Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey Announced

Private Division and Panache Digital Games today announced that Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey will launch in calendar 2019, digitally on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is the debut title from Panache Digital Games, the indie development studio co-founded in 2014 by Patrice Désilets, original creative director of Assassin’s Creed.

In Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey, players are challenged to survive and evolve in the harsh yet beautiful land of Africa spanning from 10 million to two million years ago. As hominids, players explore Neogene Africa, expand their territory, and evolve to advance their clan from one generation to the next in order to survive in this innovative take on the open world survival genre. The game and its mechanics rely on evolution, discovery, and survival as players traverse a variety of terrain and environments, encounter various predators, and learn new abilities to pass along to the next generation of their clan.