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0.1 hours at review13,239 people found this helpful
The First Descendant
The First Descendant suits players who want third-person shooting, character abilities, and loot progression alongside solo missions and four-player co-op. The Steam PC version offers distinct Descendants, weapons, and gear, while giant bosses demand coordinated mechanics. At $0.00 from 
Microsoft Store, the offer can be weighed directly against Steam’s price. Buy according to your play plans: players who enjoy developing builds and returning for cooperative fights will find more value in the equipment loop than someone seeking only a short solo campaign. The comparison is direct: Steam is $0.00, while the offer is $0.00 at Microsoft Store.
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Past 36 months · Updated dailyHistorical Low~ $0.002024-07Current Low Across Stores~ $0.00Microsoft StoreAt its historical low now
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01About The First Descendant
The First Descendant is a free-to-play third-person looter shooter with RPG elements on Steam PC. Choose distinct Descendants, combine abilities with firearms, and use grappling hooks through scenario and World Missions. Up to four players can challenge giant bosses with unique mechanics and multiple difficulties. Weapons, gear, and character upgrades create different routes for growth. The interface supports Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Polish, Portuguese-Brazil, and Russian. The Steam PC version released on June 29, 2024. The game currently shows 57% positive reviews from 112,670 reviews.
Credits
Developer
NEXON Games Co., Ltd.
Publisher
NEXON
Lowest recorded in 36 months
$0.002024-07-31 · SteamBase game · same records as the chart above; USD history, not a regional Steam low.Language support
| Language | Interface | Subtitles | Audio |
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| Simplified Chinese | Yes | Yes | — |
| Traditional Chinese | Yes | Yes | — |
| English | Yes | Yes | Yes |
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Steam PC edition data · 2026-10-20
02Before you buy
Modes
The Steam PC version is free to play and supports single-player missions plus cooperative play for up to four players.
Languages and audio
The interface supports English, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese. English voice audio and subtitles are listed.
Steam PC features
The Steam PC edition includes cross-platform multiplayer and captions. Controller support is not specified in the supplied data.
03Frequently asked questions
What kind of game is The First Descendant?
You play as a Descendant, combining firearms, abilities, and grappling hooks against invading forces.
How does co-op work?
Up to four players can fight giant bosses together, targeting their mechanics and body parts.
How does progression work?
Characters use three guns, four secondary accessories, and other gear that changes stats or adds abilities.
What setting and technology does it use?
The Steam PC version uses Unreal Engine 5 and presents a science-fiction fantasy story across missions.
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Popular Steam reviews
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Not recommendedSteam player
This game was really fun but the Terms of Service (TOS) is something to be reviewed closely and also the reason I'm not recommending this game. A few excerpts as of 7-11-24: They own anything you create for content related to this game and owe you nothing if they decide to use it, sell it, etc.: "You hereby grant Nexon a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, fully transferable and sublicensable, non-exclusive, worldwide right and license to use your User Content in any and all media in any manner and for any purpose (including without limitation commercial, advertising, and promotional purposes) to the greatest extent permitted by applicable law, including without limitation the rights to reproduce, copy, modify, perform, display, publish, distribute, broadcast, transmit, or otherwise communicate to the public, or create derivative works from or adapt, use or otherwise exploit by any means whether now known or unknown and without any further notice or compensation to you of any kind. To the extent permitted by applicable law, you waive any moral rights of paternity, publication, reputation, or attribution with respect to Nexon’s and other players’ use and enjoyment of User Content in connection with the Services. The license grant to Nexon, and the above waiver of any applicable moral rights, survives any termination or expiration of the Terms." Any feedback or comments you make are also their property to do with as they wish: "Any ideas, suggestions, proposals, comments, feedback, or other submissions (including without limitation those that provide feedback on our Services or suggest new content, features, products, or similar ideas) (collectively, “Feedback”), regardless of whether you provide such Feedback in a public or private medium, will not be treated as confidential or proprietary. This means that if you provide Feedback to Nexon, you are waiving all rights to it and are allowing it to be shared and used by us or others for any purpose, including without limitation using, sharing, and commercially exploiting the Feedback any way we see fit without any notice or compensation to you. Nexon does not return or regularly acknowledge Feedback we receive, and does not have any obligation related to your Feedback." These are only a few parts of the TOS. I encourage you to read it more closely and decide if you want to support this game or not.Show moreShow less
