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The First Descendant

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

SteamPlayStation StoreMicrosoft StoreGame Pass

ActionAdventureRPGFree To Play

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: Third person

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!

The First Descendant is an Action, Adventure, RPG and Free To Play game released in 2024, priced as free-to-play, with a Mixed review sentiment (57% of 111670 reviews).— census verdict as of 2026-09-20

57%
positive of 112k reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
3,853
twitch viewers (latest)
3853.0
viewers/channel (concentration)
30/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
59/100
IGDB user rating (113 ratings)
1
Nexus mods (433 downloads)
3.96★
PlayStation Store rating (62,030 ratings)
56/100
opencritic · weak · 26% recommend · from 24 critics
43h
time to beat (IGDB)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
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
  • · 4,748 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~594/week).
  • · Review velocity down 40% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (72,344 reviews).
  • · Top 1% of 27,675 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-10-05

Tier history: healthy→cooling (Oct 5), cooling→healthy (Sep 7)

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$0.00

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

12-month high $0.00 · on sale 9 of 9 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: 418 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 444 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 397 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 206 negativeWeek of 2026-10-01: 113 positiveWeek of 2026-10-01: 53 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$0.00$0.002024-07-312026-10-142024-07-31 — best price $0.002026-02-05 — 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

338972026-06-01 — 144 pageviews2026-06-05 — 236 pageviews2026-06-09 — 155 pageviews2026-06-13 — 292 pageviews2026-06-17 — 229 pageviews2026-06-21 — 140 pageviews2026-06-25 — 159 pageviews2026-06-29 — 128 pageviews2026-07-03 — 212 pageviews2026-07-07 — 163 pageviews2026-07-11 — 121 pageviews2026-07-15 — 132 pageviews2026-07-19 — 144 pageviews2026-07-23 — 120 pageviews2026-07-27 — 191 pageviews2026-07-31 — 119 pageviews2026-08-04 — 106 pageviews2026-08-08 — 115 pageviews2026-08-12 — 125 pageviews2026-08-16 — 274 pageviews2026-08-20 — 200 pageviews2026-08-24 — 241 pageviews2026-08-28 — 232 pageviews2026-09-01 — 179 pageviews2026-09-05 — 198 pageviews2026-09-09 — 199 pageviews2026-09-13 — 208 pageviews2026-09-17 — 166 pageviews2026-09-21 — 162 pageviews2026-09-25 — 150 pageviews2026-09-29 — 97 pageviews2026-10-03 — 156 pageviews2026-10-07 — 251 pageviews2026-10-11 — 176 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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