Historical 4X games tend to focus on a group of people you might call a nation, an empire, or indeed, a civilization. Amplitude's Humankind series is no different, but its upcoming second entry is looking at these concepts from a slightly different angle. After all, the idea of a shared identity comes from the stories we tell ourselves and each other about who we are as much as anything. And that is the starting point for charting a course through the ages in Humankind 2.

While the original Humankind and other staples of the genre typically begin with choosing a specific historical culture like the Greeks or the Egyptians, Humankind 2 is a bit different. The first choice you will make is between one of what I counted to be 19 different founding myths based on real-world oral traditions, each of which corresponds to at least one historical culture. This is the tale of how your people came to be, in their own minds.

We caught a glimpse of the Wild Twins origin, which gives bonuses for settling near wild animals and is associated with the Etruscans, and the Flood Tamers, which is ideally suited for fertile river valleys and is associated with the Ancient Egyptians. The hands-off demo we saw was using Humankind 2's new Historical Mode, which is set on a non-randomized map of Earth and placed each of these starter cultures in the region they are from in real life. Of course, this won't be the only way to play, with randomized worlds also being an option.

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