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The First Descendant cover art

The First Descendant

NEXON Games Co., Ltd. · NEXON · 2024-06-30

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ActionAdventureRPGFree To Play

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Jul 02, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Sep 19, 2023 (PlayStation 5), Jul 02, 2024 (PlayStation 4), Sep 19, 2023 (Xbox One), Sep 19, 2023 (Xbox Series X|S)

The First Descendant is a third-person looter shooter powered by Unreal Engine 5. Become a Descendant. Fight for the survival of humanity. Descendants have unique abilities to tackle both solo and co-op missions. Up to 4 players use varied mechanics to defeat giant bosses. BE THE FIRST DESCENDANT!

57%
positive of 112k reviews
Mixed
steam rating
4,160
twitch viewers (latest)
30/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
59/100
IGDB user rating (113 ratings)
43h
time to beat (IGDB)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Free
steam price (US)
The First Descendant is a free-to-play multiplayer online role-playing looter shooter developed and published by Nexon. The game was released on 2 July 2024.

Trailer

The First Descendant trailer thumbnail

The First Descendant - Official Trailer

≈978,088 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Cooling
  • · 4,905 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~613/week).
  • · Review velocity down 51% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (72,344 reviews).
  • · Top 2% of 10,791 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 2 of 2 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
39k39k20242026Week of 2024-06-01: 285 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 59 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 38,803 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 33,541 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 6,392 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 5,492 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 3,061 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2,623 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1,788 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1,298 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 3,259 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 886 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 2,326 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 803 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 958 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 555 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 704 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 466 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 870 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 529 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 830 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1,729 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 671 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 402 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 680 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 408 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 752 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 310 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 756 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 622 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 462 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 312 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 407 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 263 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 956 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 372 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 489 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 242 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 635 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 256 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 465 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 306 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 366 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 190 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 372 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 195 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 337 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 191 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 251 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 162 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 287 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 161 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 235 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 132 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Attention

4541022026-06-01 — 144 pageviews2026-06-04 — 155 pageviews2026-06-07 — 156 pageviews2026-06-10 — 129 pageviews2026-06-13 — 292 pageviews2026-06-16 — 200 pageviews2026-06-19 — 138 pageviews2026-06-22 — 144 pageviews2026-06-25 — 159 pageviews2026-06-28 — 171 pageviews2026-07-01 — 136 pageviews2026-07-04 — 184 pageviews2026-07-07 — 163 pageviews2026-07-10 — 154 pageviews2026-07-13 — 144 pageviews2026-07-16 — 161 pageviews2026-07-19 — 144 pageviews2026-07-22 — 162 pageviews2026-07-25 — 138 pageviews2026-07-28 — 158 pageviews2026-07-31 — 119 pageviews2026-08-03 — 129 pageviews2026-08-06 — 143 pageviews2026-08-09 — 116 pageviews2026-08-12 — 125 pageviews2026-08-15 — 216 pageviews2026-08-18 — 217 pageviews2026-08-21 — 236 pageviews2026-08-24 — 241 pageviews2026-08-27 — 218 pageviews2026-08-29 — 223 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

24
achievements tracked
83.3%
earned "Ready to Move On?"
22.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opOnline Co-opCross-Platform MultiplayerIn-App PurchasesDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller Support

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

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS5 (PlayStation)50,51616%25
Steam (Steam)44,6558%24
Xbox Series, Xbox One (Xbox)29,9919%24
PS4 (PlayStation)20,73918%25

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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