IndieRPGSimulationStrategy
Sheltered 2
Give it 10 hours
Gets good by 10h then rated almost like by veterans
Fully opens up by 20h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 25% of owners
Steam reviews 45% positive of 2,226
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours most reviews are negative (74%); after 20h it's 1 in 2 (49%).
- Fully opens up by hour 20.
- The opening is criticised more than in 97% of games we track.
- Only 25% of owners have even the first achievement — the rest barely played.
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 2,236 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 298 reviews: 37.3h for positive, 9.4h 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 (25.4% 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 (23)
- One Stop Shop Build all crafting stations 100%
- Solid Foundations Complete 10 Faction Goals 63%
- Well Established Survive 100 Days 58%
- On The Road Fully construct a pickup truck 47%
- Horticultured Harvest 100 plants successfully 39%
- Perfect Specimen Max out the stats on a single character 30%
- Broken, beaten and scarred Have one person with 5 physical ailments 22%
- Fort Knox Amass a collection of 10 gold ingots 18%
- Dominator Defeat all factions 17%
- Only The Best Upgrade all initial upgradeable objects in the shelter 15%
- Sticks and Stones Win combat by throwing rocks only 13%
- Lifegiver Bring back 5 members from the brink of death 10%
- Onwards and Upwards Complete 20 Faction Goals 9.4%
- Water Is Life Amass 1,000 units of water 9.1%
- Circumnavigator Uncover the whole map 8.7%
- Home Alone Stop a breach using surface traps only 7.5%
- Peacemaker Ally with all factions 6.3%
- Telefixation Find and hand in all the VHS tapes 5.9%
- Aggressive Jailer Imprison 4 people at once 5.5%
- Man Vs Machine Survive 50 days against androids 2.4%
- Good Management Complete All Faction Goals 2.0%
- Scholar Collect all books 2.0%
- The Hunter Kill 50 Bears 2.0%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-19.