To be honest, I didn’t expect to get into a NetEase survival MMO that’s coming to phones as well as PC, shrugging it off at first as another mobile-first game that would keep me engaged for about as long as it took for my fast food order to arrive. I could not have been more wrong.
Once Human is far from perfect, but it is good. For a free-to-play game, it is stunningly good. Does it break new ground? Not one bit. It’s like a less cartoony, more fully-fleshed out version of creature collector Palworld, in that it throws everything people like from other games into one giant bucket. Am I here for that? Absolutely.
Blasting through a room of sta rdust mons ters is satisfying