Use the tutorial — This is really dang obvious but when firing up Humankind for the first time, be sure to take advantage of the initial tutorial.

4X games like the newly released Humankind can be intimidating, so it's best to start with the simplest important actions, like building a city.

In Humankind, a war can end with one empire as the vassal and one as the liege, but what does this relationship mean, and is it worth it?

Humankind takes its own spin on the formula established by Firaxis' Sid Meier's Civilization 4X series, with mixed results.