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The Humans is an action puzzle game that most often gets compared to Lemmings. It came out on several systems at the time, including the Genesis, Game Boy, Jaguar (as Evolution: Dino Dudes, where the screenshot is from), and even an eventual Nintendo DS remake...and probably more I'm not thinking about. You control a tribe of cavemen, and you must use them to traverse various stages using their different abilities... probably sounds familiar.

However, though it requires similar sensibilities, The Humans is different in many ways from Lemmings. For one, you directly control your humans (or dino dudes as may be the case), and you don't have a limit on uses. Instead, you move each as you will, switching on the fly, and you select different actions and abilities along the bottom of the screen. You pick up items such as spears, which you can use as weapons or to pole vault across chasms, and in each stage you must get one human to the goal.

You begin with a tribe of 12, and when one dies, he is automatically replaced by another from the reserves. If you fall to low in number to complete a stage, it's game over. Successful completion of objectives, though, can net you more members to the tribe. There are some 80 stages to try, and you get a password after each.

As an alternative puzzle game, the Humans works pretty well. Its level structure makes it work great as a portable game, but the console versions also have a nice Amiga-style aesthetic. I don't care for the new sprites in the DS version, but it still plays okay.

Have you played with the Humans?