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THE FINALS

Embark Studios · 2023-12-07

SteamPlayStation StoreMicrosoft Store

ActionFree To Play

Modes: Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Oct 26, 2023 (PlayStation 5), Dec 12, 2024 (PlayStation 4), Dec 07, 2023 (Xbox Series X|S), Mar 07, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

THE FINALS is the world’s first Dynamism Shooter, a free-to-play, fast-paced, physics-driven, first-person shooter set on the stage of the biggest Gameshow of the future! Fight for Fans and fortune in fully-destructible, virtual Arenas that guarantee no two rounds will ever play the same!

THE FINALS is an Action and Free To Play game released in 2023, priced at free-to-play, with a Mostly Positive review sentiment (78% of 274101 reviews).

15,178
playing now
78%
positive of 275k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
1,948
twitch viewers (latest)
80/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
74/100
IGDB user rating (290 ratings)
81/100
opencritic · strong · 85% recommend
95h
to beat · rushed 60h · completionist 1500h
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Free
steam price (US)

15,178 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 15:00 UTC (census sample)

The Finals, stylized as THE FINALS, is a free-to-play dynamism-focused first-person shooter developed and published by Embark Studios. The game focuses on team-based matches on maps with a completely destructible environment, where players are encouraged to use the dynamic environment to their advantage.

Trailer

THE FINALS trailer thumbnail

The Finals - Launch Trailer | PS5 Games

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

Health check

Thriving
  • · 15,178 players in-game right now — a Steam top-100 title.
  • · 24,856 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3,107/week).
  • · Review velocity down 24% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (98,575 reviews).
  • · Top 1% of 10,710 Action games in the census by review count.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$0.00

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

12-month high $0.00 · on sale 1 of 1 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
72k72k20232026Week of 2023-12-01: 72,285 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 26,290 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 25,196 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 8,162 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 9,896 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 3,001 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 9,284 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2,743 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 5,457 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1,870 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 4,679 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1,471 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 5,545 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2,193 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 3,897 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1,444 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 3,522 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1,047 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 3,895 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1,068 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 4,370 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1,222 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 13,569 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1,637 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 7,931 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1,116 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 3,568 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 812 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 2,827 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 717 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 4,088 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 958 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 3,100 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 691 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 2,775 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 766 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 3,336 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 977 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 2,687 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 720 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 3,971 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 920 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 3,525 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 974 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 2,874 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 822 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 3,831 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 643 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 2,939 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 807 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 2,906 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 723 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 2,316 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 659 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 2,292 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 615 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 2,249 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 712 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 2,072 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 570 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1,950 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 552 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 2,655 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 839 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 410 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 112 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

18k5.6k2026-08-06 16:00 — 12,673 players2026-08-07 07:00 — 7,743 players2026-08-07 22:00 — 15,467 players2026-08-08 13:00 — 10,903 players2026-08-09 04:00 — 14,035 players2026-08-09 19:00 — 18,312 players2026-08-10 10:00 — 7,058 players2026-08-11 01:00 — 14,270 players2026-08-11 16:00 — 12,349 players2026-08-12 07:00 — 7,040 players2026-08-12 22:00 — 13,136 players2026-08-13 13:00 — 9,113 players2026-08-14 04:00 — 11,454 players2026-08-14 19:00 — 14,539 players2026-08-15 10:00 — 7,728 players2026-08-16 01:00 — 12,713 players2026-08-16 16:00 — 14,329 players2026-08-17 07:00 — 6,589 players2026-08-17 22:00 — 13,453 players2026-08-18 13:00 — 8,642 players2026-08-19 04:00 — 10,757 players2026-08-19 19:00 — 14,553 players2026-08-20 10:00 — 5,567 players2026-08-21 01:00 — 14,032 players2026-08-21 16:00 — 13,438 players2026-08-22 07:00 — 9,112 players2026-08-22 22:00 — 16,489 players2026-08-23 13:00 — 11,862 players2026-08-24 04:00 — 11,669 players2026-08-24 19:00 — 16,497 players2026-08-25 10:00 — 7,043 players2026-08-26 01:00 — 14,525 players2026-08-26 16:00 — 13,109 players2026-08-27 08:00 — 6,308 players2026-08-27 23:00 — 14,108 players2026-08-28 14:00 — 11,912 players2026-08-29 05:00 — 12,609 players2026-08-29 20:00 — 18,442 players2026-08-30 11:00 — 10,854 players2026-08-30 15:00 — 15,178 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Chart history

