Once Human Handheld Performance Benchmark

[17th Dimension]

Once Human is a third-person multiplayer survival game that can be played solo or with friends. It shines on a powerful PC with settings maxed out, but how well does it perform on the Steam Deck and ROG Ally? In this performance review, we're checking how the game runs and looks on the two most popular PC gaming handhelds from Valve and ASUS.

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[17th Dimension]

A question for our readers regarding our future handheld performance benchmarks: would you rather see screenshots taken on a high-end PC showcasing the graphics (I'm talking about the screenshots found in the Screenshots section of the piece), or would you prefer to see screenshots taken on the Steam Deck/ROG Ally, showing how games actually look on the handhelds we're testing them on?

 

[GreiverBlade]

personally (no ROG pun intended) i would prefer to see the screen taken from the handheld

i got surprised recently when i finally (again ... no pu... eh, nevermind) installed The First Descendant and got a satisfying FPS rate using low settings and the image quality wasn't even ugly or pixelated ..
tested it @1080p well nothing big but it was playable and for an UE5 game it was a bit impressive ... ofc i would run it at lower res for various reasons
(that one would also be an interesting one to run test on the deck and ally, although it produce audio glitch if played with any power setting lower than 25w )


also welcome and good start

 

[Rubinhood]

> would you rather see screenshots...PC vs. handhelds
Some side by side pictures (PC highest vs. handheld realistic settings) would be the most informative..
The next good option is handheld based pics.

 

[ViperXZ]

So if the game is really CPU heavy the Ally finally outshines the Deck, interesting and rare exception. It’s also questionable how much the Ally is held back by Windows 11, as came to light a few days ago that Windows 11 is bad for Ryzen performance, and the Deck luckily doesn’t use Windows, though this is maybe a topic for another discussion.

 

[Tech Ninja]

Love that you are doing these. Need more systems. Importantly need to add BATTERY LIFE, while playing.

 

[Lianna]

Great idea for review/benchmark, thanks.
Screenshots in 'handheld quality' mode - nicest settings on Ally/Legion for rare dips below 30 fps - preferred.
If a game has one setting that can be turned from high to medium and offer much better framerates - please tell us (sometimes changing shadows from ultra to high does the trick, for Deck the crowd setting in CP2077).
If a game really likes some hardware settings - say, Baldur's Gate 3 apparently prefers 3-4GB VRAM because it needs 12+GB RAM - please tell us.
I guess new popular games 'known' for heavy hardware requirements should be prioritised... so you could offer praise for developers that offer good scaling for handhelds.