New Civilization game currently at a 51% rating on Steam
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Humankind released in 2020. It had lots of hype during its pre-release phases that it was going to be a "Civ killer" by innovating on some things that Firaxis had let become stagnant over decades.
But everyone, including all the Civ streamers hungry for a new 4X IP after Civ6 was already 4 years old at that point, got bored and memoryholed it within a few months.
I'm not really sure why it bombed so badly as I never played it either. But it seemed to be a combination of the Civ switching mechanic being too generic and the same system creating irreparable balance issues.
Sounds like now would be the time for them to create a Humankind sale.
Humankind has been on sale for 15-20 bucks a few times the last Steam seasonal sales.
I considered it but ended up buying Old World instead (which I haven't tried).
Humankind is also woke as shit though. They had a tranny as the face of the dev team on their pre-launch dev streams.
The title cards for the game also literally have jogger doctors in lab coats and danger hair girlboss freedom fighters.
Hnn. That's unfortunate. Let me know how Old World goes when you find out!