Welcome To Sapiens
Hi! I'm Dave Frampton, the solo developer behind Sapiens.
Now that Sapiens is getting closer to release, I thought it was time to post here on Steam and let you all know where development is at, what to expect, and how you can get involved.
So far, in Sapiens you can:
- Create and customize the climate and geography of an Earth sized planet
- Choose and lead a small tribe
- Give them direction, and watch as they practice to learn the skills you assign
- Craft simple tools & weapons, build shelter, and place many other objects creating custom structures
- Hunt chickens, cook over a campfire, gather and store fruits, build beds and sleep through the night
- Watch as your sapiens age and progress through life, have children and grow old
- Chop down trees, remove plants, and transform the terrain
- Create and install extremely flexible game-changing mods using Steam Workshop
- Play in multiplayer either P2P or via a command line server application
But there is still a lot to do. The release date goal is late 2020, but it may still be pushed a little later than that.
My main goals for Sapiens before release include:
- Interactions between tribes. Trade and combat, as well as the ability to recruit or capture sapiens from other tribes.
- A much more advanced tech tree, allowing your sapiens to progress through the medieval age and beyond.
- A farming system, with the ability to plant fields of crops, as well as forests, ornamental plants and trees, and domesticated animals
- More content generally, with a lot more variety in building types, animals and plants.
Sapiens will not be going into early access, but instead will have a small closed alpha throughout 2020, before a full 1.0 release some time after that.
The best way to keep an eye on development is to subscribe to my YouTube Channel and watch the regular devlog videos.
- YouTube
- Forums
- Discord
I'm really excited about this game, and I hope you are too. Don't forget to add Sapiens to your wishlist!