Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey
Fair · RPG · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 19.6h
- Value
- $0.51/hr
- Reviews
- 79% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 760 (4GB) or Radeon HD 7950 (3GB). Windows only.
Survive your evolution in Neogene Africa starting 10 million years ago. Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is a third-person open world survival game where you Explore, Expand, and Evolve to advance your clan to the next generation in the exciting new adventure from Panache Digital Games.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
June 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $7.99. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 53 in the 6 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 12 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 73 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Survivalist ($4.99, scores 59) beats it on value, while it beats Force of Nature ($7.99, scores 44).
20 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2024 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,162 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 471 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 44 percent of the 1,384 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 19.6 hours; clearing it takes 51, which is 2.6 times the campaign.
The drop-off
80% start to 2% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
124 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 09:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
📝 Slowly learning to use new tools, discovering the map, and trying to survive in the wild make this game unique. ➕ Pros The evolution system is incredibly satisfying. Slowly discovering new abilities makes your progress feel meaningful. Exploration is one of the best parts of the game. The world is beautiful, dangerous, and full of things to discover. Figuring things out yourself makes every discovery feel...
If you enjoy games that don't hold your hand and needing to figure things out on your own, then this is the game for you. There is a first-timer mode for brand new players that gives you a few basic objectives to push you in the right direction, but the great majority of the experience will see you taking initiative to explore the world, discover resources and creatures, and figure out what those resources are good...
I think the game is very cool, gameplay wise and visual wise.. However.. - I don't think the game is bad, visually nor gameplay. But rather what the game itself has to offer - i'd more of rate it neutral. It's a challenging game, with huge learning curves and a lot to explore and adapt to. You can craft simple tools, and form groups to move through obstacles better, and evolve and adapt until you reach the final...
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No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey scores 55/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/536270/ancestors-the-humankind-odysseyReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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