Pangenesis

Pangenesis is a game that sends you into a procedurally generated world that’s pretty much the digital version of an undiscovered Pangea, the Paleozoic supercontinent. In this world you will get to explore uncharted terrain to discover all kinds of weird creatures, both hostile and neutral, no dinosaurs though, along with plenty of other things.

A really interesting feature about Pangenesis is that you are able to create cross-breeds between the animals you find around the map. This allows you to experiment in all kinds of ways and it transforms everything into a little god sandbox game.

It goes without saying that you are free to dig all you want, build massive structures, equip items on your character and so on. Some of the animals are neutral and mind their own business, while others will charge at you and chase you until you either die or they get tired. Which are which is easy to tell thanks to the color of their health bars.

Killing them is going to be tough at first because you’re left into the world of Pangenesis to fend for yourself, the first means of defense being picking up rocks and throwing them at the attacker.

Each time you log into Pangenesis, you can create a new world for you to play in but you can very well connect to existing ones and explore them with other players. Seeing as how the world around you is procedurally generated, and is predominantly a sandbox game, Pangenesis will seem very familiar to Minecraft players but somehow it looks and feels better, that of course being a matter of personal taste.

Trees, hills, mountains, cliffs, animals, flowers, everything that makes up the landscape looks really good and it makes you keep exploring, waiting to see what you stumble into next. Although, you need a good dose of patience as the world evolves fairly slow in terms of diversity.

Apart from the animal cross-breeding feature, the game also provides a series of power ups which can be collected and used to heal yourself, teleport to your home and a large character inventory.

Even though Pangenesis is in its early stages of development, it’s still pretty fun to play and overall promising for the future.