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Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.
Sapiens is a early access, colony sim and city builder game
developed and published by Majic Jungle.
Released on July 26th 2022 is available in English on Windows and MacOS.
It has received 2,003 reviews of which 1,686 were positive and 317 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.1 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 24.50€ on Steam.
The Steam community has classified Sapiens into these genres:
System requirements
These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.
Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 - 64 Bit
- Processor: Multi core CPU
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: GTX 970 or better
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 2 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Requires up to date graphics drivers
MacOS
- OS: 10.15 (Catalina) or later
- Processor: Intel or Apple Silicon
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Discrete Graphics Card, or M1 or better
- Storage: 2 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Intel Integrated graphics not supported
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I'm writing this review after 686 hours of playing this early-access game. It is like many other "builder" games, as I call them, but also unique in other ways. It is an open world game, based on a globe, much like Earth. On this world, which you can create using several variables, are many tribes, spread out everywhere. You can navigate around your globe, picking just the right kind of terrain, with the right kind of environment to suit you. Then you look at all the tribes in that area and select one. You will now lead this tribe, and hopefully guide it to prosperity in the future. When you take over a tribe, it will be up to you to assign tasks to your sapiens, that will allow them to survive and prosper. They will basically start off like cavemen, and will need to be guided through all the technologies, to fully bloom. The terrain is built on hexagons, each with its own elevation and composition. As you progress into the technology, you will be able to raise or lower each tile by adding or removing some kind of material to or from that tile. This allows you to basically transform the world, as it was generated, into anything that can be imagined. So you can carve out an area on the side of a mountain, and build a home there, or build your own island in a river or lake, and live there. It's up to you. Building materials are everywhere. Just find them, and gather them up. At this time, Sapiens is only at version .5 something or other, so it is still being developed. The developer has one helper, and development of new content takes time. Bugs are squashed quickly, and new content tested on a separate branch. The Discord forum is very active, and questions get answered quickly by players or the developer. The main branch is very stable and bug free, in my opinion. There is a multiplayer option as well, but there are some issues with it that need to be worked out later. It shows a lot of promise though. It's a lot of fun for me. I especially enjoy the challenge of starting off new tribes in different types of terrain and different environments. You can, at any time, select another tribe on the same world, or create a new world entirely. It automatically saves everything you do, so you can return to anything you did in the past very quickly. It is super fast starting, creating, and loading. Overall, I give the game a big thumbs up. It is not finished, but has a good platform to grow on, with many new features in the wings. Of the dozens of "builder" games I own, right now, this is my favorite.
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A colony builder style game with an unique take on the tech tree mechanics. The way you discover new technology is by studying objects required to make it. This can make it quite difficult or easy depending on where you start. You also control a tribe of primitive sapiens, however don't get attached, their lifespans don't seem too long. The building style is free form which is quite nice to let your creativity run, but also a bit harder to make sure the sapiens will move as you want them to. There is a certain grind to the game, especially when trying to gather enough resources to build bigger structures, although i didnt mind this at all. Keeping my growing sapiens population's fed seems to be the biggest struggle i keep having, however this is more due to my horrible food management. I highly recommend this game to people who enjoy colony builders and people who like tribal cultures over the more modern ones.
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Pretty great "dawn of man" simulator, I'd give it 7/10. Progressing from basically existing in nature to the Bronze Age one step at a time is unique and fun. Starting with nothing and using the natural resources around you to craft and build until you get to an ancient city is also satisfying to watch. Biggest cons are the bigger your population, the more the micromanagement gets unfun and almost unmanageable. Food takes up the majority of your time and focus. Plus with how short their lives are and the many, many ways they can be killed or injured its hard to grow population or keep everyone productive. With being limited how many skills you can assign them at once coupled with their short lives, you're forced to specialize individuals and hope they don't die too soon before you have to train someone new from scratch. I wish they lived longer, increased the number of skills you can assign, and auto-assigned skills based on tasks that you put in the queue. I also wish when they died they left a tombstone or something, I think the game needs more cultural elements.
