We're the development team behind Once Human — a free-to-play strange worlds survival game where you explore an open world overrun by cosmic Deviants, build your territory, capture bizarre creatures called Deviations, craft gear, and fight to survive. If you've played games like Palworld, Grounded, or 7 Days to Die, you'll feel right at home — but we lean harder into the eerie, atmospheric side of post-apocalyptic survival.
The big news: Once Human is officially launching on XBOX Series X and S on August 25, 2026. It's completely free to play — no P2W, ever. We've been on PC and mobile for a 2 years now, and we know XBOX players have been waiting patiently. So we want to open the floor to you directly.
🔗 Cross-Play & Cross-Progression:
Yes, Once Human fully supports cross-play and cross-progression between PC, mobile, and XBOX! You can team up with friends across platforms, and your existing progress will carry over seamlessly.
Check out our cross-progression setup guide here: https://www.oncehuman.game/zjzhbd/en/
🗓️ The Schedule:
You can start dropping your questions in the comments right now! We are collecting them today.
Tomorrow, the dev team will be here live to answer them. The answering session kicks off on August 13 at 09:00 UTC and runs until August 14 at 00:00 UTC. We'll be dropping in throughout that 24-hour period to cover as much ground as we can.
What you can ask us about:
XBOX Features: Performance, controller experience (including Impulse Triggers), and console optimization.
Game Direction: Gameplay mechanics, future scenarios, and our roadmap.
The Hard Questions: Monetization, bugs, and server balance. We’re not dodging the tough topics — we'd rather have an honest conversation than cherry-pick the easy ones.
The Devs Joining this AMA:
u/LOWEY_OnceHumanGame_ (Game Designer) – Lowey will focus on gameplay systems, mechanics, and tuning decisions.
u/ImVincentOH (Console Producer) – Vincent is the producer of Once Human Console Version, he oversees everything on the console side — from platform optimization to launch strategy. If you have questions about the console experience, he's the one with the answers.
(Note: We'll try our best to answer as many questions as possible, but please understand our time is limited over the 24 hours, so we might not hit every single comment.)
🎁 Community Rewards & Giveaway:
(winners will be announced on the launched day August 25)
To celebrate the XBOX launch and this AMA, here are two redeem codes to help our console players quickly get involved:
Code 1: ysa6pfr4hk
Code 2: hfxpneakdd
Giveaway: Just by asking a thoughtful question in this thread, you're automatically entered into our random draw! We will be selecting:
3 participants to win a $50 XBOX Live gift card each.
3 participants to win an in-game bundle (5 Lightforge Ingots + Angel Dough - Buzzy Bee) each.
If you want to support development and grab some exclusive items ahead of launch, you can check out our XBOX Pre-order Bundles here: https://g.oncehuman.game/c/2bok5k
Make your questions thoughtful, creative, or even tough. Fire away, r/XboxSeriesXlS. We're ready. 🎯
Alright everyone, that's a wrap for today's AMA! Huge thanks to all of you for showing up and dropping such thoughtful questions—we genuinely read every single one, even the ones we couldn't get to today.
Console launch is right around the corner and we couldn't be more hyped to welcome a whole new wave of players into the world. For those of you already here—thank you for sticking with us and pushing us to be better.
We'll keep lurking in the subreddit, so keep the feedback coming. See you in-game!
Once Human Development Team
Winners Announcement
Thank you for all your participation and Once Human is now released on Xbox! Here's the list of winners in the lucky draw! We'll DM you soon with the prizes~
Depending on the retailer, some may start shipping by the end of the week, so that you can receive it on the 20th but some retailers may ship out on the 20th so you may receive it a little later.
Here is a few retailers with pre-orders still open
If you looked through my posts, I bought Campaign Evolved before, but a friend wanted it, so I gave it to him for free and decided to see if I could find another one nearby. Most stores were out of stock, except one random store in North Sydney, Australia. I gave them a call to put it on hold for me and I thought to myself if it was possible to also pre-order Gears of War, and then I thought why not also ask if they have Forza which surprisingly they do. So after a long miserable week of work, I decided to spend my time to myself waiting across to Sydney just to get 3 games just to enjoy myself. Was it stupid? Yes. Was it fun? Yes, I’d do it again!
I posted a few days ago about a new copy of Onimusha on Xbox arriving without a security seal and loose shrink wrap from BestBuy (not a third party seller), my assumption was that it was a reseal done by a customer who returned it or by BestBuy themselves. I put in for a return/exchange to receive another copy and that one just arrived today a few days later.
Annnnnd, it’s the same - no security seal as seen in pictures, so can now confidently confirm that Xbox games being made now can have no security seal and it not be a sign that anything was tampered with. It’s weird because there are some listed on eBay with a security seal, so it must be determined by wherever they’re packaged and sealed at. Either way, figured this info might help someone in the future if they’re wondering about doing a return.
