SCP: The Foundation

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 383 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 1 reviews: 0.5h for positive, nullh 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 (85.2% 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 (30)

• Fresh Meat Start your very first game. Aww, if only you knew what you've got yourself into. 100%
• Peanut Allergy Have your first encounter with SCP-173. Apologies in advance. 65%
• You Don't Got A Friend In Me Witness one of your D-Class friends get killed. 57%
• Didn't Stand A Chance Get yourself killed in the intro. It's surprisingly easy actually. 56%
• All My Worldly Possessions Find and search your personal storage unit in your cell. You probably won't find much. 55%
• Back At It Again Die twice. Shouldn't be too hard for someone like you, right? 51%
• Fuck This Shit I'm Out Start a new game and leave before the prison guard reaches you. 39%
• Avid Explorer Walk through 20 different rooms without quitting or dying. 37%
• Radical Larry's Not So Rad Have your first encounter with SCP-106. May he have mercy on you. 30%
• And Now You're Dead Die for the first time. Don't let it be the last either. 27%
• The Right Answers Answer Dr. Gears correctly and complete the intro on the first try. 18%
• Lost Already Go exploring before attending the recruitment assembly. You might find something useful. 10%
• Welcome To My World Get SCP-106 to pull you into his pocket dimension. 10%
• The Man Who Could Sit Anywhere Sit in 10 different seats during the recruitment assembly. 7.6%
• Agrophobic Stay in the same room for 5 minutes straight. 6.5%
• Outlasted Survive a chase from SCP-106. 6.1%
• Cloning Machine Broke Die 10 times. I'd be lying if I said I didn't think you were capable of it. 4.9%
• Refined To Perfection Find SCP-914 and upgrade one of your items with it. 4.1%
• Looking For Trouble Get killed by a guard before attending the recuitment assembly. 4.0%
• Born To Die Get killed without leaving the assembly hall following a containment breach. 2.7%
• Seen It All Walk through 100 different rooms without quitting or dying. 2.7%
• Fearless Descend 100 flights of SCP-087 alive. 2.5%
• Freedom Escape the SCP facility and technically "beat" the game. You'll join the ranks of the elite D-Class. 2.5%
• Mirror Mirror On The Wall Find your way into a strange new land through a magic mirror. 2.5%
• I Shouldn't Be Alive Survive a whole hour straight without quitting or dying. 2.3%
• Speedrunner Escape the facility in 30 minutes or less from a new game. Good luck, you're gonna need it. 2.3%
• Still A Part Of Me Escape from the pocket dimension and live to tell the tale. 2.3%
• The Cleansing Encounter one of the so called "unclean" inside SCP-093's dimension. 2.3%
• Try Try Again Die 100 times. If nothing else, you'll have my utmost respect. 2.3%
• Safety Escort Reach an exit with at least 1 of your party members alive. 2.2%