Humankind interview: Crafting civilization’s narrative

A couple of weeks ago, I played a few hours of Humankind, Amplitude Studios’ 4X strategy game about building a civilization, one culture at a time.

Published by Sega, Humankind takes the general formula of Civilization and tweaks it. You still explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate, but you’re also adding cultures as your civilization advances through eras. You start as a tribe of wanderers, then set roots. Your first culture may be the Phoencians, and when you move to the Classical era, you may then add the Maya. As you gain traits associated with each culture, you end up crafting your own civilization.