| Atomix |
Alexis Patiño |
82 / 100 |
05-15-2023 |
Humanity delivers a vast puzzle game with 90 levels on the main story plus the infinite number of creations the community provides via the robust level maker it includes. Requirements to advance in the story might lead some genre newcomers to quit and even though it looks, hears, and feels beautiful, it lacks the extra-sensorial touch you would expect from this developer. |
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| Checkpoint Gaming |
Elliot Attard |
9 / 10 |
05-15-2023 |
Humanity greatly succeeds across audio, visuals, puzzle design and more. It’s an unusual game at heart but one that uses its abnormalities to its benefit. Practically unforgettable, this experience will test you as much as it inspires awe through delightful sensory stimulation. This beautifully complete and polished game may lose a touch of its precision in its later stages, though it still captivates through a wild ride of absurdist depictions and satisfying design. |
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| COGconnected |
Jaz Sagoo |
85 / 100 |
05-19-2023 |
Humanity is weird and wonderful. Like all great puzzlers, its premise is simple and the challenge steadily grows. THA Limited continues to innovate throughout the entirety of the game and manages to couple each triumph with jubilation. The odd difficulty spike may leave you perplexed, and a hint system rather than a complete solution would have been beneficial, however, this puzzler is one of the best in recent times and is a must for fans of the genre. |
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| Eurogamer |
Christian Donlan |
Recommended |
05-17-2023 |
Lead a river of humans through complex levels in this delightful, ingenious and generous puzzler. |
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| Expansive |
Sam Diglett |
8 / 10 |
05-28-2023 |
Humanity is one of the finest puzzlers I’ve had the pleasure of playing. I learned something from each stage and couldn’t wait to see what the game had for me next,. The developments and surprises keep coming along with the challenges and there’s plenty of long tail to come with user created stages and builders. Minor fiddly controls aside, this will be one I keep going back to and will surely stay among the best games I’ve played all year. |
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| Game Informer |
Wesley LeBlanc |
8.5 / 10 |
05-15-2023 |
Humanity strikes a delicate balance between challenging me at every turn and allowing me to feel like the god its narrative props me up to be. It’s an imaginative experience that provides a rush I imagine computer programmers feel when dozens of commands and lines of code finally work together to create a desired outcome. Its puzzles come wrapped in a beautiful package, from its minimalist visuals to its excellent clicky electronic beats. And best of all, these elements work together to emphasize a simple but effective message about what it means to be human and why life’s most intricate puzzles are easiest to solve when we work together. |
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| GamePitt |
Rob Pitt |
9.5 / 10 |
05-15-2023 |
As with every other game I’ve played from Enhance, I was in love with Humanity as soon as I started playing it. The puzzles are challenging yet very satisfying when you work out the solution on your own, watching as hundreds or thousands of tiny humans shuffle around the floating stage following your commands religiously, even if it means they’ll end up jumping off the edge into oblivion. The incredible soundtrack enhances the experience and VR adds another level of immersion to this truly unique and mesmerising puzzle game. |
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| GAMES.CH |
Sönke Siemens |
86 / 100 |
06-14-2023 |
The level of difficulty is sometimes accompanied by some unexpected fluctuations, but overall there are no real dead ends due to the solution videos that are available at all times. Combined with the splendid level editor and the optional VR mode that grants an even better overview of each level, Humanity is a true puzzle hit that no genre fan should miss. |
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| GameSpew |
Richard Seagrave |
9 / 10 |
05-15-2023 |
Humanity joins the stable of games published by Enhance that are weird and wonderful in all the right ways. Its abstract visual style, strange premise and trippy soundtrack all sit on top of its unique brain-teasing challenges, creating a game that quickly gets its hooks in you and doesn’t let go. For puzzle fans, or those who simply like their games out of the ordinary, this is a must-play. |
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| GameSpot |
