After Civ 7 stumbled, Humankind 2 looks like it's making smart choices to pick up the 4X torch

Amplitude showed PC Gamer a hands-off demo of Humankind 2, focusing on its reworked culture system and how climate and biomes shape cultures. Starting tribes get a "First Tale" tied to their territory, and players spend culture points on "Adaptations" like mudbricks, camel herding, and heat endurance, while climate shifts such as the Medieval Warm Period or Little Ice Age can alter biomes. The studio said there are 70 cultures total, and at "Crossroads" points players can diverge based on common history, shared land, or foreign contact, the latter two costing culture points.