ActionAdventureIndie
Vertigo Remastered
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 91% of owners
Steam reviews 92% positive of 1,632
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 3 reviews are negative (37%); after 4h it's 1 in 40 (3%).
- Fully opens up by hour 3.
- 91% 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 1,659 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 298 reviews: 4.6h for positive, 1.9h 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 (91.1% 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 (32)
- Grave Robber Acquire the Spacetime Manipulator 100%
- Study the Blade Defeat the Centipod 70%
- Insecurity Escape Big Richard 57%
- I don't even have a gun yet! Get killed by the first boss 56%
- Frankly, Dispatch Frank the amorphous apex predator 47%
- Barbeque Burn to death 47%
- You Have Been In An Accident. Steal (and crash) a Planck dropship 43%
- Breathin' Easy Clear the gas out of the toxic maze 41%
- What's the Matter Compressor? Achieve a new perspective 41%
- Too Deep Enter VR in VR 39%
- The Sacrifice Defeat the Mudrunner Queen 39%
- ****ing Minigun Acquire a minigun 38%
- Concourse Complete the game 37%
- Prison Broke Free the restrained Handyman in the Exobiology Dept. 28%
- Fork Off Kill a forklift driver 23%
- Short Circuit Take the shortcut out of the containment zone 19%
- Hazy Maze Dazed Get lost in the toxic maze 19%
- A Well Deserved Rest Lie down in a bed 15%
- Friendly Frank Bring a friend to the surface with you 14%
- Runner Fully upgrade your locomotion 13%
- Gone Fishing Go... ...fishing 12%
- Persistent Take the wrong escalator 12%
- Gunner Fully upgrade your firepower 12%
- Beach Day Do a high dive 9.3%
- OP Fill out the entire upgrade tree 7.1%
- Counterculture Deface a statue 5.7%
- Tetrahedral Traveler Encounter Kauboi 5.0%
- Hot Potato Catch a grenade 4.5%
- Forcibly Blunt Kill an enemy by throwing something heavy at them 4.4%
- Prophecised Peacebringer Discover the Autonican prophecy 4.0%
- Masochist Beat the game without upgrades 3.2%
- Insatiable Find and collect every Quantum Juice cache 1.9%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-20.