Sega Invites Players to 150-Turn Humankind OpenDev Session Starting December 15 By Wes Davis on December 10, 2020
From December 15 to December 28, players with Steam pre-purchases of the upcoming historical turn-based strategy game Humankind will be able to play 150 turns of the game in their “Lucy OpenDev” scenario. In it, players will see their societies grow from the Neolithic age to the Early Modern Era. With the announcement, Sega and Amplitude Studios also unveiled a trailer, directed by Romain Chassaing, which focuses on Lucy, a character seemingly based on the famous Australopithecus afarensis skeleton discovered in Ethiopia in 1974:
OpenDev serves as a series of scenarios that Sega has used not only to let players get a taste of the gameplay, but to compile their feedback for work on improving the game. This newest will begin at 7 AM PST on December 15 and run through 7 AM PST on December 28, and will include 40 cultures, with the potential to play throu