I'm starting to think I made a mistake by missing the boat on playing Once Human. Because despite its shooter-focused facade, it sure seems like everyone is just spending all their time building houses in this free-to-play survival game. Dammit, I love building houses.
I wrongly assumed that Once Human was going to be more PvP shooter action in the vein of DayZ than crafting survival in the vein of Valheim, so when my group of friends picked it up I stayed on the sidelines. But now a month later my nightly group voice chat that's usually full of yelling about Rainbow Six Siege and Call of Duty has gotten suspiciously quiet—like when you realize you haven't heard your dog make a single sound for the past hour and that might be a bad thing.
"What's everyone doing?" One of them asked in the midst of this uncharacteristic lull.
"Just working on my house," replied another. And so they were—for hours.