Heidi Kemps |
8 / 10 |
05-24-2023 |
Humanity’s warm presentation and tightly designed levels deliver an engaging and accessible puzzle game. |
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| GamingBolt |
Shubhankar Parijat |
9 / 10 |
05-22-2023 |
Humanity delivers some excellent puzzle gameplay in a weird, unique setting, and constantly ups the complexity and challenge in new and creative ways that should be experienced by all fans of the genre. |
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| GamingTrend |
Jack Zustiak |
90 / 100 |
06-14-2023 |
Humanity is vast, clever, inventive, and eclectic. It constantly proposes new ideas that redefine the basic experience into a grand design of puzzle mechanics that are just as fun to experiment with as they are to think about. While its best-laid plans have some faults, it all works out in the end. You couldn’t ask for a better reflection of humanity than Humanity. |
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| God is a Geek |
Chris White |
8.5 / 10 |
05-15-2023 |
Humanity is an expertly crafted puzzler with lots of commands and problems to solve, giving you freedom to reach the goals of each stage. |
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| Hey Poor Player |
Andrew Thornton |
4 / 5 stars |
06-13-2023 |
Despite those issues though, Humanity is never less than an engaging puzzle game. Wrapping my brain around these levels was a joy, and the fact that players can make their own levels means I’ll be checking back in periodically to see what new ways players have found to twist my mind into pretzels. Humanity might be a second-tier game from Enhance, but that still puts it far ahead of most of the puzzle genre. |
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| IGN |
Gabriel Moss |
9 / 10 |
05-15-2023 |
Humanity is a beautiful, modern reimagining of Lemmings that blends many different genres into its clever puzzles, and its powerful level editor has dizzying potential. |
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| Metro GameCentral |
GameCentral |
9 / 10 |
05-16-2023 |
A fantastically clever puzzler that would be perfectly welcome if it was just a 3D Lemmings clone, but it soon evolves into something far more imaginative and unpredictable. |
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| Oyungezer Online |
Cevdet Emre Kızılcan |
9 / 10 |
06-05-2023 |
Everything you want not just from a puzzle game, but from video games in general, you’ll find in Humanity’s simple yet effective formula. Enjoyable gameplay, level designs that make you use your brains but don’t drive you crazy, and a sweet, sweet main character… WOOF WOOF! Well, I mean, definitely play it.. |
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| PlayStation Universe |
Neil Bolt |
9 / 10 |
05-19-2023 |
What begins as a charming, simple puzzler grows and evolves into something special. Humanity is one of the best puzzle games I’ve played in quite some time. |
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| Polygon |
Jacob Geller |
Recommended |
05-21-2023 |
Ultimately, focusing too closely on any puzzle solution misses what’s special about Humanity. In the days since playing, I’ve found myself most often thinking not about a specific mechanic, but what each level looks like once completed. By removing my ability to influence the stage, the completion screen presents the purest form of the game’s beautiful aesthetic: an unending river of people jumping, swimming, climbing. Orderly, but overwhelming. Moving, united, toward a singular goal. |
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| Push Square |
Stephen Tailby |
8 / 10 |
05-15-2023 |
Humanity is a wonderfully different puzzle game brimming with ideas. It takes a few simple building blocks and combines them to create some surprisingly complex levels and challenges, keeping you on your toes as it constantly throws in new concepts. While the story mode has some inconsistencies in terms of difficulty, it still manages to keep you hooked all the way. And when you’re done, there’s an intuitive level editor and browser, in theory giving you all the puzzles you could want. If you’re after something a little different, give this a shot |
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| Rice Digital |
Pete Davison |
Recommended |
05-18-2023 |
Humanity is an absolutely brilliant game that any fans of Mizuguchi or Nakamura’s work should jump right on. It’s the perfect antidote to the bombast of triple-A, a wonderfully contemplative experience if you allow it to be — and simply a well-designed puzzle game with some really interesting mechanics to engage with. |
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| Rock, Paper, Shotgun |
Kim Armstrong |
Recommended |
