Current Events > How is that Humankind game?

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Just noticed it was on Gamepass but it just looks like a massive Civ ripoff

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I've only played it a little bit, but I think it's doing a lot to differentiate itself from Civ. It's got some neat ideas about progression, and it doesn't require you to aim for a set path of victory type from early on the way Civ tends to.

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Unrelated but for some reason I pictured the Xbox 360 game Too Human when you said Humankind.

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I played a couple games. Still trying to figure it out. It's not "hard" but you really have to know how to work the system to get the most out of it.

In Civ, you are role-playing as a civilization you choose, and the game sort-of unfolds for you as history progresses.

In Humankind, you CANNOT advance to later eras WITHOUT growing enough population, earning enough money, researching enough technologies, earning enough "influence" points (i.e. the points needed to enact certain political policies), owning enough territorial space, destroying enough enemy units, and building enough city districts. And you have to learn how all this stuff meshes together.

But I would say the look and feel of the games is somewhat similar.

Waiting to get it when I have more free time
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