Sadly, these moments are often marred by clunky controls and a few too many falls when suitable branches to land on become scarce. Reach the top and you can leap from branch to branch in what are some of the game’s most exhilarating sequences. As you move through the jungle and approach either the trunk of a tree or a rock face, you’ll automatically begin to climb. When you’re not stationary, you’ll be able to try and make it as a fully-fledged king of the swingers. Annoyingly, you’ll need to stand completely still for this mechanic to work, but this arguably mirrors a wild animal becoming still and using its keen senses to build a clearer picture of the environment around it. Key objects to interact with will show up on the screen, as well as locations in the distance that offer new insight into the vast game world. To scope out the environment around you, you’ll be able to utilise and train your primate senses (sight, sound, smell, etc). Throughout each day you’ll need to maintain your water intake, make sure your ape eats enough, and manage the fear that arises once you leave the safety of your clan. The concept is certainly original and exciting, but this is recognisably a survival game at heart. The ultimate goal is to learn, thrive, and ascend further up the evolutionary ladder, all while navigating the dangerous world around you. In fact, a recurring theme of the gameplay is that, to make it in this cruel primeval world, you’ll have to learn from your mistakes, utilising trial and error to craft tools, find food, and support the rest of your ape clan. Taking place in prehistoric Africa, Ancestors throws the player-controlled ape straight into the jungle with next to no instruction. Set 10 million years before the dawn of humanity, Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is the story of ape to proto-human evolution, with particular emphasis on the dangers that forced our fuzzy forebears into learning the skills that ensured the human success story.
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