Humanica

Humanica is a settlement-building game that begins in 10,000 B.C. You guide a community through human development from the Paleolithic to the Iron Age, growing its settlement and advancing through a technology tree that changes your play style and requires you to adapt.

Daily life

You build, gather resources, craft items, farm, raise animals and smelt bronze and iron. Resources are scarce at first, so survival is the main goal in the early years: your settlers need food and clothing. The game is divided into days, with each day acting as a turn in which settlers can complete a limited amount of work. You manage their tasks to use their time efficiently.

Explore the world

You explore a turn-based world map made of hexagonal tiles, searching for useful resources, including new seeds to grow and animals to breed. The world is procedurally generated, and at the start of a game you can choose the landscape.

Build and defend

Construction uses a grid of irregular, randomly shaped quadrilaterals. You can edit the landscape, which is made up of large square sections, by digging out mountains or building them up. Wild animals and nomads threaten the settlement, so you arm your settlers and build walls and towers to defend it.

Laws and technology

A system of laws and annual plans lets you customize your play style. Available annual plans can drop randomly, adding light roguelike elements. Tool quality affects how much certain jobs are accelerated, so you can craft bronze and iron axes and pickaxes to improve your settlers' work.