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Once Human cover art

Once Human

Starry Studio · 2024-07-09

SteamPlayStation StoreEpic Games Store

ActionAdventureCasualMassively MultiplayerRacingRPGSimulationStrategyFree To Play

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO)

Releases: Sep 26, 2024 (iOS), Jun 10, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Apr 11, 2024 (Android), Aug 25, 2026 (PlayStation 5), Aug 25, 2026 (Xbox Series X|S)

Once Human is a Strange Worlds Survival Game set in a strange, post-apocalyptic future. Unite with friends to fight monstrous enemies, uncover secret plots, compete for resources, and build your own territory. Once, you were merely human. Now, you have the power to remake the world.

Once Human is an Action, Adventure, Casual, Massively Multiplayer game released in 2024, priced at free-to-play, with a review sentiment of Mostly Positive (78% of 180411 reviews).

32,196
playing now
79%
positive of 184k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
4,877
twitch viewers (latest)
85/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
66/100
IGDB user rating (84 ratings)
74/100
opencritic · fair · 54% recommend
2622h
time to beat (IGDB)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Free
steam price (US)

32,196 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 15:00 UTC (census sample)

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 on August 25, 2026.

Trailer

Once Human trailer thumbnail

Once Human - Official Trailer | Summer of Gaming 2022

≈1,000,000 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Thriving
  • · 32,196 players in-game right now — a Steam top-100 title.
  • · 23,490 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2,936/week).
  • · Review velocity down 36% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 1% of 10,710 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-27

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
41k41k20242026Week of 2024-07-01: 41,132 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 17,383 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 17,322 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 6,697 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 8,565 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 3,276 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 5,733 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2,298 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 9,032 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1,966 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 5,309 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1,027 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 3,329 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1,017 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 2,325 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 640 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 2,495 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 656 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 2,279 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 729 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 2,826 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 851 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 2,130 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 772 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 7,133 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 854 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 4,115 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 716 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 4,148 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 517 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 5,269 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 477 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 3,693 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 445 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 2,141 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 401 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 2,330 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 493 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 2,246 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 380 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1,628 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 274 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 3,242 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 441 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 3,295 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 343 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 3,255 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 288 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 2,403 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 330 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 576 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 104 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

32k13k2026-08-27 01:00 — 16,250 players2026-08-27 04:00 — 14,574 players2026-08-27 07:00 — 13,244 players2026-08-27 10:00 — 14,711 players2026-08-27 13:00 — 20,655 players2026-08-27 16:00 — 21,634 players2026-08-27 19:00 — 19,980 players2026-08-27 22:00 — 17,678 players2026-08-28 01:00 — 17,406 players2026-08-28 04:00 — 15,937 players2026-08-28 07:00 — 14,155 players2026-08-28 10:00 — 15,406 players2026-08-28 13:00 — 21,353 players2026-08-28 16:00 — 23,421 players2026-08-28 19:00 — 21,356 players2026-08-28 22:00 — 19,760 players2026-08-29 01:00 — 19,368 players2026-08-29 04:00 — 19,493 players2026-08-29 07:00 — 18,630 players2026-08-29 10:00 — 19,437 players2026-08-29 13:00 — 25,089 players2026-08-29 16:00 — 28,197 players2026-08-29 19:00 — 26,859 players2026-08-29 22:00 — 24,228 players2026-08-30 01:00 — 22,373 players2026-08-30 04:00 — 23,336 players2026-08-30 07:00 — 22,574 players2026-08-30 10:00 — 23,318 players2026-08-30 13:00 — 29,353 players2026-08-30 15:00 — 32,196 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Chart history

#92#992026-08-272026-08-302026-08-27 — #992026-08-28 — #972026-08-29 — #972026-08-30 — #92
Best Steam most-played rank per day (census top-100 snapshots).

Attention

2.2k1212026-05-28 — 169 pageviews2026-05-31 — 176 pageviews2026-06-03 — 158 pageviews2026-06-06 — 188 pageviews2026-06-09 — 151 pageviews2026-06-12 — 141 pageviews2026-06-15 — 146 pageviews2026-06-18 — 317 pageviews2026-06-21 — 179 pageviews2026-06-24 — 176 pageviews2026-06-27 — 153 pageviews2026-06-30 — 133 pageviews2026-07-03 — 126 pageviews2026-07-06 — 154 pageviews2026-07-09 — 363 pageviews2026-07-12 — 464 pageviews2026-07-15 — 323 pageviews2026-07-18 — 290 pageviews2026-07-21 — 252 pageviews2026-07-24 — 196 pageviews2026-07-27 — 237 pageviews2026-07-30 — 234 pageviews2026-08-02 — 193 pageviews2026-08-05 — 206 pageviews2026-08-08 — 222 pageviews2026-08-11 — 245 pageviews2026-08-14 — 296 pageviews2026-08-17 — 331 pageviews2026-08-20 — 359 pageviews2026-08-23 — 466 pageviews2026-08-25 — 2,244 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

60k1.5k2026-08-25 20:12 — 19,414 viewers2026-08-25 23:12 — 7,591 viewers2026-08-26 05:12 — 2,371 viewers2026-08-27 02:34 — 6,443 viewers2026-08-27 05:34 — 4,887 viewers2026-08-27 07:12 — 2,184 viewers2026-08-27 08:34 — 5,478 viewers2026-08-27 10:34 — 3,134 viewers2026-08-27 13:34 — 5,868 viewers2026-08-27 16:34 — 3,934 viewers2026-08-27 19:34 — 3,395 viewers2026-08-27 23:34 — 3,430 viewers2026-08-28 02:34 — 3,910 viewers2026-08-28 05:34 — 5,516 viewers2026-08-28 07:12 — 3,695 viewers2026-08-28 08:34 — 3,173 viewers2026-08-28 11:34 — 3,443 viewers2026-08-28 14:34 — 4,226 viewers2026-08-28 17:34 — 3,628 viewers2026-08-28 20:34 — 4,637 viewers2026-08-28 23:34 — 4,374 viewers2026-08-29 02:34 — 3,921 viewers2026-08-29 05:34 — 3,468 viewers2026-08-29 08:34 — 3,799 viewers2026-08-29 11:34 — 2,606 viewers2026-08-29 14:34 — 3,896 viewers2026-08-29 17:34 — 6,337 viewers2026-08-29 20:34 — 4,851 viewers2026-08-29 23:34 — 4,418 viewers2026-08-30 02:34 — 4,409 viewers2026-08-30 05:34 — 4,813 viewers2026-08-30 07:12 — 2,403 viewers2026-08-30 08:34 — 3,832 viewers2026-08-30 11:34 — 3,073 viewers2026-08-30 14:34 — 3,523 viewers2026-08-30 15:34 — 4,877 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

36
achievements tracked
0%
earned "0000"
0%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportMulti-playerMMOPvPOnline PvPCo-opOnline Co-opFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsIn-App PurchasesDualShock Controller Support2 DLC

9 supported languages: English, Simplified Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Portuguese - Brazil, Spanish - Latin America

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2100%36
PS5 (PlayStation)0—36

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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Similarity via IGDB.

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