Once Human
Last updated: 2025-04-28
- Fair, cosmetic monetization enhances player experience.
- Intuitive base building offers versatile creative options.
- Vast world encourages detailed exploration.
- Highly engaging and recommended overall experience.
- Frustrating server wipes/resets impact progression.
- Numerous bugs and optimization issues are present.
- Reviews
(sample size) - 2000
- Helpful reviews
- 72%
- Unhelpful reviews
- 25%
- Protest reviews
- 3%
- 71%Helpful reviews with positive sentiment
- 29%Helpful reviews with negative sentiment
- Positive points
- 4024
- Negative points
- 3936
- Gameplay points
- 1370
- Perf. points
- 391
- Rec. points
- 1260
- Misc points
- 451
| Point | Description | Importance |
|---|---|---|
| Fair, cosmetic-focused monetization | The game is praised for its fair free-to-play model, focusing on cosmetic monetization and avoiding pay-to-win mechanics. Players appreciate that spending money doesn't grant gameplay advantages, ensuring a balanced experience. This fosters a positive environment where skill and effort are rewarded. | 68% |
| Intuitive, versatile base building | The game's building system is intuitive and enjoyable, allowing players to construct and customize bases with ease. The ability to relocate entire bases is a unique and highly appreciated feature. This promotes creativity and strategic base placement. | 31% |
| Vast, detailed, explorable world | The game features a vast, detailed open world with diverse environments, encouraging exploration and offering a sense of freedom. Players enjoy discovering hidden resources, abandoned shelters, and unique creatures. The dynamic weather and day-night cycles add realism and unpredictability. | 30% |
| Dynamic, engaging combat system | The combat system is dynamic, fluid, and engaging, offering a variety of weapons, abilities, and strategies. Players appreciate the impactful feel of combat and the need to adapt to different enemy types. The game rewards experimentation and mastery of weapon mechanics. | 22% |
| Blends elements from various games | The game blends elements from various popular games and genres, creating a unique and enjoyable experience. The game combines RPG, open-world, and survival elements in a post-apocalyptic setting. The game is a mix of the Secret World, Enshrouded, and Pal World. | 15% |
| Responsive, active development team | The developers are responsive to player feedback and actively work to improve the game through frequent updates and bug fixes. This commitment to ongoing development and community engagement is highly valued. The developers listen well to the player base and respond relatively fast to requests. | 15% |
| Beginner-friendly, intuitive systems | The game is beginner-friendly, with intuitive resource gathering, crafting, and building systems. The game includes resource location markers, and a beginner server that gradually increases difficulty over 6-day intervals. The building system is easy to use, allowing players to move their house anywhere on the map with a 10-minute cooldown and save blueprints to rebuild after server wipes. | 13% |
| Cooperative adventures, casual-friendly | The game is designed for cooperative adventures with friends, similar to Sea of Thieves. The game does not pressure players to constantly log in for rewards or run specific builds. The game is genuinely free-to-play, with no mandatory purchases or DLC, and content is released for free. | 12% |
| Unique and bizarre creature designs | The game features unique and bizarre creature designs that contribute to the eerie and captivating world. The monster and boss designs are particularly praised for being creepy and imaginative. The enemy variety is impressive, with a decent range of different creatures to fight. | 8% |
| Customizable weapons and gear | Weapons can be customized with attachments found in hidden locations, adding depth to itemization. Weapons and armor can be modified with additional effects, adding customization options. There are lots of guns with nice variety, tons of mods for each type of gun, and surprisingly good gun-play. | 7% |
| Strong community, cooperative gameplay | The game fosters a strong sense of community and encourages cooperative play. Many players are willing to help others, making the game more enjoyable when playing with friends. The game is good for making friends. | 7% |
| Good optimization, language support | The game is well-optimized and runs smoothly on a variety of systems. The game has good graphics and optimization, running smoothly and looking appealing due to Unreal Engine 5, despite the presence of bugs. The game has Russian language support. | 6% |