We came, we saw and we played a lot of games last month! August may have been the calm before the Q4 storm, but with a month that included the likes of Astral Chain, Control and Ion Fury, there was no shortage of new material to sink your thumbs into. So if you’re looking for something to play, got some cash to burn and need an opinion to help justify your purchases, here you go! Here’s a look back at the best of August…and the worst.

Survival adventure leaps back ten million years to the dawn of humankind in Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey. Assassin’s Creed creator Patrice Désilets and his team at Panache Digital Games have created a deliberately challenging, and different, sandbox experience that actually delivers on its promises. We also limited the monkey puns, promise.

I’d almost forgotten that Patrice Désilets, creator of Assassin’s creed, was working on a new game. His studio, Panache Digital games was founded in 2014 and to date, they’ve not really released anything. The game they’re working on, called Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is billed as a “third person open world survival game that will bring players to Explore, Expand and Evolve to advance their clan to the next generation in the harsh, ruthless, yet beautiful land of Africa starting 10 million years ago.”

The mind behind Assassin's Creed is back with a new game, and it'll be decidedly less violent than that stabby series.

E3 is a time of tons of announcements and reveals. While AAA titles get the most attention, some powerful indies also do well at the trade show.

Assassin’s Creed creator Patrice Desilets happens to have a new franchise in the works. And it sounds like a massively episodic title that goes by the name of Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey.