Last updated on January 4th, 2026 at 01:01 pm
Once Human – Adventure Game Review
Once Human is a Adventure/Roleplaying game from NETEASE INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT PTE. LTD, first launched in 23rd April 2025.
It’s rated 17+ and currently has 12,238+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Once Human Stand Out
Once Human is a multiplayer open-world survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Join forces with friends to fight for survival, construct your sanctuary, and conquer terrifying aberrations to unravel the truth behind the apocalypse. Do you still hold the answer to what it means to be human?
EXPLORE A SUPERNATURAL OPEN WORLD
The world has fallen. An extraterrestrial substance called Stardust has infected everything—plants, animals, even the air we breathe. Most humans couldn't survive… but you're different. You're a Meta-Human—one of the few who can harness Stardust's power instead of being destroyed by it. With your abilities, you can fight back, rebuild, or even rule this broken world.
CHALLENGE YOUR SURVIVAL INSTINCTS
The Starfall has reshaped everything on the Nalcott. You, as a surviving "Meta," must fight to survive across a vast 256 km² seamless map. Traverse frozen tundras, scale active volcanoes, cross raging rivers and treacherous swamps, or journey through deserts and oases. Whether you hunt, farm, build, or wage all-out war—your only goal is to survive.
TEST YOUR SKILL IN BATTLE AGAINST MONSTROUS FOES
You're not alone in your fight against the ancient horrors. Team up with others to explore the unknown and outsmart your rivals. Face thrilling battles where strategy, teamwork, and quick thinking decide who survives. Work together, share your strengths, and fight for the last remaining resources—because only the strongest will make it out alive.
FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY
Stardust turned people, animals, and objects into monstrous creatures, and now these horrors have taken over the world. But the tables have turned—we are the hunters now, and the Deviants are the prey.
FORGE YOUR BASE, UNLEASH YOUR CREATIVITY
Build your base anywhere in the wild! Customize your hideout however you want—add a patio, kitchen, garage, and more. Store your loot safely and defend it with deadly traps and weapons. Get creative and build the ultimate survival fortress!
DEVIATION PALS ALWAYS BY YOUR SIDE!
From a gun-toting alpaca to a tiny blue dragon chef, or even a hardworking mining buddy, these strange and powerful creatures are everywhere, ready to join your team. They'll fight by your side, help gather resources, and keep your territory running—but don't forget to take care of them! Give them a cozy home, check in often, and keep them happy… or they might just rebel.
With Deviants around, surviving the apocalypse just got a whole lot less lonely.
【Follow Us!】
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【Join the Official Community!】
Discord: https://discord.gg/SkhPPj5K
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/OnceHumanOfficial/
【Official Content Creator Program】
https://creators.gamesight.io/programs/once-human
This Adventure game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Once Human is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 24th December 2025
Recent improvements include:
1.The revamped new player experience is live.
2.The new Combat Deviation Skill System is online.
3.Scenario selection & progress adjusted.
4.Permanent Server merger preselection available.
5.The festival is here! The [Starlight Parcel Station] event & wish machine gacha are open.
6.The new shop feature [Lucky Bazaar] is open! Up to 70% off & new Lightforge Loot Crates.
7.RaidZone tech, craft, resources revamped. Weapon balance changes.
8.Other bug fixes & optimizations.
Download & Availability
Once Human is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
We heard of this game from socks for one they are great guys, but besides that this game was a great game and we love the winter scenario.
We want to play once human on our phone but we want to hook up an controller but it doesnt work.
The game looks great runs smoothly on our older iPhone 13 Pro Max however no controller support. Other games that are similar like where winds meet have only been out for a few weeks and have already added it. Netease please add controller support.
Constant updates on pointless things such as cosmetics rather than actually putting time into fixing the danm game redeem codes can never be claimed because they set limits and not even an hour after a code is released it will be inactive just money hungry.
It takes so long to load that we eventually had to delete it because we dont have time for all that.
The game is good but does not allow controllers on mobile.
A good game would be better if we can use our Backbone to play.
Jesus Christ Is The Only Way.Joel.
If youre trying to play with friends just know they are different servers and different worlds. The different world can be changed by a terminal inside a server. Just make sure to select the same server.
This is one of our favorite games to play its fun to explore freely and capture deviations to help around your base with the variants they have a chance to have Im just glad the name we use for most games arent take but still its a really good game cant wait for more updates.
Great game we wish you can get a free sword but yeah other then that great game.
Can we get help connecting our backbone to this game once human.
We love this game!! Really fun.
We NEED CONTROLLER ACCESS PLEASEEEE.
We downloaded all the required resources, and logged into our account and the game wont load, its stuck on retrieving character 1/6 and keeps restarting the main login. Doesnt crash or freeze, just never loads in the game.
Addictive, smooth, fun, no disappointments.
Amazing game with great graphics, but we would be nice to be able to use controller on the mobile version to make it easier to play.
Good game just wondering if controller support can be added.
Pretty good but it would be better for longer term gameplay if there was controller support.
We like the game overall but the only thing is, it would be nice if we could have a first person perspective which Im trying to adjust to for us it will make it easier to take cover when attacking facilities not just that it will feel like if you were playing call of duty Im pretty sure Im not the only one that would like first person perspective please add it.
Needs controller support. Fingers are too big for such a crowded, yet small UI.
After downloading the update. It wont let us log in anymore. Just giving us errors.
We just saved 33gb by deleting this game. Its not ready yet.
We love the games lore so much and the quality and performance are amazing we probably wont ever find a game like this in years of time.
