Once Human
Build, farm, shoot, and cooperate in this top MMO
The Once Human servers are already crammed with sprawling multi-level estates.
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MULTIPLAYER OPEN-WORLD SURVIVAL
A SURVIVAL MMO from NetEase, a developer that specializes in mobile-first games that keep you busy for about as long as it takes for your fast food order to arrive? No thanks.
But wait. While Once Human is far from perfect, it is good. In fact, for a free-toplay game, it's stunning. It's like a less cartoony, more fully fleshed-out version of creature collector Palworld. And that's no bad thing.
Once you're done with the detailed character creation, you jump into the game as a 'meta-human', a new mutation of homo sapiens adapted to alien 'stardust' that has turned most of the planet into monsters. Blasting through an entire room of stardust monsters is satisfying, but not remotely difficult—at least during your first 'Novice' season.