KARMA: The Dark World
Give it 2 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 4 reviews are negative (25%); after 5h it's 1 in 13 (8%).
- Fully opens up by hour 5.
- 50% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “Nightcrawler” (Complete the Prologue) and “I Will Echo” (Find evidence of Sean's crime): from 95% to 79% of starters.
- 94% 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 4,659 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 298 reviews: 7.3h 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 (93.6% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Missions? What Missions? Finish calibration 100%
- Nightcrawler Complete the Prologue 95% −5
- I Will Echo Find evidence of Sean's crime Most players quit here 79% −16
- Déjà vu Escape from the strange space 75% −4
- BlueBottles! More BlueBottles! Complete the stamping task 65% −9
- Why's It Always Me? Learn about Sean's encounter 65% −1
- We Made a Deal Resist Sean's brain dive rejection 61% −4
- Sean Complete Act 1 60%
- Naughty Boy Escape the endless loop 56% −4
- It Wasn't Real Kill the Mother illusion 54% −2
- Freedom Burn Rachel's room 53% −1
- Love Finish Rachel's memory 53%
- Two Souls, One Body Witness Rachel's final moment 52% −1
- Rachel Complete Act 2 52%
- I Will Keep the Secret Safe Learn the truth 50% −2
- Little Lamb Finish the game 50%
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (24)
story milestone ending side
- Missions? What Missions? Finish calibration 100%
- Nightcrawler Complete the Prologue 95%
- I Will Echo Find evidence of Sean's crime 79%
- Déjà vu Escape from the strange space 75%
- Rule Follower Unlock the first Rule Follower 74%
- BlueBottles! More BlueBottles! Complete the stamping task 65%
- Why's It Always Me? Learn about Sean's encounter 65%
- We Made a Deal Resist Sean's brain dive rejection 61%
- Sean Complete Act 1 60%
- Naughty Boy Escape the endless loop 56%
- It Wasn't Real Kill the Mother illusion 54%
- Freedom Burn Rachel's room 53%
- Love Finish Rachel's memory 53%
- Two Souls, One Body Witness Rachel's final moment 52%
- Rachel Complete Act 2 52%
- I Will Keep the Secret Safe Learn the truth 50%
- Little Lamb Finish the game 50%
- LISA This is not end 47%
- War Is Peace Complete the telephone puzzle without any mistakes 22%
- Velveteen Receive a "stable" result in the psychological assessment 19%
- She's Not My Mother! Defeat Monster Mother without dying 14%
- Model Employee Complete the stamping task without any mistakes 10%
- Fetish for Collecting Find all memos 7.2%
- Leviathan Collector Unlock all Rule Followers 6.9%