3.9 hours at review8,076 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
Fair Review that Explains the "Mixed" Reviews I have played over 100 hours and I will attempt to give a fair review that explains the state of the game with limited copium or trash talking. This is as of 7/12/2024. Pros: -The game is FREE and as of the current state, you can farm everything in the game without spending a dime other than skins -The grappling feature of the game provides a fresh take to the looter shooter genre and can create many different play styles. You can grapple onto walls to fly around, grapple to an enemy and melee for a free knock down effect, you can grapple onto a boss's armor pieces to tear it down, etc. -Variety of activities to do: different types of missions, ops, surviving waves of monsters, bossing (colossus), vault hunting, etc. -There are a total of 14 descendants (or playable characters) in the game albeit you gota farm for most of them. This game gives you 3 free characters through natural progression. Each character is quite unique and surely there will be someone who your preferred play style matches. With more characters coming on the way - Mod System : This is a great feature similar to "traits" or "passives" in other games. It provides different builds that fit your playstyle. You can easily spend hours strategizing what the best mods are, farming those mods, and using them for boss fights. -Boobas and peaches. Nuff said Cons: -The game is free as said above BUT if you do want to pay, it is extremely expensive compared to other games (its Nexon go figure) -Quality of Life: As this is a new game, it comes with flaws in QoL. For example, the "Access Info" section is really great for locating and planing what to farm and grind BUT they do not make that well known unless you are poking around each tab in the menu. -Story was meh at best and the voice actors were really not that great. It did change dramatically when I changed the voice to Korean (think of it as sub vs dub for anime). *Honorary mention fact (take it how you will): game has resemblances to Warframe and Destiny 2 Personal Opinion: -I have played over 100 hours in this game and usually I quit after storymode. Yes, I said the story is poopoo but that being said, it still made me play for a long time. Why is that? For me it is simple: Grappling. I see people mainly using grapple to run away or for mobility but you can use them offensively as well. Think of Attack on Titan with guns basically. You can grapple high up to avoid a mob then rain bullets on them from above. I would never get sick of that. Plus a free crowd control for grappling and meleeing an enemy? Priceless. -The game is free and as of right now nothing seems P2W. Yes, you can speed your progression by buying from the store such as the Ultimate Descendants that will probably take days if not weeks to farm. But is it necessary to have fun? Absolutely not. -I also want to debunk the drop rate complaints people are making. If you took middle school math, probability is a fixed number. Just because you tossed a coin with 50% chance of either side 10 times, does not mean you will get 5 of each side. You can technically still get 10 tails and no heads. "This item is 20% drop rate and I ran it 50 times still didnt get it. The drop rates are rigged!" is a common complaint i hear. Yes I felt this too but you gota remember probability does not guarantee a drop no matter how many runs since each run is its own individual probability dice roll. Final Verdict: -Despite obvious flaws in the game, I honestly think this game is worth a shot. I know I do this too but just because a game has "Mixed" reviews does not mean you will not enjoy it. Give it a try and make your opinion but I recommend this game based on my opinions shared above. Thanks for reading my TED Talk. If you made it here, I like pizza 🍕 Edit: formatting Edit 2: Just wana say thanks everyone. I never got awards on reviews before lol albeit I only left a few.Show moreShow less
121.9 hours at review7,656 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
I was going to play it but POW! moment you go to log in its asking for consent to share your information with whoever they want including 3rd parties, when i took a look at the terms MY GOD thats alot of info. They gonna be making more money from your info than the micro transactions with this. Hard pass...Show moreShow less
