When this occurs, the game uses a tactical role playing game approach for detailed resolution of these battles, giving the player a chance to take advantage of terrain and special abilities of their units. Players may also need to engage in combat with enemy forces. This allows the creation of large metropolises within each territory. Over time, they can expand that city, adding farms and other outlying resources as well as more dense urban areas closer to the city center. īuilding out cities follows a similar model from Amplitude's Endless Legend game, a continent in Humankind will have multiple territories on it, and the player will only be able to build one city in that territory. Because a player can select different civilizations as templates to build upon, there exist potentially one million different civilization patterns that a player can ultimately develop. A distinguishing feature of Humankind is that within each of the eras, the player selects one of ten civilization types based on historical societies this selection offers both bonuses and penalties to how the player can build out the civilization.

Players lead their civilization across six major eras of human civilization, starting from the nomadic age, directing how the civilization should expand, developing cities, controlling military and other types of units as they interact with other civilizations on the virtual planet, randomly generated at the start of a new game. Humankind is a 4X game comparable to the Civilization series. It was scheduled to release on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S in November 2022 but was delayed indefinitely due to “unique porting challenges”.

The game was released for Microsoft Windows and Stadia in August 2021, and for macOS in November 2021. Humankind is a turn-based strategy 4X video game by Amplitude Studios and published by Sega.

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