
Once Human confidently hits its marks as a quality Action/Adventure title.
80
Verdict
77%
Steam
85
IGDB
Verdict score based on confidence-adjusted Steam reviews?
Mostly Positive Steam reviews (77% positive)
Active community with 9,051 concurrent players
Critically acclaimed (85/100 critic average)
Rich open world to explore
Contains microtransactions
Once Human is a free-to-play post-apocalyptic third-person open world multiplayer survival game. Developed and published by Starry Studio, a NetEase subsidiary, the game was released for Windows on July 9, 2024, and for iOS and Android on April 23, 2025. It is also set to release for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S in 2026.

Runs well on modern hardware.
Last updated 1d ago
The game offers you free stuff for a review and writes the review for you. Feels shady as ♥♥♥♥ honestly. Example of a generated review "This game is a dream come true. It has everything I look for in a game, and the ability to customize my experience makes it even more enjoyable. The free - to - play model just makes it perfect."
Don't get sucked into this sunk cost fallacy, bargain bin ripoff of any better game that comes out. Especially if you have dopamine regulation issues. The recent positive feedback is largely a result of the devs bribing people in game to automate positive reviews even while they break their own game every single minor update.
This was the only thing I played for months, so much, that I brought 23 friends over from my WoW guild into it. We ran the largest hive, player city, and market on Manibus-Y0001. Between all of us, we've spent over a thousand $ on their crap market and cosmetics, which we extremely regret. DON'T DO IT! and yeah I get it, there's some morons out there spending $5k+ on this crap game but we're poor as hell. Between all of us, we have every furniture and territory item/cosmetic. But, this game is getting worse and worse and instead of the devs listening to the 'right' people, that played this game like it was a second life, they'd rather listen to cute fairy people that have no idea what they're doing let alone hardly even play this. This wasn't a game to us, this was literally an escape from IRL. So they're literally pleasing the wrong people and with every new update, more people quit. What a surprise. I've been on the official discord quite a bit, and I've written them suggestions on their site.. I've literally been screaming, kicking, and crying for them to stop these moronic changes that they've been doing lately. Hell, they can't even open up the entire map, on top of the 20+ other issues I had. Custom servers are a joke, because we tried that approach too before finally throwing in the towel. If anyone out there can sniff this game in order to save it from the devs, I'd be the biggest supporter of that project. Because this really is a remarkably and beautiful game, however unfortunately, it's in the hands of greedy idiots that have no idea what they're doing. That's why it's literally dying. Less and less people log in and play it from when I started a few months ago with over 1131 hours.
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