Once Human Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-09-23
- Enjoyable and fun gameplay
- Impressive open world exploration
- Persistent bugs and janky performance
- Poor Optimization and Performance
- Free-to-play with cosmetic focus
- Base building is core
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows <8GB VRAM / <16GB RAMmixedWindows <8GB VRAM / 16-31GB RAMpositive
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Mostly Positive (6/10)
- Total reviews
- 189,044
- Positive
- 149,33479.0%
- Negative
- 39,71021.0%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 13,150,887
- Estimated revenue
- Not applicable
- Game price
- F2P
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 1,0342.40%
- Estimated copies lost
- 71,930
- Estimated revenue lost
- Not applicable
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 1,0402.4% Avg playtime 0.9h | 5771.3% Avg playtime 1h |
| > 2h playtime | 3,8068.8% Avg playtime 425.7h | 37,73687.4% Avg playtime 425.7h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 53.6 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 248.6 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 2,839.7 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 805.7 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
43,159 total
Organic purchasers43,159100.0%
Voted up: 89%
Key activations00.00%
Voted up: 0%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
43,159 total
First impression0-2h2,3025.33%
Voted up: 51%
Mid game2-10h7,67517.8%
Voted up: 88%
Late game10-20h4,48410.4%
Voted up: 93%
Endgame20h+28,69866.5%
Voted up: 91%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
80.0%
Global baseline 88.8%
45 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 189,044 total.