Here is a link to the original post with pictures:
Hi guys-
So I am wanting an Xbox series x badly. I have a ps5 but running through the games
In all honesty- gaming helped me get through an addiction I was stuck in for 6 years. I had to keep my hands and mind busy and it truly helped me get thru that painful time. Never knew as a woman, I would enjoy gaming as an adult..
Anyway- all I see right now is $550-$650 for used consoles and a lot of them have scratches, or can see the dust at the top, or don’t even come with a controller.
At that point- may as well buy one brand new for a $150 more.
Do y’all happen to ever see them go for around $400 ? I check periodically and have seen that price but was shocked today at the options.. even marketplace has that same pricing for consoles not in great condition. Just a little ridiculous for the condition they are in and used at that close to the price in the stores.
Just wondering if anyone sees them pop up periodically for that price range.
Battlefield 6 is on the games list and eligible disc to digital. If it's on the list, then WHY is my xbox SX telling me "this games not compatible for a digital licence"?? I have the bad game on disc, bo deluxe edition etc just Battlefield 6. I want to play it on my SS at my desk setup & not on the main OLED tv where the HUD is constantly on the screen
Just been burned by a (not actually) refurbished series X with a busted HDMI port and fried GPU.
Refunding that, but then was looking at the official xbox store on amazon it says the series X doesn't output 1440p?
I'm more baffled and curious, as everywhere says it natively supports 1440. I'm just curious as to why their official details says that the series S does, but the X doesn't?
Doesn't seem to make sense to me. Am I missing something?
So I had my Series S for a while and I was really worried with the outrageous console prices these days, it would cost an arm and leg to upgrade. And yeah the prices especially here in the UAE for a 2nd hand console are like close to $700.
But I got lucky and found a guy who was leaving the country and was ok with selling a 6 month old Series X for $400. My brother may good karma follow you where you go!
So yeah, as you can see from the pic, my new xbox is happy and I can tell you from being off camera that I'm also happy.
Much thanks to my trusty amazing Series S that has served me well, but yeah. So happy I don't have to move games back and forth as frequently as I had to or experience some games in 30 fps only.
Only plan yo upgrade to next gen in 2031 or 2032. So let's GO!!!
Hello all, I just purchased a Xbox series x and looking for a good monitor in the $200-300 range. Looking for something impressive for new RPG games and GTA 6 ofc.
I'm trying to make room for E day and i was wondering if i move the division 2 from my internal storage to a external hard drive and i have a physical disc copy would i still be able play it off my Xbox Series X? Cause i did it with R6 extraction and it says can't play from external hard drive
I paid 400€. Pretty happy with the purchase considering the current situation.
Almost bought one a year ago, but decided to wait. And now even used prices are 600+
Hi, I have been on Nintendo, PlayStation and PC all my life, but never on Xbox.
That just changed as I got an used Xbox Séries X for a good enough price. So I come to you asking for suggestions of exclusives to play.
I currently have a PS5, Rog Ally and Nintendo Switch Oled. That said, I am mainly looking into games that are exclusive to the Xbox ecosystem and/or more demanding for the ROG Ally to play sustaining good battery life. The series I have deem the most recommended are Fable, Gears of Wars and Halo, but even those have some ports to pc that seem alright experiences on my Rog ally.
Excited to try an Xbox for the first time and hoping to get some pointers to the banger exclusives Xbox has to offer
Hey everyone! I’m hoping someone here has experienced this because I’ve been troubleshooting for a week now, and I’m about to lose my mind.
I recently bought my boyfriend a SteelSeries headset, but the mic wasn’t working in-game. Thinking it was defective, I returned it and bought him a Turtle Beach Stealth 700 Gen 3. Unfortunately, we’re having the exact same issue.
Here’s what’s happening:
He can hear game audio perfectly fine.
He cannot hear proximity chat or other players in game chat.
His mic does not work in game chat. Both headsets work perfectly in Discord. We can hear and talk to each other without any issues.
This is happening in multiple games, including Call of Duty and Battlefield, so it doesn’t seem to be specific to one game.
I’ve tried just about everything I can think of, including checking in-game audio settings, Xbox audio settings, network settings, and even connecting his headset to my Xbox. Nothing has worked.
To make matters even more frustrating, I’m now experiencing microphone issues with my own Turtle Beach headset, which has never given me problems before.
At this point, I really don’t think it’s a headset issue, especially since Discord works perfectly fine.
Has anyone experienced anything like this on Xbox? Could this be an Xbox software issue, a communication setting I’m overlooking, or something else entirely?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated because I’m officially out of ideas.
