Once Human, a yellow and white renaming card.

How to Use the Renaming Card in Once Human

Chris McMullen

Published: Jul 11, 2024 08:10 am

Once Human lets you create your own character, and that includes giving them the most ridiculous name you can think of. But what if you want to change it? Here’s how to rename yourself using the Renaming Card in Once Human.

Here’s How to Use Once Human’s Renaming Card to Change Your Character’s Name

To use the renaming card in Once Human and rename yourself, you need to go to your profile in the top right-hand corner of the menu and choose edit name. But without a Renaming Card the accept button will be greyed out. So to use a Renaming Card, the first step is to actually get one.

The bad news is that you’re going to have to pay. It’s possible that Once Human will dole out free Renaming Cards at some point in the future, perhaps after you’ve been playing for a certain length of time. But there’s no indication that’s happening, which means you need to buy a Renaming Card.

So, to get a Renaming Card:

Go to the main menu
Select Shop Event
Select Shop
Select Other
Select Renaming Card
Purchase one for 300 Crystgin

Crystgin can’t currently be earned in-game, so if you don’t already have any Crystgin you’ll have to buy them, for €4.99 or the equivalent in your local currency.

Once you’ve got your Renaming Card, here’s how to use it:

Go to the main menu
Select the icon in the top right-hand corner
Select Edit Name
Enter your name in the box
Select Confirm

If you don’t have a Renaming Card, Confirm will be greyed out. You can type your name in but you’re not changing it without a Renaming Card. This will also use up your Renaming Card, meaning it’ll cost you €4.99 each time you rename your character.

Charging does make a kind of sense, since it prevents abusive players from just hiding, though I’d have hoped Starry Studio would have let players change their name for free at least once. And that’s how to use the Renaming Card in Once Human.

Once Human is available to play now.

Once Human

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Chris McMullen

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Chris McMullen is a freelance contributor at The Escapist and has been with the site since 2020. He returned to writing about games following several career changes, with his most recent stint lasting five-plus years. He hopes that, through his writing work, he settles the karmic debt he incurred by persuading his parents to buy a Mega CD. Outside of The Escapist, Chris covers news and more for GameSpew. He's also been published at such sites as VG247, Space, and more. His tastes run to horror, the post-apocalyptic, and beyond, though he'll tackle most things that aren't exclusively sports-based. At Escapist, he's covered such games as Infinite Craft, Lies of P, Starfield, and numerous other major titles.