Dawn of Man

Our analysis

A survival settlement-builder that takes a tribe from the Neolithic through to the Iron Age, hunting, gathering, farming, and defending against raids. It is genuinely fun and engrossing to grow a settlement through the ages, but the weak AI badly lets it down, with people dying of cold or starvation beside ample supplies, and the slow pace and lack of rival bases on the map hold it back. A middle-of-the-road verdict.