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THE FINALS

Embark Studios · 2023-12-07

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ActionFree To Play

Modes: Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: First person

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).

12,740
playing now
78%
positive of 278k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
1,536
twitch viewers (latest)
9.1
viewers/channel (concentration)
80/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
74/100
IGDB user rating (290 ratings)
4.14★
PlayStation Store rating (58,562 ratings)
81/100
opencritic · strong · 85% recommend · from 23 critics
95h
to beat · rushed 60h · completionist 1500h
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Free
steam price (US)

12,740 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 22:00 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
  • · 12,740 players in-game right now — a Steam top-100 title.
  • · 22,151 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2,769/week).
  • · Review velocity down 32% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (98,575 reviews).
  • · Top 1% of 27,667 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-10-06

Tier history: healthy→thriving (Oct 6), thriving→healthy (Sep 30), healthy→thriving (Sep 15), thriving→healthy (Sep 13)

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$0.00

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

12-month high $0.00 · on sale 8 of 8 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: 1,839 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 680 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 1,626 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 525 negativeWeek of 2026-10-01: 633 positiveWeek of 2026-10-01: 175 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

18k4.7k2026-09-15 01:00 — 11,810 players2026-09-15 16:00 — 10,433 players2026-09-16 07:00 — 5,429 players2026-09-16 22:00 — 11,015 players2026-09-17 13:00 — 7,556 players2026-09-18 04:00 — 9,597 players2026-09-18 19:00 — 14,088 players2026-09-19 10:00 — 8,015 players2026-09-20 01:00 — 11,748 players2026-09-20 16:00 — 13,801 players2026-09-21 07:00 — 5,463 players2026-09-21 22:00 — 11,501 players2026-09-22 13:00 — 7,373 players2026-09-23 04:00 — 9,293 players2026-09-23 19:00 — 13,407 players2026-09-24 10:00 — 4,891 players2026-09-25 01:00 — 11,300 players2026-09-25 16:00 — 10,926 players2026-09-26 07:00 — 7,484 players2026-09-26 22:00 — 14,371 players2026-09-27 13:00 — 10,854 players2026-09-28 04:00 — 9,244 players2026-09-28 19:00 — 13,758 players2026-09-29 10:00 — 4,833 players2026-09-30 01:00 — 11,163 players2026-10-06 15:00 — 9,836 players2026-10-07 06:00 — 6,455 players2026-10-07 21:00 — 13,350 players2026-10-08 12:00 — 6,967 players2026-10-09 03:00 — 11,745 players2026-10-09 18:00 — 13,954 players2026-10-10 09:00 — 6,993 players2026-10-11 00:00 — 12,695 players2026-10-11 15:00 — 14,182 players2026-10-12 06:00 — 7,582 players2026-10-12 21:00 — 15,436 players2026-10-13 12:00 — 6,683 players2026-10-14 03:00 — 11,538 players2026-10-14 18:00 — 13,798 players2026-10-14 22:00 — 12,740 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
120k9.8kDec 2023Aug 2026Dec 2023 — avg 120,211 · peak 242,399Jan 2024 — avg 60,179 · peak 116,913Feb 2024 — avg 24,848 · peak 49,060Mar 2024 — avg 21,712 · peak 48,226Apr 2024 — avg 15,390 · peak 27,273May 2024 — avg 12,379 · peak 20,910Jun 2024 — avg 14,841 · peak 31,623Jul 2024 — avg 11,819 · peak 16,720Aug 2024 — avg 11,934 · peak 16,929Sep 2024 — avg 12,849 · peak 29,264Oct 2024 — avg 15,495 · peak 24,975Nov 2024 — avg 14,260 · peak 21,731Dec 2024 — avg 13,487 · peak 23,431Jan 2025 — avg 11,982 · peak 18,121Feb 2025 — avg 11,761 · peak 19,499Mar 2025 — avg 12,602 · peak 27,295Apr 2025 — avg 12,483 · peak 20,271May 2025 — avg 12,501 · peak 19,849Jun 2025 — avg 14,476 · peak 28,835Jul 2025 — avg 12,399 · peak 19,426Aug 2025 — avg 14,626 · peak 25,801Sep 2025 — avg 16,236 · peak 32,758Oct 2025 — avg 13,403 · peak 24,326Nov 2025 — avg 9,833 · peak 16,742Dec 2025 — avg 11,648 · peak 21,400Jan 2026 — avg 11,969 · peak 21,315Feb 2026 — avg 11,872 · peak 21,068Mar 2026 — avg 10,830 · peak 24,326Apr 2026 — avg 12,696 · peak 21,785May 2026 — avg 11,866 · peak 20,396Jun 2026 — avg 10,636 · peak 17,991Jul 2026 — avg 13,227 · peak 28,265Aug 2026 — avg 12,073 · peak 20,597
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Chart history

