Here’s a recorded six-hour livestream from the recent closed beta if you want to get a better idea of what the moment-to-moment gameplay looks like in Humankind. Almost one year later, and that game still sees concurrent players over 15,000 every day.
And if history is any indication, it won’t hurt sales either.Īnother beloved PC strategy game, Crusader Kings III, also launched on Game Pass – and yet it hit nearly 100,000 concurrent players for its all-time peak on Steam. The developer and Sega are looking to continue that hot streak, and launching on Game Pass will only increase its reach. Their previous 4X games, Endless Legend and Endless Space 2, both enjoy ‘Very Positive’ ratings on Steam with more than 10,000 reviews each. We’ll see if the differences between the cultures (and their bonuses) translate.Īmplitude Studios are no stranger to the 4X genre, and their games are well received in the community. The replayability potential here is huge. As you advance through six eras, there are 60 cultures to choose from as you begin your conquest as a tiny neolithic tribe.
One big change is you won’t be stuck playing as a single faction/culture.Īs you enter each new era, you can choose to adopt a new culture with each offering various bonuses. One of the most popular upcoming game Humankind released a new trailer.
Hopefully, removing Denuvo from Humankind won’t affect its sales much and fix its performance issues as intended.Yep, it does look a lot like the popular Civilization series – but the folks at Amplitude are adding their own twists. Denuvo should never impact player performance, and we don’t want to sacrifice ’s quality for you guys.”ĭenuvo also received some bad raps recently when it was found out that it caused Resident Evil Village to slow down. “That being said, our priority is always the best possible experience for the players who buy our games and support us.
If Denuvo can hold off a cracked version, even just for a few days, that can already really help us to protect our launch,” says Romain, CCO and Studio Head at Amplitude.
We’ve been one of the most wishlisted games on Steam this year, so we know we’re going to be targeted by pirates, more so than any of our previous games.
“We’ve been working on for more than 4 years now and personally it’s been my dream project for 25 years. At least the version of Humankind that will be bought legally from stores will be playable, no problem. They’d rather the game get pirated and distributed for free. Either that or risk Humankind getting pirated weeks ahead of its launch.Īmplitude Studios chose the latter option. The first Humankind gets bad reviews at launch because of the game’s instability due to Denuvo. If you took part in the open development or closed beta, then you need to delete your old profile and let the game create a new one. This is caused by the old profiles that were created specifically for the closed beta stage. They had to choose between two equally undesirable outcomes. Many Humankind players who took part in the closed beta, started to experience game crashes at launch. Despite all of that I don't have anything in my rewards, nor do I have it on my steam account.
It turns out that the game’s Denuvo DRM system, which makes it hard for pirates to illegally make copies and cracks of the game, makes it so that Humankind becomes unplayable at some moments. Hey I've pre-purchased the game on Steam, was in the VictorDev Beta. Humankind‘s closed beta testing put developers Amplitude Studios in a bind. Humankind removed Denuvo DRM from the game, three weeks ahead of the game’s launch on August 17, 2021.