The Anacrusis

When it gets good

Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.

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Based on all 1,923 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 288 reviews: 3.5h for positive, 1.5h 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 (33% 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 (55)

• That’s a False Barry! That is not Barry. 100%
• You Forgot Barry! No one picked up Barry in the Terminal. 90%
• Thank You For Playing! Start the game for the first time. 40%
• Rejected Kill a Spawner before it spawns any turrets 21%
• You Probably Think This Achievement is About You Complete an episode without any player going down. 21%
• Barry Will Remember This. You left Barry behind. 19%
• Skipped ‘em. Don’t Care Finish an episode without collecting any perks. 19%
• Barry Nice to Meet You Barry met the survivors. 18%
• We've Only Just Begun Complete Episode 1. 16%
• You Really Got Me Join a friend's game using a party code. 12%
• Baby Come Back Respawn an ally in a co-op game. 11%
• An EmBarrassing Interlude Barry dealt with a biological necessity. 9.7%
• You Can't Always Get What You Want Complete Episode 2. 9.4%
• Partying with Barry Barry went dancing in the disco. 7.9%
• Get Up Offa That Thing Use Pulse to interrupt a Grabber grab 10 times. 7.6%
• Message in a Bottle Complete Episode 3. 7.3%
• Take It Easy Slow down a Brute with your Stasis grenade. 7.3%
• You Suck! Suck 80 common aliens into Vortex grenades. 7.0%
• The Un-Barryable Lightness of Being Barry rode in the elevator at the end of the Mall. 6.7%
• Reunited, Part 1 Unlock the shortcut to bypass The Faire in the Mall. 6.4%
• A Barry Nice Afternoon Barry took a stroll through the Park. 6.1%
• My Dinner with Barry Barry grabbed sushi in the Mall. 6.1%
• Sole-Searching With Barry Barry went to a store that sells products he definitely doesn't need. 6.1%
• Born to be Wild Complete Episode 4. 6.1%
• The Unabridged Diction-Barry Look, we know it doesn't work, but it has both bridge and Barry in it. You get this one by taking Barry to the Bridge and standing on the helm, okay? 5.8%
• My Way Complete Episode 5 5.5%
• Make Barry Even Barry-er It turns out, Barry can pass through barryie… force fields. 5.2%
• Get Back Knock 500 common back using your pulse. 5.2%
• A Taste of Sanctioned Griefing Play a Versus Game. 5.2%
• The Barry Best Ending Barry successfully completed Episode 1. 4.8%
• Meet Mister Brute Play a Holdout Game. 4.8%
• Burn Barry Burn Barry sacrificed himself in the fiery pits of Crew Quarters. 4.5%
• Cat-er-Barry Tails Barry expressed his love of cats. 3.9%
• Barry, We Hardly Knew Ya Barry sacrificed himself in the Elevator shaft in Crew Quarters. 3.9%
• A Little Help Here? Shoot Goo off of a teammate 10 times. 3.9%
• It’s Raining Men Kill 100 specials aliens across all game types. 3.6%
• The Full Barry Barry completed all of his achievements. 3.3%
• You've Got a Friend Help downed allies up 10 times. 3.3%
• Everyday People Play a game with a Community Item equipped. 3.3%
• That’s a Two-Fer Knock down two Survivors in one Brute life in Versus mode. 2.7%
• A Good Week Complete a Weekly Challenge. 2.4%
• Reunited, Part 2 Unlock one of the shortcuts between levels in the Medbay. 2.4%
• Power to the People Play a game on a Community Map. 2.4%
• Wish You Were Here With three teammates out of the game, bring them all back with one press of the button. 1.8%
• The Kids Are Alright In Versus, create 20 Spawner turrets in one lifetime. 1.8%
• The Most Dangerous Game Get all four players to the airlock at the end of a level in Versus Mode. 1.8%
• Master of Sanctioned Griefing Win a Versus Game. 1.8%
• The New Mister Brute Win a Holdout Game. 1.5%
• This Cat Can Dance Dance on Boris' head in the Park. 1.5%
• Stayin' Alive Heal allies using the Health Scanner 20 times. 1.5%
• With a Little Help From My Friends In Versus, gather 200 common in one life as a Flasher. 1.5%
• Light My Fire Become a fiery Gooper in Versus mode. 1.5%
• A Good Month Complete 4 Weekly Challenges. 1.2%
• Born to Run Complete Episode 1 on Intenser Solo, activating all the Matter Compilers in the episode. 1.2%
• Are We Still Doing This? Kill 53,601 common aliens. 1.2%