0.2 hours at review5,310 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
Nobody will read my review so I Will do 10 push ups Every Like this gets.Show moreShow less
1.2 hours at review7,264 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
Mixed Reviews, You Know Why, RIGHT ??? Here is a short summary. By this I mean the whole text btw, - please open the review itself for better text alignment - 1.Nexons TFD EULA. -> Stealing Personal Data <- 2.Unknown software within TFDs gamefiles. -> "BlackCipher64.aes" does not behave normal <- 3.1 TFDs casino gameplay loop. -> items availability via percentages (drop chances) <- 3.2 Nexons Lawsuit. -> Nexon fined by the "Korean Fair Trade Commission" for "deceptive loot box practices", (faking the drop chance of certain items in their game "MapleStory") <- 4.Nexons priority is making money. -> Caliber currency and caliber in-game shop etc. <- 5.Actual -> Game Content <- review. 1. EULA was written by crazy people who don't care about your privacy and your personal data. Your personal data is most likely going to be selled to a long list of thirdparties. "yay" In case of a data breach, Nexon and thirparties are not the one at fault for losing all your personal data to some random people, who want to sell yours on the Black Market. Why? Because you silly human agreed to their EULA, just like meeeee. "thumbs up" lol To put it in a nutshell, Nexons TFD EULA calls for Stealing Personal Data, they do not care about you and do what they want. 2. Besides the kernel-level anticheat "EasyAntiCheat", TFD comes also with some unknown inhouse software delivered, called "BlackCipher64.aes" (file name). We have only a few assumptions what this software does, which are the following: - Another anticheat which just works like any other anticheat, "doing cool stuff you know". (Monitoring your whole pc) - Ransomware which tries to access folders and files within the kernel level layer of your pc and-or other folders and files ,and tries to execute specific actions on these. Actions like to encrypt, tamper, modify, copy, delete or to (steal) them, etc. If you had read Nexons EULA, you would have known by now, that Nexon most likely even does this. What it also does: - "BlackCipher64" files are in connection with files which has names like "NGClient64 and "BlackCall64" in them. Both of them are also under the name of Nexon and all of them work probably as one whole thing. I'm not 100% sure about this part tho. There is a lot of evidence for both of those assumptions, so much at least that they could be confirmed as truthful. The reason for why I'm even mentioning this, is because a lot of people have reported unauthorized actions from software within Nexons game files like "BlackCipher64.aes". The problem here is that we don't know what this is for, and what it does. Not to mention that Nexons TFD EULA is ridiculous. Nexon has No Right to say that we can trust them, simply because we can not trust them when they put unknown software in their games which does not behave normal and they have an EULA which calls for Stealing Personal Data. 3.1 The drop chance of certain items are incredible low which makes the game even more luck based and grindier. The most items you'll need in the game have a drop chance of 20% or lower. Items which are considered as extremely rare are at 10% or lower. The rest is 32% (the items nobody needs of course). Not to mention that you have to stack this up with another extra (20%) drop chance for the Amorphus Material itself which you need, even in the first place in order to be able to get the item. Many people clearly don't like these drop rates. 3.2 The inquiry began back in 2021 where the "Korean Fair Trade Commission" looked into MapleStory from Nexon after they were required to publish the rate odds of their lootboxes in MapleStory. The KFTC alleges that between 2011 and 2021, Nexon covertly lowered the drop rates for certain high-value lootboxes. They also set some items = 0.00%. So that in the end you could not even get those items. Nexon was fined 11.6 Billion Won (approximately $8.9 million). However this fine is extremely small compared to the amount of profit they made between 2011 and 2021, 550 billion won ($418 million). And we don't know if they pull the same move on us with their videogame "The First Descendant". 4. The currency "Caliber" which you can buy for real money is fixed at 60%-95% of the price of an item which you can buy in the shop. Example: The Descendant Gley costs "600 Caliber", for "$9.99" you'll get "520 Caliber" Nexon makes it crystal clear that they want to milk money out of us, the whole game structure is about making money. 5. -Game content review here- Movement is awesome. Combat is pretty good. Graphics are good enough if you don't change your graphic settings below mid-high. Characters are made done pretty well. Good looking women and men, everyone wants that. Performance is not good, the performance sucks (with graphic cards below the high-end standard). The only bad content which you get slapped in your face with, is the story, worst story I've ever seen. After you've finished the story and you do some stuff in the second difficulty, it's getting kinda boring to be honest. Had a lot of fun with my 100+ hours on this game, but I think now it's time to rest. -> 7/10 overall <- Now for my last words. Why am I giving this game a negative review? It's kinda obvious. I really like the game, but.. ..there is one thing which ruins it. And this one thing is "NEXON"Show moreShow less