05-23-2023 |
You, a shiny shiba inu, must lead the people into the light. Humanity’s flowy puzzles require a satisfying blend of intuition and experience to complete, but story mode’s unrelenting ambiguity makes my brain itch. |
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| Screen Rant |
Jacob Zeranko |
4.5 / 5 stars |
05-15-2023 |
Humanity builds on the theme of collective humanity in a number of other ways. The first is with its cross-platform Stage Creator that, like the building system in Meet Your Maker or Halo’s forge mode, is a versatile and polished system that allows players to create and share custom stages to challenge other players. The second way is through the game’s score, which uses human voices as a choir and as other instruments through clever sound design and modulation. In the end, Humanity is a phenomenal debut title that finds new and creative ways to shake up the puzzle platformer genre, and with it being free on day 1 for PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium subscribers, there’s no reason to skip over this must-play title. |
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| SECTOR.sk |
Oto Schultz |
9 / 10 |
05-16-2023 |
Humanity is such a well-suited metaphor and a precise representation of an intriguing title, condensed into one single word. This game bends around established rules and genres, introduces creative mechanics and provides you with enormous amounts of food for thought. My best attempt at brief description would be something like this: Everything, everywhere, all at once and for everyone! Because this title has a little something for everyone, so you better get to playing’ |
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| Shacknews |
Nicholas Tan |
9 / 10 |
05-15-2023 |
I haven’t felt as challenged or as impressed by a puzzle game like Humanity since Portal 2 and The Talos Principle. Sony likely saw something special about it too (and this time at least, I agree), as it is one of the few games that will be available with a PS Extra or Premium subscription on day one. While Humanity does become less of a puzzler near the endgame, that’s a minor quibble in light of the risks it takes, its inventive range of content, its thought-provoking story, and its curiously peculiar presentation. (The dog is cute too.) |
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| The Escapist |
KC Nwosu |
Recommended |
05-16-2023 |
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| The Games Machine |
Claudio Magistrelli |
8.7 / 10 |
06-12-2023 |
Elegant and minimalist, Humanity is an excellent puzzle game. Its philosophy, effectively represented by the constant stream of humans to be led to safety, is supported by excellent technical realization and over-the-top design. Despite levels lasting dozens of minutes, the trials it subjects the player to are al-ways challenging and entertaining thanks to a number of solutions designed to enhance the player’s ex-perience, such as the ability to repeat the scenario with given commands, speed up the passage of time, and actual video walkthroughs. |
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| TheSixthAxis |
Tuffcub |
8 / 10 |
05-15-2023 |
A pleasantly stress free puzzle game with a weird story and boss battles to boot. The level editor ensures there will always be something new to tax your brain, and it’s a good addition to the PSVR 2 library as well. |
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| VGC |
Tom Regan |
4 / 5 stars |
05-26-2023 |
Humanity’s invention and weirdness makes it the perfect tonic to an increasingly risk-averse industry, offering a welcome return to the kind of eccentric oddities that endeared millions to PlayStation in the first place. |
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| VGChartz |
Lee Mehr |
9 / 10 |
06-26-2023 |
Humanity’s confident blend of abstract visuals and ever-evolving puzzle design make it a fantastic example of the medium. |
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| Video Chums |
A.J. Maciejewski |
8 / 10 |
05-25-2023 |
HUMANITY is one great puzzler that’ll keep you entertained throughout its huge campaign of challenging and always-evolving scenarios. |
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| WayTooManyGames |
Leonardo Faria |
8.5 / 10 |
05-15-2023 |
Humanity is the kind of experimental breath of fresh air we rarely see being released nowadays. Evoking the spirit of the more bizarre and experimental games from the Dreamcast era, it features a bonkers premise and a pointless plot, but also excellent controls, a really intuitive gameplay loop, and of course, as to be expected from a game published by Enhance, trippy visuals and great music. |
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