#77#932026-08-062026-08-302026-08-06 — #772026-08-07 — #772026-08-08 — #772026-08-09 — #772026-08-10 — #772026-08-11 — #772026-08-12 — #772026-08-13 — #882026-08-14 — #862026-08-15 — #862026-08-16 — #912026-08-17 — #932026-08-18 — #862026-08-19 — #862026-08-20 — #862026-08-21 — #862026-08-22 — #852026-08-23 — #852026-08-24 — #842026-08-25 — #802026-08-26 — #782026-08-27 — #782026-08-28 — #792026-08-29 — #792026-08-30 — #80
Best Steam most-played rank per day (census top-100 snapshots).
PositiveNegative
77772026-08-072026-08-302026-08-07: 63 new positive2026-08-07: 15 new negative2026-08-08: 42 new positive2026-08-08: 16 new negative2026-08-09: 40 new positive2026-08-09: 20 new negative2026-08-10: 52 new positive2026-08-10: 16 new negative2026-08-11: 37 new positive2026-08-11: 19 new negative2026-08-13: 30 new positive2026-08-13: 13 new negative2026-08-14: 53 new positive2026-08-14: 28 new negative2026-08-15: 38 new positive2026-08-15: 21 new negative2026-08-16: 38 new positive2026-08-16: 21 new negative2026-08-17: 50 new positive2026-08-17: 26 new negative2026-08-18: 49 new positive2026-08-18: 21 new negative2026-08-19: 45 new positive2026-08-19: 25 new negative2026-08-20: 33 new positive2026-08-20: 18 new negative2026-08-21: 77 new positive2026-08-21: 14 new negative2026-08-22: 61 new positive2026-08-22: 22 new negative2026-08-23: 45 new positive2026-08-23: 18 new negative2026-08-24: 42 new positive2026-08-24: 13 new negative2026-08-25: 32 new positive2026-08-25: 26 new negative2026-08-26: 28 new positive2026-08-26: 22 new negative2026-08-27: 37 new positive2026-08-27: 25 new negative2026-08-28: 68 new positive2026-08-28: 23 new negative2026-08-29: 45 new positive2026-08-29: 23 new negative2026-08-30: 50 new positive2026-08-30: 30 new negative
New Steam reviews per day (census review snapshots). Positive above the line, negative below.

Attention

4541792026-05-28 — 263 pageviews2026-05-31 — 357 pageviews2026-06-03 — 257 pageviews2026-06-06 — 287 pageviews2026-06-09 — 321 pageviews2026-06-12 — 300 pageviews2026-06-15 — 272 pageviews2026-06-18 — 262 pageviews2026-06-21 — 229 pageviews2026-06-24 — 278 pageviews2026-06-27 — 231 pageviews2026-06-30 — 201 pageviews2026-07-03 — 179 pageviews2026-07-06 — 206 pageviews2026-07-09 — 406 pageviews2026-07-12 — 332 pageviews2026-07-15 — 454 pageviews2026-07-18 — 364 pageviews2026-07-21 — 379 pageviews2026-07-24 — 356 pageviews2026-07-27 — 423 pageviews2026-07-30 — 266 pageviews2026-08-02 — 239 pageviews2026-08-05 — 336 pageviews2026-08-08 — 261 pageviews2026-08-11 — 287 pageviews2026-08-14 — 245 pageviews2026-08-17 — 215 pageviews2026-08-20 — 269 pageviews2026-08-23 — 363 pageviews2026-08-25 — 353 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

12k6512026-08-20 09:12 — 1,807 viewers2026-08-20 12:12 — 7,957 viewers2026-08-20 15:12 — 4,993 viewers2026-08-20 18:12 — 4,878 viewers2026-08-24 23:12 — 4,954 viewers2026-08-26 19:15 — 1,610 viewers2026-08-26 21:34 — 1,410 viewers2026-08-27 01:34 — 1,313 viewers2026-08-27 04:34 — 934 viewers2026-08-27 07:33 — 1,186 viewers2026-08-27 10:34 — 1,076 viewers2026-08-27 13:34 — 876 viewers2026-08-27 16:34 — 1,605 viewers2026-08-27 19:34 — 1,376 viewers2026-08-27 23:34 — 1,392 viewers2026-08-28 02:34 — 3,341 viewers2026-08-28 05:34 — 949 viewers2026-08-28 08:34 — 651 viewers2026-08-28 11:34 — 814 viewers2026-08-28 14:34 — 1,066 viewers2026-08-28 17:34 — 1,467 viewers2026-08-28 20:34 — 1,215 viewers2026-08-28 23:34 — 1,263 viewers2026-08-29 02:34 — 1,186 viewers2026-08-29 05:34 — 963 viewers2026-08-29 08:34 — 860 viewers2026-08-29 11:34 — 1,385 viewers2026-08-29 14:34 — 1,754 viewers2026-08-29 17:34 — 2,613 viewers2026-08-29 20:34 — 2,798 viewers2026-08-29 23:34 — 1,157 viewers2026-08-30 02:34 — 1,173 viewers2026-08-30 05:34 — 957 viewers2026-08-30 08:34 — 662 viewers2026-08-30 11:34 — 779 viewers2026-08-30 14:34 — 1,733 viewers2026-08-30 15:34 — 1,948 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

50
achievements tracked
71.3%
earned "Med Student"
10.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPCo-opOnline Co-opCross-Platform MultiplayerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportIn-App PurchasesDualShock Controller Support42 DLC

10 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Polish

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)106,9210%50
PS5 (PlayStation)69,5311%51
Xbox Series, Windows (Xbox)34,3170%50
PS4 (PlayStation)7,6681%51

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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