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A wonderful product if you seek for some game that can make you relax yet still explode your mind. Sapiens gives you a WHOLE F?#&ING PLANET that you can freely explore and colonize right and left, without loading screens or transitions. Think of a planet in Rimworld, and then fit it whole into one single playable space where you and the other colonies expand and live together. I really like the art-style, though the animations could be a little better. Overall graphics are great, the game has it's style, but some textures (like Mammoths and Hay structures) could certainly welcome a rework. Music is chill, and nothing really sounds dull or out of place. In this game you can interact with absolutely any object or geometry you find - you can freely pile up whole mountains or dig up canyons, build immense structures or eye-candy villages, and expand freely wherever and whenever you want. There are 7 biomes in this game, featuring absolutely mind blowing world generation, with absolutely realistic and beautiful scenery. The only actual downside of this game, which hurts it QUITE A LOT, is quality of life. This game requires too much micromanagement in things that shouldn't even require your attention - like gathering of farmed plants or Small Stone pixel-hunt nightmare. You won't really understand a lot of it until you try the game - but when you do, you will understand how much of a headache some things are. All in all - a great game, it really did amaze me with all the expanse of the world it lets you to play with. And it's feeling is quite nice, something akin to Factorio's "Factory must grow" vibe, but here you develop a civilization and not a factory. Great game, highly recommended.
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How I was going to write this review was the easy part. How I was going to rate this game was difficult. Why? This is perhaps the greatest game I have played since Empire Earth 2. I love the vastness of the map, it is truly HUGE and seemingly impossible to explore in a single lifetime. The craving to throw up self sufficient villages with trade networks all around the globe is intense and immense. You are not limited to pre-designed building constructs. Instead, you get to design your buildings wall-by-wall, roof-by-roof. This means you can have a wide variety of building designs in a single village rather than a series of similar buildings with no creativity like in many other games. Where does this game fail? Imagine I brought you to the world's largest all you can eat soup buffet but required you to eat your soup with a fork and provided you a miniature paper plate instead of a bowl to hold your soup and placed you at a table one mile away from the actual buffet. That is effectively what this game has done. Is the world massive beyond belief and imagination? Yes. Could you create massive villages and trade networks between them? In theory alone. You see, feeding your villagers is insanely important to prevent starvation and unfortunately, this task is manual. Which means you must manually command villagers to gather apples, peaches, and other fruits or manually order them to hunt specific animals each and every time warm weather comes around or they will die out in the cold weather. Additionally, without fires they can't cook meat and they will get very cold. So, you must manually order them to collect rocks and wood and hay to keep the camp fires and torches lit. Because of the time and effort required in accomplishing these manually tasks, any attempt to truly expand would almost immediately result in the complete extinction of your tribe. How then do I rate it? It has unheard of and unrivaled potential, the greatest features, and the most awesome casual gameplay focused on being what you want it to be. However, what good is all of that if you can't actual exercise any of it? This game is in desperate need of automated tasks to make it possible to actual develop additional villages and explore the massive globe. I hope someday automation is introduced so the game will be worth playing again. Until then, I almost dread opening it up because it means just doing the same menial tasks repetitiously until automation is introduced.
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Sapiens is currently priced at 24.50€ on Steam.
Sapiens is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 24.50€ on Steam.
Sapiens received 1,686 positive votes out of a total of 2,003 achieving a rating of 8.07.
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Sapiens was developed and published by Majic Jungle.
Sapiens is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Sapiens is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
Sapiens is not playable on Linux.
Sapiens offers both single-player and multi-player modes.
Sapiens includes Co-op mode where you can team up with friends.
There is a DLC available for Sapiens. Explore additional content available for Sapiens on Steam.
Sapiens is fully integrated with Steam Workshop. Visit Steam Workshop.
Sapiens does not support Steam Remote Play.
Sapiens is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Game modes
Multiplayer
Features
Online players
68
Developer
Majic Jungle
Publisher
Majic Jungle
Release
26 Jul 2022
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