Once Human
Skip · Multiplayer · 2024
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The reviews do not carry it. What it costs you is time.
- Length
- 33.4h
- Price
- Free to play
- Reviews
- 79% positive
Recent reviews trending up: 91% over the last 30 days against 79% all-time.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 750ti 4G / AMD Radeon RX550 / Qualcomm Adreno X1 GPU, 100 GB of storage. Windows only.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
- Player count is unknown. We assumed a small player base, about 500 owners.
- Steam lists in-app purchases but we have no detail on them. Small caution applied.
The value story
Against its own genre it lands in the top 20 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 79 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Where Winds Meet (free, scores 50) beats it on value, while it beats IdleOn - The Incremental MMO (free, scores 42).
Players rate it 79 percent positive over its lifetime, and the last 30 days run 91 percent. It is aging into a better game than its average suggests.
HowLongToBeat players log 33.4 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 265, 7.9 times as much.
189,286 people have reviewed it, which is a big enough crowd to settle the number.
25.3K players were online in it when we last checked, on Sep 27, 19:45 UTC.
The drop-off
1% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
25.3K players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 19:45 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Once Human scores 45/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. Player count is unknown, so the score assumes a small player base; Steam shows 189,286 reviews, so it has at least that many owners. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2139460/once-humanReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 25.
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