Ancestors The Humankind Odyssey Wikia (2025)

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Can you become human in Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey? ›

Ancestors begins 10 million years ago and progresses all the way to 2 million years ago. At that point, you play as an ape that looks more like us, but you never actually play as a human. "The final species you play as has not much hair, walks on two feet, and starts to resemble more of a human," Désilets says.

You complete an evolution and jump forward into time. As long as your Adult or Elder hominid was alive when you completed the evolution, your genetic mutation is now permanent. (Bright gold large circle neuron) If your baby/adult/elder with a genetic mutation dies before you complete an evolution, the mutation is lost.

Can I make fire? No. You can't make fire nor use it.

The game is 40 to 50 hours long, and it documents the clan's evolution across eight million years.

Build or Building is an action performed by pressing the appropriate button when available. This action is the third and final step in the construction process to transform a stockpile of items into another potentially more useful item. Only items that can be constructed into another item will show this action.

Your clan can consists of babies, adults, and elders. This group of hominids can consist of a maximum of six babies, six adults, and six elders.

Anything else you unlock will be lost and have to be re-upgraded in a future generation. So to progress quickly and take advantage of as many Spontaneous Mutations as possible, you'll be most efficient if you jump to the next generation soon after you've spent all your lock-in points so you can restart the process.

Through carefully managing when you discover meteorite sites, it is possible to induce the maximum amount of genetic mutations possible. Induce mutations in a full generation of six babies using a meteorite site. Change a generation and the babies with mutations will grow into adults with mutations.

Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is a game of discovery and teaching, your ultimate objective is to evolve as much as you possibly can, outside of some triggered cutscenes that give vague objectives, the main interest of the game lies in exploring possibilities and learning game mechanics by yourself.

Gathering up or creating weapons through altering allows you to have an arsenal ready for the times you are unexpectedly attacked. This allows you to have a ready supply of weapons for your entire clan. As you learn specific neurons, your ability to use weapons successfully will increase.

What can you grind in ancestors? ›

In this state the stick can be used for defense against predators, fishing, poking holes (catching insects for food), and lifting liftable rocks. To sharpen the stick and make it more effective in combat, you will need to locate a rock.

Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey 2 is an upcoming survival game which is a sequel to Ancestors: the Humankind Odyssey, the game takes you back 30,000 or so years ago during the time of the earliest Neanderthals where you had to protect your tribe and family up against America's hostile and deadly fauna at the time such ...

Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey

Is there any sort of end game with stuff to do or is this one of those games that just ends and then you start a new playthru? You can carry on playing and trying to get the neurons you missed, but nothing new to do once the game is finished, no.

Conquering Fear

After locating it, walk towards it until you are within the white circle. You will now be prompted to hold a button and conquer your fear. Doing so will expand your clan's home territory and rid you of any fear you may have, returning the color to your surroundings.

The goal of the game is to progress through evolution getting more and more evolved until the final evolution is reached. An in-game action that opens the Neuronal, Generation, and Evolution menu tabs for gaining neurons, genetic mutations, changing generations, reinforcing neurons, and taking evolutionary leaps.

Your goal in Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is to guide your lineage through eight million years of survival and (small-scale) evolution. You're not going to evolve your hominids into humans. You're just going to learn to be better hominids.

One of the first things you will want to do with your Hominid is enter intelligence and scan literally everything around you. Yes it can be a bit tedious but it is a great way to build neuronal experience and teach your clan new abilities.