A first look at Humankind, Amplitude's new historical 4X beast

To the untrained eye (eyes that haven’t spent many an hour trained on an exquisitely detailed topographical map, checking on all corners of your immense empire), Humankind probably looks like any other 4X game where you shuffle units around and micromanage different settlements. But according to the hands-off demonstration shown at Gamescom this year, it ain’t.

4X stands for explore, expand, exploit and exterminate, the four key things you have to do to run a successful and burgeoning empire (and in the game?), and Humankind is Amplitude’s take on a big sprawling historical strategy game. Amplitude’s previous games, Endless Space and Endless Legend, were apparently practise for this, their magnum opus.

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