All 70 Cultures in the Humankind 2 Game: The Live List
Every culture confirmed for the Humankind 2 game, tracked with its era as reveals continue — the seventy-culture roster without padding or guesses.
Seventy cultures is the confirmed count for the Humankind 2 Game — announced in the October 2026 gameplay overview, and a substantial expansion over the first game's roster. What it is not, yet, is a published list: Amplitude has confirmed the number and shown selections, and the full roster will surface across the reveal cycle. This page is the live list — every named culture tracked with its era as it is confirmed, updated on the reveal cadence, and scrupulously free of the guesses that pad less careful lists.
How the Roster Works
For newcomers to the series: cultures in HUMANKIND are the building blocks of a civilization. Each era offers a set of cultures, each carrying signature traits, units and infrastructure. The first game made switching each era mandatory — your Neolithic tribe became Egyptians became Romans became and so on, layering bonuses like sediment. The sequel makes that switching optional, which transforms what a roster means: seventy cultures are no longer just stations on a forced march, but a menu you navigate deliberately.
That menu logic is why this page tracks eras alongside names. A culture's era determines when it can be adopted and what it competes against; under optional switching, era placement also determines how long you might reasonably keep it. The live list below grows reveal by reveal, and every entry carries the same standard: named by Amplitude, in a datable piece of communication, with its era if shown.
The Confirmed Count and What It Means
Seventy. The number arrived in the gameplay overview and instantly reframed expectations. The first game launched with roughly sixty across its eras before expansions swelled the count; the sequel opening at seventy signals both ambition and a response to how players actually used the roster — the community's most-loved runs were culture-identity experiments, and a deeper bench feeds exactly that play.
What seventy does not tell you is distribution. How the cultures spread across eras, whether fan favorites from the first game return, whether new-to-the-series civilizations headline the lineup — all unrevealed, all tracked here as the answers arrive. The distribution question matters more than usual under optional switching: a back-heavy roster rewards evolution, a front-heavy one rewards staying, and the metagame of civilization identity will be written by that shape.
What This Page Refuses to Do
The same honesty policy as the rest of this tracker, applied to the roster. No speculative cultures — a civilization appearing in a blurry screenshot is not a confirmation until named. No leak laundering — anonymous rosters circulating on forums get zero traction here regardless of their hit rate. And no padding — a list of thirty confirmed cultures honestly labeled is worth more than seventy names with forty asterisks. The count is confirmed; the names arrive at the studio's pace.
The related switching page explains what optional adoption changes about how you read this roster; the reveal tracker maps when the next naming beats are likely. Between reveals, this page sits quietly accurate — which is the whole point.
Reading the List as a Player
Even partial, the live list rewards attention. Early-named cultures are the studio's statement picks — the civilizations Amplitude judged would sell the sequel's premise, and therefore a preview of its tone. Watch for the era coverage in the first tranche: if the ancients dominate, the reveal cycle is running chronological; if picks scatter across eras, the studio is leading with variety. Both patterns tell you when to check back.
And for players planning their first run a year early — the honest advice is to plan the shape, not the specifics. A civilization that keeps one culture across the ages will want a roster's worth of synergy reading the moment it lands; a civilization that evolves wants era coverage. Both reading modes are served by the same live list, and both will have their answers long before 2027 arrives. Bookmark, watch, and let the roster come to you.