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  1. April 7, 2024 - Day 463 - NewPlay Review
    Total NewPlays: 490

    Game: HUMANKIND

    Platform: Steam
    Released: Aug 18, 2021
    Installed: Apr 7, 2024
    Unplayed: 0d
    Playtime: 23m

    Humble really decided to lean into the strategy games this month, with the third game in the bundle being HUMANKIND. It's a hex-tile based 4X strategy game.

    It does a lot of things in a strategy game that Victoria 3 doesn't, which gave me a considerably easier on-ramp.

    It purports to allow you to progress from a hunter-gatherer tribes, all the way to a space-faring society, but I didn't get that far in 23 minutes.

    It could just have been because I was tired, I just didn't quite connect with it, and I don't really have much more to say about it.

    I'll possibly poke it again, but it does feel a lot like Civilisation in some ways, and if I wanted to play a game that felt like Civilisation, I'd just play Civilisation.

    The version of the game included in the bundle is the definitive edition, so you immediately have all of the DLC expansions right there, but I'm not sure I'll ever get that far.

    HUMANKIND is:

    3: OK

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