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Sapiens
Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-28 · quoted reviews as of 2026-10-16.
“Potentially a really great game and a really good one atm. If you can appreciate the struggles of stone age humanity its great. Love the slow pace, just as it stone agely should be. Putting an elder to non busy work feels momentous after they age up. Couple of things i hope to…”
— a player, Steam review · 122 hrs played“I have followed Dave, the developer, for about 7 years now. It has been really enjoyable to watch a single person build a planet-sized world with complex AI, weather, and an advanced rendering system, all without an engine. Progress has obviously been slow, but it has always…”
— a player, Steam review · 51 hrs played“Good game but abandoned for the most part now. The Dev said he was moving on to different projects while he would "come back to this one at some point". Dont bother until you see more progress, its unfinished at this point.”
— a player, Steam review · 6 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Sapiens development on temporary pause
Hi everyone, For the past few months, I haven’t been working on Sapiens, and the time has come to talk about that. Sapiens development is now on hold temporarily. I will return some time next year. I
Progress Update - Conflict
Greetings!I have been making great progress over the past few weeks on conflict.The first step was to add a banish command. This is long requested, and was necessary for conflict, to be able to tidy u
0.6.1.2 - Bugfixes
New in 0.6.1.2: Pregnant, elderly and children sapiens now move away from sapiens belonging to hostile or unmet tribes Fixes bug where restricted building materials wouldn't be saved if you placed a b
0.6.1: Foundation blocks and Vulkan fix
It's been a slow few months of development, with a number of sicknesses slowing things down, and some big tasks requiring the update of a lot of assets. But we finally have an update! I had planned to
Sapiens 0.6 update out now!
This update adds seven different breeds of fish! It also brings new detailed textures and shaders, improves all animal models and behaviors, adds a range of colors for alpacas and woolskins, and conta
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Indie, Simulation, Strategy, Early Access |
| Player tags | Early Access · Colony Sim · City Builder · God Game · Base-Building · Building · Survival · Crafting · Management · Life Sim · Sandbox · Simulation (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · Co-op · Online Co-op · LAN Co-op · Cross-Platform Multiplayer · Steam Workshop · Steam Workshop |
| Languages | English |
| Official site | https://playsapiens.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 - 64 Bit Processor: Multi core CPU Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: GTX 970 or better Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 2 GB available space Additional Notes: Requires up to date graphics drivers