike Civilization and most other 4X games, Humankind allows you to shape the malleable culture of your civilization. Apart from micro-managing units and the administrative affairs of your cities, you will also have to plan out the grand direction of your civilization.
Humankind comes from the same creators of Endless Legend, Endless Space, and the spin-off dungeon crawling rogue-like Dungeon of the Endless. Amplitude Studios has a long and storied career in strategy games, and Humankind is the culmination of years of work. It's a worthy challenger to Civilization‘s dominance in the genre, and might even be able to finally beat it – something that its predecessors never did. So, when is Humankind coming out, exactly?
Humankind Release Date: August 17, 2021
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While Humankind has been made available at a limited scale through multiple OpenDev phases, it will be released in full for the first time on August 17, 2021. As can be seen in the Official The Scale of Humankind Trailer, the game is very encompassing. Humankind features 60 historical cultures, which, when mixed and matched together, offers a dazzling 1 million plus different civilizations players can craft. The game offers 129 unit types – in comparison to Civilization‘s ~120 units including expansions, 10 biomes, 45 animal species, 93 technologies, and offers avatar customizations for your civilization's leaders.
Most importantly, Humankind offers unique narrative storylines that naturally emerge from your civilization's activities. These narrative storylines are carried well by beautifully rendered avatars, fully voice acted with thousands of voice lines.
Will all of these features be enough to beat Civilization? Only time will tell who will survive the test of time.
