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[The_J]

So the Humankind Twitter account is very busy re-tweeting the current reviews.
We have our own reviews:

• https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/a-review-of-humankind.672435/
  
• https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/review-of-humankind-from-a-civiv-player.672431/
• https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/my-humankind-diary-humankind-beta-play-and-review.672356/
• https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/humandkind-review-by-infixo.672439/

with more to come, but let's also collect all the other news.
A list:

• PC Gamer: https://www.pcgamer.com/humankind-review/
• PCGamesN: https://www.pcgamesn.com/humankind/review
• IGN: https://www.ign.com/articles/humankind-review-4x-strategy-game
• RockPaperShotgun: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/humankind-pc-review
• GodIsAGeek: https://www.godisageek.com/reviews/humankind-review/

Current metacritic ratings: https://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/humankind

 

[Krajzen]

Current Metacritic rating among 'proffesional critics' is 80/100. So not brilliant but very good basically, but I am somewhat salty than it is less than 88/100 civ6 got on release, which it absolutely didn't deserve with how nightmarishly awful its AI was on release, I was basically playing alone with no opponents and no difficulty. I have never understood how games like this are never trashed by 'pro' reviewers for AI, you need player reviews to know about that - and player rating for civ6 has always oscillated between 6.5 and 7.0 on metacritic because of that. So let's wait for user reviews, whom I trust WAY more (barring rare review bombing) than pro reviews who have failed for so many games.

So I have been reading those lowest reviews, 70 and 75 ones. They praise visuals, culture swapping, warfare and AI (what and insane sight in 4X genre) and neolithic age. Recurring criticism from many reviewers is mainly
- religion being shallow and passive
- diplomacy being restricted and poor in options
- unclear game mechanics, poor tutorials
- some cultures being much better than others in a given era.

Among the weirder complaints is 'ehh this game's factions are much less distinctive and asymmetric in gameplay than in EL/ES games'. Like dude, there are 60 factions here, not 8, they can't be that diverse just to avoid overhelming the player.

 

[KayAU]

I'll take forum posts from players over professional reviews any day, I learned that after TES4: Oblivion. Thumbs up to Amplitude for getting CivFanatics members to write informative reviews before launch.