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First Day

First Day

It's the first day of the rest of your life

Released Aug 23, 2019 Developer BadWolf Games Platforms Windows · Mac · Linux IndieSurvivalStrategyTactical RPGPost-apocalyptic
View on Steam ↗ Free (US · as of 2026-05-13)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-28.

47.8%positive136 reviews
Recommended · 11 found this helpful

“In all honesty, for someone who creates a game like this on their own, it's excellent. You can't expect an AAA game here and the tutorial intro sequence is unfortunately way too long - the game master explains here in speech bubbles how everything works. This is a good idea, but…”

— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs played
Not recommended · 47 found this helpful

“What a piece of crap... first you must choose a name from a list, you cannot choose your own and the list is not even in alphabetical order! Then you stand in a spot listening to someone talk to you in Russian and while they explain things, you get attacked by a huge bee and now…”

— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played
Not recommended · 10 found this helpful

“Unfortunately, the game is Junk. I was able to play it once but something killed me withing 5 minutes. Now, it doesn't matter what i do, I die right after the tutorial.”

— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. History through 2026-08 via SteamCharts; self-collected from the Steam API since Aug 2026.

885all-time peak
0 100 200 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 No data collected for this period No data collected for this period No data collected for this period No data collected for this period No data collected for this period No data collected for this period No data collected for this period 178 avg · Jun 2026

Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-28.

32achievements
10.2%median completion
9.4%rarest: The large family
65.7% of players 58.1% of players 57.8% of players 27.3% of players 16.4% of players 16.2% of players 15.7% of players 13.6% of players 13.5% of players 13.4% of players 12.5% of players 11.8% of players 10.6% of players 10.5% of players 10.5% of players 10.2% of players 10.2% of players 10.2% of players 10.2% of players 10.1% of players 10.1% of players 10.1% of players 10.1% of players 10.1% of players 10.1% of players 10.1% of players 10.1% of players 9.5% of players 9.5% of players 9.5% of players 9.5% of players 9.4% of players 65.7% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
65.7%Start Revolution! — Start Game
58.1%Creator — Create World
57.8%Nuclear Boom! — Start Play
Rarest badges of honor
9.4%The large family — Have 10 children
9.5%One Punch Man — Upgrade the crit skill of one of the survivors to the maximum level
9.5%Overmind — Upgrade the Wisdom skill of one of the survivors to the maximum level

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Jun 19, 2025
1.2.16

Now the equipment window displays the quantity of each item. Now after changing the location, time will not pass and you will not be able to die until the loading window closes. Fixed a bug with broke

May 21, 2025
1.2.15

Hello everyone! I haven’t been around for a while, and unfortunately, that’s starting to feel like a tradition. However, I’m back with some good news i fixed it. This time, I tracked down and fixed cr

Feb 03, 2025
fix for test branch

fix for test branch

Sep 05, 2024
1.2.14

Hello everyone I haven't been here for a long time and during my absence you have accumulated a lot of questions and error messages, sorry for leaving them unanswered, but I have good news, I fixed th

May 26, 2023
1.2.13?

Hello! For those who did not know, I work as a chef and due to work I have very little free time for my projects, so the release of updates is constantly delayed, however, I read all your feedback and

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Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-28.

GenresCasual, Indie, RPG, Simulation, Strategy, Free To Play, Early Access
Player tagsIndie · Survival · Strategy · Tactical RPG · Post-apocalyptic · Zombies · Replay Value · Base-Building · Character Customization · Resource Management · Free to Play · Satire (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Captions available · Stats · Steam Leaderboards · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish, Russian * , French, German, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Japanese *
Achievements32
Official sitehttps://www.badwolfgames.info/
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 or higher 32 bits Processor: 2GHz Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: GTX 660 DirectX: Version 9.0 Storage: 8 GB available space Sound Card: DirectX® 9.0 compatible card