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THE FINALS

THE FINALS is the world’s first Dynamism Shooter, a free-to-play, fast-paced, physics-driven, first-person shooter set on the stage of the biggest Gameshow of the future! Fight for Fans and fortune in fully-destructible, virtual Arenas that guarantee no two rounds will ever play the same!

Developer
Embark Studios
Publisher
Embark Studios
Franchise
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Release date
Dec 7, 2023
Store page updated
Sep 10, 2026
Price
Free · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

65.8/ 100

Based on 385 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 🙂 Mostly Positive 73% of 2,295
All time 🙂 Mostly Positive 78% of 276,364
“one of the best shooters, so much fun, unique experience”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
+1.56
Strategy +3.12
“many ways to build loadout and creative ways to play” (38)

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Story & World
+3.51

Not enough data — only 5% of reviews mention this.

World +3.53

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Content Volume
+0.81
Variety +1.50

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Visuals & Sound
+3.76
Visuals +4.08
“visuals are great, skins are great, maps are cool” (40)
I want to leave a review for The Finals, because, , I actually like the game. It’s cool, it’s fun, but there’s basically no matchmaking. You either get sweaty try-hard esports dudes who don’t even touch grass and just grind some -up PvP shooters all day, or you get guys with soft aim, cheats, aimbot, wallhack, you name it. I don’t understand why I should keep playing it. The playerbase is dead — 7k online. The visuals are great, skins are great, events are cool, maps are cool, the destruction, the mechanics, tons of little features and smart ideas — there’s a lot to love, but , the downsides…

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Multiplayer
-0.39
Playing together +1.44
“amazing experience playing with friends” (22)

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Fairness
-2.20
Matchmaking -4.00
“matchmaking for ranked could have been better” (84)

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Tech & Ops
-1.57
Developer support -2.25

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Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time
since launch, by month · major update
70%80%90%100%
Dec 2023Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 2,259 reviews, peak 98/day
050100
Aug 19Sep 16

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by month. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive. "Show updates" marks major updates and DLC the developer posted on Steam (since about 2020) — hover a column to see % positive the month before and after.

Review languages

Languages of the 385 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English46%
  • Russian15%
  • Spanish8%
  • Portuguese8%
  • French6%
  • Chinese5%
  • Other12%

🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.

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