Someone on SL recommended this and we actually have been hooked since . This is only day one and we havent stopped playing.
Please let us use controllers, more efficient.
El mejor jugador que e jugado para telfonos lo recomiendo al 100 por 100.
We love the game its awesome but playing on iOS and android theyre are pop ins and textures glitches on both iOS and android could you fix and yes the game is a five star in our eyes.
This is a really good game that we found out about from Crowmeda. We would love it for it had controller support since we usually play games with a controller and not touch screen.
We like once human and we wish they had support for back bone game pad.
We were playing this game for about a week and its amazing, if you have a controller just connect it to your phone and BOOM instant addictive game play!!! But if you dont have a controller, playing it regularly is just as fun.
Great game to play on the phone and even better to play on PC.
Great game on pc new to iOS and it plays well.
Please please please add controller support.
This is really a good game. If you enjoy zombie survival type games, building, interacting with other players, team effort, then look no further. We will share pros and cons based on our experience and opinions. Pros – Its not a pay to win game. – Growing or getting stronger is achieved by grinding on the players part. – Building aspect is fabulous. – You can be totally f2p and competitive. – The MMO aspect is good. – Graphics are well done. – Developers seem earnest in dealing with bugs which have been minimal in our experience. Cons – The grind can get boring and repetitive after a while. – Some of the random reward aspects turns us away. – we dont mind spending a little but some of the cosmetic pricing is ridiculous. For the developers – Please add more scenarios – More silos would be beneficial – create a broader trade system where trade is not bound by server scenarios. Maybe a world in itself where you can trade with multiple servers, players, etc. – The building aspect is great, but we would love to see more in this area. More pieces, angles, shapes, plants, trees, and a water feature for pools or fountains.
We love this game a lot. The combat is similar to a lot of shooters, the deviations are a cool added boost. Bunch of choices of classes and small changes in them. Building is nice but could use some tweaks. Endless dream has been our favorite with Starfall Imversion. But it wouldnt work on our pc so we committed to mobile when that released. 40 GB on a PHONE is ridiculous at this point. We have zero room for anything else at this point and its gotten us pretty close to completely deleting it. 2026 (who knows when) for console is far too late. Would appreciate that sooner than later. Cant update anymore. Going to delete soon.
While pretty and least toxic game ever two issues plague us. 1. Chat has been buggy since day 1 with dropping people while they type. 2 how livid am we that dainty cures dont work consistently during Lunar events.
Im seriously considering quitting your game. It has a good story and content however, theres not many players which makes finishing missions difficult but even that is a small issue. The biggest issue is every time theres an update your servers remove our base causing us to spend hours rebuilding as your servers wont allow us to put our base back exactly where it was. If we have to spend hours rebuilding and putting things back just to be able to play, why bother.
Imagine Fo76 and RUST merged into one game, but did away with seamless multiplayer features in exchange for a complex server system where finding your friends in game even if on a team may be impossible. Also, they keep the resets your used to with RUST. Not bad for some people but we like seamless multiplayer and the ability to keep our time spent in form of endless character leveling and legendary inventory. Also half the point of building for us is to show our designs to others, but with eternal land you cannot invite others to your amazing work. Idk for us its like they made the best game in the world and then added 3-4 things that really ruin it for us personally. But still worth a try.
Needs to have better input options.
The App Store says the game takes 3.4GB of storage but once you download load the app your forced to down load a 700MB update and then download 2 more packages 9.7GB and 5.2GB plus the game continues to try to download more stuff so if you want to do a dungeon you gotta download another package just to enter. In total the game now takes all of our free storage (25GB) to the point we cant even take screenshots since its such a large amount of files that you cant even stop from downloading if they had the real amount of space needed listed in the App Store we wouldnt have even bothered wasting our time.
Iv been enjoying the game so much and cant wait for the new scenarios, we do however wish that the scenarios were explained a little better but iverall a great game.
We like farming so we have a decent sized garden but their sa bug thats a huge problem even though their are no shadows and no rain it still, says their getting 0 light from the sun reducing its yield and growth time.
This is THE game to play. It has everything we love in a game. Perform tasks, build a home, explore any area, cook, make weapons and catch little pets (deviants). Best of all, you get to get rid of the bad guys. Im ALL in guys.
Je vous conseille fortement ce jeu il est ingalable en terme de graphisme et vraiment satisfaisant.
Ive done it backwards guys. We have played multiple clones of this game on mobile. And couldnt wait to play this since we learned that this game was the reason for so many clones. We thought some of them were good, but after playing this and realizing that its the original Im hooked. This is a great shoot/loot/builder game. All of its clone dont even come close. The monsters are creative and theres various types. Theres plenty to keep you busy like crafting and exploring new zones. This is so sand boxy too, thats also what we like about it. We can only fit this game and Destiny Rising on our iPhone 11. If we had to choose it would be hard but Id most likely keep this one. Great game 5/5.
So the game is good but can you make the bosses visible one the map we cant find the second one.
Very fun game and hyper realistic it has zombies and other monsters.
Ive been playing this game since 5 months and we experienced everything inside this game One of the best graphic game ever for IOS and SAMSUNG users.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.0.32
- Size: 3,818.30 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, JA, KO, PT, RU, ZH, ES, ZH
- Content Advisory: Frequent/Intense Realistic Violence, Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes, Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes, Loot Boxes, Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References, Infrequent/Mild Medical/Treatment Information, Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content and Nudity, Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: [NETEASE INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT PTE. LTD]()
Last updated: 24th December 2025 | Genre: Adventure, Roleplaying | Developer: NETEASE INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT PTE. LTD