Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey

Ancestors is ambitious and clunky and not much fun - and it's often quietly thought-provoking too.

Available on

PC
PlayStation 4
Xbox One

Publisher & Developer

Private Division / Panache Digital Games

Release dates

PC: 27/08/2019
PlayStation 4: Dec 2019
Xbox One: Dec 2019

Key events

1st December 2019

Patrice Désilets insists Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey didn't review well because critics "didn't play the game"

27th August 2019

Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey review - broken bones and giant leaps

23rd May 2019

Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey PS4, Xbox One editions launch four months after PC

Patrice Désilets insists Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey didn't review well because critics "didn't play the game"

"So please don't take notes today as we talk, mainly because I don't know how to make a video game."

73

It sounds like 1666: Amsterdam will be the game Patrice Désilets makes next

"I'm back at it."

17

Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey review - broken bones and giant leaps

Origins of the specious?

56

Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey PS4, Xbox One editions launch four months after PC

Go ape.

8

FeatureSurviving in the wild: Assassin's Creed maker Patrice Désilets on Ancestors, his first game in nearly a decade

"One of the pleasures is to find how you stop bleeding."

26

Patrice Desilets' ape evolution game Ancestors will be out in 2019

Ooh ooh ooh.

2

Patrice Desilets shows pre-alpha Ancestors: A Humankind Odyssey footage

It's a snake eats big cat eats croc eats ape world.

4

Obsidian's new RPG is being published by Take-Two's new label Private Division

Fallout co-creators Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky are in charge.

11

What do you actually do in Patrice Desilets' ape evolution survival game Ancestors?

For Darwin.

8

Our first look at Patrice Desilets' Ancestors

"I'm not sure I was supposed to say that."

17

Assassin's Creed creator's next game is episodic and open world

Learn to create fire, discover penicillin, fly to the Moon.

14