#49#1002026-09-152026-10-142026-09-15 — #492026-09-16 — #492026-09-17 — #492026-09-18 — #942026-09-19 — #942026-09-20 — #972026-09-21 — #962026-09-22 — #942026-09-23 — #942026-09-24 — #932026-09-25 — #932026-09-26 — #952026-09-27 — #1002026-09-28 — #972026-09-29 — #972026-09-30 — #982026-10-06 — #982026-10-07 — #972026-10-08 — #972026-10-09 — #972026-10-10 — #972026-10-11 — #982026-10-12 — #962026-10-13 — #942026-10-14 — #94
Best Steam most-played rank per day (census top-100 snapshots).
PositiveNegative
80802026-09-152026-10-142026-09-15: 33 new positive2026-09-15: 13 new negative2026-09-16: 26 new positive2026-09-16: 12 new negative2026-09-17: 26 new positive2026-09-17: 19 new negative2026-09-18: 24 new positive2026-09-18: 9 new negative2026-09-19: 29 new positive2026-09-19: 14 new negative2026-09-20: 31 new positive2026-09-20: 6 new negative2026-09-21: 50 new positive2026-09-21: 19 new negative2026-09-22: 53 new positive2026-09-22: 1 new negative2026-09-23: 80 new positive2026-09-23: 19 new negative2026-09-24: 51 new positive2026-09-24: 11 new negative2026-09-25: 48 new positive2026-09-25: 17 new negative2026-09-26: 50 new positive2026-09-26: 11 new negative2026-09-27: 50 new positive2026-09-27: 16 new negative2026-09-28: 38 new positive2026-09-28: 13 new negative2026-09-29: 29 new positive2026-09-29: 14 new negative2026-09-30: 40 new positive2026-09-30: 12 new negative2026-10-01: 33 new positive2026-10-01: 5 new negative2026-10-02: 61 new positive2026-10-02: 11 new negative2026-10-03: 36 new positive2026-10-03: 17 new negative2026-10-04: 50 new positive2026-10-04: 15 new negative2026-10-05: 37 new positive2026-10-05: 5 new negative2026-10-06: 69 new positive2026-10-06: 17 new negative2026-10-07: 38 new positive2026-10-07: 7 new negative2026-10-08: 37 new positive2026-10-08: 11 new negative2026-10-09: 42 new positive2026-10-09: 7 new negative2026-10-10: 56 new positive2026-10-10: 6 new negative2026-10-11: 42 new positive2026-10-11: 17 new negative2026-10-12: 55 new positive2026-10-12: 7 new negative2026-10-13: 43 new positive2026-10-13: 12 new negative2026-10-14: 32 new positive2026-10-14: 4 new negative
New Steam reviews per day (census review snapshots). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$0.00$0.002024-02-112026-10-142024-02-11 — best price $0.002025-03-26 — best price $0.002026-08-26 — best price $0.002026-09-02 — best price $0.002026-09-09 — best price $0.002026-09-16 — best price $0.002026-09-23 — best price $0.002026-09-30 — best price $0.002026-10-07 — best price $0.002026-10-14 — best price $0.00
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

9351792026-05-28 — 263 pageviews2026-06-01 — 256 pageviews2026-06-05 — 274 pageviews2026-06-09 — 321 pageviews2026-06-13 — 262 pageviews2026-06-17 — 260 pageviews2026-06-21 — 229 pageviews2026-06-25 — 244 pageviews2026-06-29 — 209 pageviews2026-07-03 — 179 pageviews2026-07-07 — 307 pageviews2026-07-11 — 360 pageviews2026-07-15 — 454 pageviews2026-07-19 — 440 pageviews2026-07-23 — 271 pageviews2026-07-27 — 423 pageviews2026-07-31 — 285 pageviews2026-08-04 — 311 pageviews2026-08-08 — 261 pageviews2026-08-12 — 229 pageviews2026-08-16 — 222 pageviews2026-08-20 — 269 pageviews2026-08-24 — 256 pageviews2026-08-28 — 219 pageviews2026-09-01 — 253 pageviews2026-09-05 — 245 pageviews2026-09-09 — 251 pageviews2026-09-13 — 251 pageviews2026-09-17 — 228 pageviews2026-09-21 — 244 pageviews2026-09-25 — 224 pageviews2026-09-29 — 241 pageviews2026-10-03 — 235 pageviews2026-10-06 — 584 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

5.0k4292026-09-30 22:34 — 1,041 viewers2026-10-01 07:34 — 527 viewers2026-10-01 16:34 — 4,574 viewers2026-10-02 01:34 — 3,479 viewers2026-10-02 10:34 — 1,478 viewers2026-10-02 19:34 — 3,197 viewers2026-10-03 04:34 — 1,243 viewers2026-10-03 13:34 — 3,346 viewers2026-10-03 22:34 — 2,240 viewers2026-10-04 07:34 — 893 viewers2026-10-04 16:34 — 1,977 viewers2026-10-05 01:34 — 1,689 viewers2026-10-05 10:34 — 771 viewers2026-10-05 19:34 — 2,059 viewers2026-10-06 04:34 — 1,249 viewers2026-10-06 13:34 — 880 viewers2026-10-06 22:34 — 1,281 viewers2026-10-07 07:34 — 654 viewers2026-10-07 16:34 — 1,824 viewers2026-10-08 01:34 — 1,342 viewers2026-10-08 10:34 — 616 viewers2026-10-08 19:34 — 1,189 viewers2026-10-09 04:34 — 911 viewers2026-10-09 13:34 — 833 viewers2026-10-09 22:34 — 1,596 viewers2026-10-10 07:34 — 770 viewers2026-10-10 16:34 — 1,228 viewers2026-10-11 01:34 — 1,300 viewers2026-10-11 10:34 — 614 viewers2026-10-11 19:34 — 1,247 viewers2026-10-12 04:34 — 888 viewers2026-10-12 13:34 — 713 viewers2026-10-12 22:34 — 1,375 viewers2026-10-13 07:34 — 667 viewers2026-10-13 16:34 — 872 viewers2026-10-14 01:34 — 1,092 viewers2026-10-14 10:34 — 429 viewers2026-10-14 19:34 — 1,288 viewers2026-10-14 21:34 — 1,536 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

Post-launch support: 44 DLC released, first 2024-03-27, latest 2026-08-20 (Steam store data)

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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