103 hours at review3,635 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
Nobody will read my review so I Will do 10 push ups Every Like this gets.Show moreShow less
0.2 hours at review5,069 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
In the beta test you could craft paints for free to add a flavour of unique to your character, Nexon decided to remove this in the official game. Instead now you are charged 25 of the in game paid currency the smallest bundle costs around £4 to get 250. That in itself doesn't seem too pricey until you notice that you don't get to keep that paint despite paying for it. Say for example you want to paint a torso piece and it has say 5 slots you can customise. You'll need to buy x5 paints even if its the same colour JUST to paint it fully. If you purchased the 250 in game currency bundle you'd immediately spend 125 of it right away, on paint. People may say stuff like ''It's a free game they need money'' my friend, wait until you see the costs of skins in the shop oh and did I mention you CANNOT customise with paint the base game appearance for your character it literally forces you to pay for a skin and then forces you to pay if you want to paint it. Imagine if you apply the wrong one by mistake. Yikes. It gives you the option to buy every single item to void farming for it which is basically the core aspect of the game that's on top of being able to rush crafting instead of waiting but even then why bother going through all that when you can buy characters fully made and ready to use? Haven't even gotten to the best part here you can pay for extra upgrades to your character, at this current time I don't actually know if it's even possible for free to use players to get that chance but, I wouldn't be shocked if they can't considering the track history of taking down games nexon has after getting your money. Other points to note that isn't money motivated is that you can actually get in the way of people during combat. Body blocking is SO FUN when you're trying to use a range ability isn't nexon? Not even the option to crouch down in this game and let people engage in combat while you duck down out the way. I have a modern pc and graphics card I checked the requirements for the game before downloading it and I can more than handle the game and yet what's this ? Stuttering sure okay not frequent but the fact it happens at all? It's a cop out to say it's because of the servers nexon has had plenty of time to prepare for it and after the full 10 hours or more that the game went down for and it still happens? Check the terms of service did you notice what they want access to? It's more than suspicious don't you think considering the amount of encouragement you get to buy stuff. During the beta test alot of the community complained about the character Bunny wanting her to be one of the easier characters to obtain earlier on. She has quickly became the poster girl for the game that in itself is perfectly fine until you play the game. She is easily the most brokenly overpowered character currently in the game which is why so many users are mainly using her. You may wonder now is there even any good points to the game that can be noted? The only thing I truly have to say in the light of positive is that the cut scenes are very pretty to watch but that's it. My overall opinion is to avoid the game for now, If you still want to play it that's entirely your choice but if you do don't buy anything for a couple of months, what's the point in paying for stuff if the game gets taken offline after a short period of time? The more the community fuels nexons greed the worse it's be this is not how gamers should be treated. If you want a game that's free and does justice to both free and paid members go and play Warframe.Show moreShow less
16 hours at review3,265 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
Nobody will read my review so I Will Eat 1 Tablespoon of ketchup For Every Like this gets.Show moreShow less
0.2 hours at review3,562 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
The game was fun enough for the time I played it, but the fact that it has two kernel-level anti-cheats (seriously, TWO!?), and that the EULA openly admits to them gathering and sending off all your data, without even so much as an attempt at anonymization, even while you're not playing the game (oh now it makes sense why there's a second one), is absurd. It was fun, but not "have full access to my computer and everything on it" fun.Show moreShow less
6.9 hours at review2,320 people found this helpful
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