Humankind early access gameplay

Humankind is the new videogame from Amplitude Studios, the French video game developer that created Endless Legend and Endless Space. Distributed by Sega, this new strategy game comes to compete against the Civilization franchise. It has been made using the Unity game engine, and it will be released in 2021.

The game includes the classic hexagonal tile map with resources and different terrain properties. The cities also use the tiles set, with the performance of the buildings depending of the terrain where they are build and the surrounding tiles. Units can build outposts, than can be upgraded to cities. Like any other game of the genre, it has a technology tree and the resoruces are money, food, production and science. The altitude of the terrain is essential for combat and exploring.

The game runs smooth in my modest A8-8650 with a GTX 1050 in lowest graphic setting, despite being below the minimum requirements. This early access version only includes a scenario that last 30 turns and includes the mechanics of exploring and growing your empire from the start. Another two early access scenarios are announced, the second one including battles and the final one showing the siege mechanics.

Humankind is an interesting game I will definitely continue following its development.

The gameplay was transcoded using Handbrake, I hope you won´t have buffering problems anymore. Please let me know your opinion about the gameplay and the game.

More gameplays (probably) next week