THE ANCIENTS
The Ancients is a turn-based survival strategy game where you will manage a hunter-gatherer tribe through the ice age. Every decision you make will affect the tribe culturally and politically.
About Gorilla Softworks
We are a team that has both passion and experience, and we are intended to serve gamers with innovative and high-quality games. We don’t want to create copy-paste or ordinary games, we want to make remarkable games.
We intend to communicate with players as much as possible and listen to new ideas as the rocess of development. You may reach us via discord or e-mail, and we are eager to talk with you.
About The Ancients
There is no light except sunlight. Dangerous hunters everywhere, and we are wide open. We have to find food and water every day, and we just have each other and nature. We will make our way to survive by building our culture as well.
Game Features
SURVIVE
Against bloodthirsty wild animals, against vicious weather, against hunger, or against even each other… All you have to do is survive, with the help of being a community.
ADAPT TO TRIBAL LIFE
Get to know your tribe, check their health, know about their culture. Beware! You might not want them to be Cannibals. Don’t forget, the only thing that you actually have is each other.
BUILD CULTURE
Shape Humanities destiny from various categories from humanistic morals to build-up basis of your religion, from your tribe’s lifestyle to tribe’s structure everything is in your hands.
INVENT & DEVELOP
To survive against untameable nature you need to develop and craft new tools and weaponry.
USE YOUR SKILLS
Your tribe depends on you beware of your surroundings and your inventory makes wise decisions because in the wild everything will try to kill you.
MIGRATE
Migrate across the world try to run away from the ice age and find a decent place that you can live.
Roadmap
Steam Fest (February)
Kickstarter (March)
Closed Beta (June)
Early Access & Open Beta (August)
Late Beta (October)
Additions depends on player requests or stretch goals. (inside 2023)
Steam Fest (February)
Kickstarter (March)
Closed Beta (June)
Early access & open beta (August)
Late Beta (October)
Full Release (December but may change according to achieved kickstarter goals)