Once Human is currently in its multi-week long Closed Beta testing, its third in fact. A vast open-world survival MMO with role-playing elements, the game promises to be everything that the critically panned The Day Before wasn’t, and ultimately didn’t deliver on in the end. The similarities really do stop at the basic genre description.
Once Human already has acclaim for its systems, and has garnered a rank of #14 on Steam’s most wishlisted charts, with 70K followers. On its own website, over 10 million pre-registrations have been recorded already, between Steam and mobile smartphones, having only been open since late December, or early January this year.
UPDATED April 14
Once Human Release Date And Time
Starry Studio, the developers and publishers of Once Human, hasn’t formally announced an official date for the game’s release. The release window has been declared to be Q3 2024 on Once Human’s Steam store page, with no particular specificity on its Google Play Store page either.
Q3 2024 refers to the third quarter of a calendar year, which would be the three months of July, August, and September. That is 92 possible dates on which Once Human could potentially be released. Watch this space for more.
Once Human: Is It Free To Play?
While the Once Human Closed Betas have all been free to play, no purchase required, nothing concrete has been stated regarding the actual business model of Once Human on launch. If F2P, the game will likely be supported by micro-transactions, which will hopefully be cosmetic only, with no P2W (pay to win) elements. Watch this space for more.
Once Human: Is There PvE or PvP?
Players can opt for PvE only server play, or join in on the more chaotic PvP worlds, completely at their own discretion. However, this will be a one-time decision, as created characters are non-transferable between servers. A new character can of course be created, in order to play on another server. The previous character will be retained, and remain separate and distinct.
Servers themselves have distinct “Worlds”, wherein players can take all carried gear with them, but not buildings and the like. A function does exist to migrate player structures between Worlds, if so desired.
In PvP, certain zones on Worlds are designated “contestable” areas, and are shared across Worlds on the same server. This is to promote common objectives to strive for, and create the point of conflict for PvP itself.
Once Human: Is It In Early Access?
While Early Access has become a common launch model for developers and publishers to acquire both financial backing and feedback for their games, Starry Studios has made no statements regarding this possibility with its Steam version, or even on mobile platforms. The three closed betas are already providing plenty of player feedback as it stands. Watch this space for more.
That’s all we really know about Once Human and its potential release date and time on Steam PC, Google Play for Android smartphones, and App Store for iOS Apple iPhones and iPads.
