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Ghostrunner
Give it 3 hours
Gets good by 3h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 10h rated like by long-time players
Reach the ending 32% of players who started
Started playing 75% of owners
Steam reviews 91% positive of 67,074
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 4 reviews are negative (28%); after 10h it's 1 in 25 (4%).
- Fully opens up by hour 10.
- 32% of players who start reach the ending.
- Most players drop off before “Running Out Of Breath” (Save the residents of Sector Five): only 64% of starters get there.
- 75% 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 67,761 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 298 reviews: 9.3h for positive, 6.2h 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 (75.2% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Running Out Of Breath Save the residents of Sector Five Most players quit here 64% −36
- Out Of Order Decomission Tom 50% −14
- Back To Hell Defeat Hel 41% −9
- Artificial Selection Defeat the Keymaster 33% −7
- Finish Line Complete your climb up the Tower 32% −1
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (45)
story milestone ending side
- Longrunner Run 42 kilometers 100%
- Sword Runner Kill 5 enemies within 10 seconds using just your sword 70%
- Wallrunner Kill 74 enemies right after jumping off a wall 65%
- Running Out Of Breath Save the residents of Sector Five 64%
- Out Of Order Decomission Tom 50%
- I Call It Luck Block 5 projectiles in a row using your sword 46%
- Homerunner Kill an enemy with a projectile reflected by Tempest 45%
- Where Are My Keys Kill 1000 enemies 43%
- Back To Hell Defeat Hel 41%
- Perfection Unlock your full potential! 37%
- Sword To A Gunfight Kill 30 enemies with projectiles reflected using your sword (Reflect module required) 36%
- Artificial Selection Defeat the Keymaster 33%
- Finish Line Complete your climb up the Tower 32%
- Upgrades Not Mandatory Kill 10 enemies in a row without using Sensory Boost 32%
- Why Not Both Use 2 different special abilities within 10 seconds 30%
- Running Wild Use dash, wallrun, slide and gap jammer within 1 second 29%
- Control Freak Force enemies to kill 4 of their allies using Overlord 29%
- Wave Of Mutilation Kill 3 enemies with a single use of Surge 23%
- Unstoppable Force Kill 3 enemies with a single use of Tempest 23%
- Dead In The Air Kill 3 Sluggers using Blink, while they are in the air 20%
- Can't Run Can't Hide Kill 5 enemies with your special abilities, while they are protected by a Beacon Shield 17%
- Strike Kill 3 enemies at once with a falling Drone 15%
- R Is For Running Complete a level without dying 14%
- Preemptive Strike Kill a Splitter before it manages to split itself 13%
- Improvise Adapt Overrun Kill a sniper without getting near him 13%
- Triple A Kill 3 enemies with a single use of Blink 11%
- More Than Human Kill 23 enemies in a row without dying 11%
- One Of Those Days Stay Enraged for 20 seconds 8.5%
- Push It To The Limit Fill up GR-SCP so that there are no empty slots left 7.6%
- Fine Addition Complete your sword collection 6.1%
- Where He Stood Defeat Commander Bakunin 6.0%
- Scrapped Defeat the Golem 5.2%
- About Adam Collect all audiologs 4.8%
- Strafing Run Playing as Hel, kill 3 enemies with Surge during one jump 4.7%
- Just A Man Defeat Bakunin in less than 3 minutes 4.4%
- Hit Me If You Can Block Warden's attack 5 times in a row 4.1%
- Junkrunner Collect every single collectible item in the game 4.0%
- One Man's Trash Collect all story items 4.0%
- GR Project Complete Obtain all the other achievements 2.7%
- Obedient Machine Complete "No Other Choice" without killing any enemies (excluding Beacons) 2.5%
- Legacy Drivers Complete "My Friend" without using any upgrades 2.3%
- A Grade Complete "Another Awakening" without dying 2.1%
- Everyone Needs A Hobby Find all the collectibles on Hel levels 2.1%
- Sticks And Stones Fill up your Rage Bar just by deflecting projectiles (Deflect: Absorb upgrade required) 2.1%
- Up Close And Personal Complete "Down Below" without using Surge on the enemies 2.1%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-18.