We Need More Humans Guides

This hub is the map of every We Need More Humans tutorial on the wiki. The game looks simple — fly a UFO, abduct people, buy an upgrade — but the round timer, the linear skill tree, and the way maps explode from twenty humans to tens of thousands all punish a messy first hour. Start with getting started if you just installed the Steam build, then park the controls page next to your keyboard or pad.

What these guides actually cover

We Need More Humans is a short single-player incremental by Seafront Games, released on 1 September 2026. There is no multiplayer. You do not invite friends. You do not split a screen. You fly, you abduct, you spend, you travel. The walkthrough walks that loop location by location. The skill tree page names the nodes you will actually click: Beam Capacity, Arm Beam Capacity, Round Time, Evolution, Instant Abduction, Crop Circle chance, and the rest of the green diamonds. When you only want a buy order, jump to the upgrade priority list instead of rereading the whole tree.

Locations are not flavour wallpaper. The first desert settlement shows a wooden Population sign in the low twenties. A snow map with cabins and igloos sits in the hundreds. A packed suburb can display 5,675 people under a cyan beam. Late neon cities push past 14,000 and then 27,000, with black holes, crop-circle pads, and glowing pyramids you have to fly over on purpose. The locations guide is the atlas; the how to complete page is the finish line for Normal mode.

How to use this hub

1. New save — getting started then early game build.
2. Confused by the UFO — controls.
3. Stuck on a dense map — walkthrough and locations.
4. Tree looks huge — skill tree plus upgrade priority.
5. Humans look weird — evolution tier list.
6. Ready to finish — how to complete and the late game build.
7. Shopping decision — review.
8. Mode menu after credits — game modes.
9. Circles, orbs, glow — crop circles.

Pain points these pages exist to fix

Steam reviews keep repeating the same snags. Tooltips are vague. Map objects are interactable but the game barely says so. The skill tree looks like a web of choices and then feeds you the next cheap node anyway. Endgame rounds feel slow once population stops climbing. Controller users have a harder time peeking at locked nodes. This hub does not pretend those issues vanished; it tells you how to play around them. Money is supposed to persist between rounds — if it does not, that is a bug, not a hidden prestige. Round time starts near six seconds on the first map and stretches with Round Time nodes and the little + on the timer.

Pair the tutorials with the updates hub so you know what the full release added over the May 2026 demo, and keep the upgrade checklist open if you like ticking boxes. Official store, socials, and the press kit live on the links hub.

Video policy on this wiki

Each guide embeds at most one real YouTube video, placed in the middle of the article. We do not invent IDs. GrayStillPlays, ImCade, Ctop, and Kro all recorded public playthroughs of this exact game; the walkthrough and skill tree pages use those recordings as visual proof, not as a substitute for written steps.

If you only read one page besides this hub, make it getting started. If you only read two, add upgrade priority. Everything else is there when the population sign stops shrinking.