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Top Firearms Ranked for Once Human: 2025 Guide

Author:Kristen Update:Oct 16,2025

Once Human is a multiplayer open-world survival game set in a post-apocalyptic landscape where players battle horrifying supernatural creatures. Developed by Starry Studio, the game is set to launch for mobile users on April 23, 2025. It plunges players into a perilous world teeming with mutated beings, bizarre anomalies, and formidable foes. To survive enemy onslaughts, players must equip themselves with a variety of powerful weapons. This guide ranks the top weapons for all PvE game modes. Explore the list below!

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DB12 – Backfire, an epic-tier shotgun, delivers a base damage of 49×5, a fire rate of 105, and a magazine capacity of 12. Its unique “Frost Vortex” ability generates an AOE zone within 4.5m, ensnaring enemies and dealing 30% Psi Intensity Status Damage per second for 4 seconds. The weapon also offers multiple passive abilities triggered under specific conditions:

  • Hit an enemy 5 times to activate Frost Vortex.
  • Strike enemies within the Frost Vortex once to freeze them for 3 seconds (4-second cooldown, no refreezing during this period).
  • Attacking frozen enemies boosts damage by 60%.

Players can enhance their Once Human experience on a larger PC or laptop screen using BlueStacks, with full keyboard and mouse support.