New free-to-play survival game Once Human isn't basking in praise, but it does have an unnecessarily granular character creator with no guard rails
Author: Tyler Wilde,
published 4 months ago,
Free-to-play survival game Once Human launched on Steam today, and after playing the NetEase production for an hour, my main observation is that the feeling of uncertainty and discovery that the survival genre used to be all about has lately been replaced with tutorial screens and boring exposition—the price of popularity, I guess! It's possible that Once Human opens up after you get past the copper ingot crafting lessons, and I've seen some cool monster designs so far, so that's a positive. Some of them were even of my own making... Read more.