Indie
198X
Give it 2 hours
Gets good by 2h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 3h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 86% of owners
Steam reviews 76% positive of 2,162
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours almost 1 in 3 reviews are negative (29%); after 3h it's 1 in 11 (9%).
- Fully opens up by hour 3.
- 86% of owners got the first achievement.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 2,208 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 294 reviews: 1.9h for positive, 1.2h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.
Where players quit
Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (86.2% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
Story milestones aren't labeled yet; all achievements are listed below.
All achievements (14)
- Welcome to Suburbia Complete Beating Heart 100%
- Back to school Complete Out of the Void 68%
- I drove all night Complete The Runaway 64%
- Darklands Complete Shadowplay 49%
- Blackout Complete Kill Screen 46%
- Continue? Complete 198X 46%
- Overclocked Reach level MAX in Kill Screen 35%
- Thank you for playing Watch the end credits all the way through - thank you backers! 35%
- Mastermind Complete the Kill Screen maze using only super effective attacks 5.8%
- Hard drivin' Complete The Runaway without a single collision 5.2%
- Bare knuckle Complete Beating Heart without dying or using pick-ups 4.5%
- Kill 'em all Destroy every enemy in Out of the Void without losing a life 3.7%
- Playing with power Collect all power-ups in Shadowplay 3.6%
- Shadow dancer Complete Shadowplay without taking damage 3.5%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-19.