Sapiens

Sapiens is a civilization-building game in which you guide a tribe from its beginnings through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs. Play alone or work with friends in multiplayer to build cities and manage resources together.

Choose a home

Choose from thousands of procedurally generated environments on a map larger than Earth. Each area has its own climate, resources and challenges, so your starting location affects how your civilization can grow. You can shape the world by moving and placing everything from large citadels to individual logs.

Develop your tribe

Find resources and send your sapiens to investigate them, leading to breakthroughs that unlock new things to build and craft. Begin with primitive materials and progress to more advanced tools and techniques. Other tribes can provide resources through their specializations in one of four trades: rock tools, bread, pottery and bronze.

You assign individual sapiens tasks such as research, planting crops, gathering materials, building, hunting and cooking. They learn skills that make them more valuable to the tribe. You also manage their moods and health and support their growing families.

Explore and trade

Trade across the globe and use tools such as sleds to send sapiens over long distances. Establish camps to gather distant resources, deploy teams to explore or send hunting parties to collect resources. Building your standing with other tribes brings further trading benefits.

Build together

In multiplayer, you can collaborate with friends on large projects such as trading hubs and hospitals, as well as other builds that would be impossible to complete alone. There is no PvP; multiplayer is based on cooperation and creating rather than destroying. Sapiens also supports mods through Steam Workshop.