You can then use this energy to unlock neurons in your brain which gives you new abilities and improves your skills. You’ll need to explore your surroundings to earn Neuronal Energy, which is this game’s version of XP. To begin with, your little clan is fairly useless and they don’t have many skills. Rather than feeling a sense of achievement from this I just felt myself getting more and more frustrated and wishing that the game could be a bit more helpful so that I could have got on with exploring and enjoying the game far sooner.

It means that you’ll have to experiment and try to figure it all out yourself. The first time I played I ended up leading quite a few of my adult monkeys to their untimely deaths before I eventually managed to find the poor youngster.Īncestors seems to take great pride in withholding information from you. It’s quite difficult to read when a warthog or snake is busy trying to chow down on you! This all leads to a really slow and frustrating opening few hours where you’ll be stumbling around not really knowing what to do. Whenever a tutorial box did flash up on screen it normally seemed to be at the worst possible time. The game tells you an objective but doesn’t really show or tell you how to do something.

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