Dread Hunger
The first 3 hours are a test
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (62%); after 20h it's 1 in 3 (40%).
- Fully opens up by hour 4.
- The opening is criticised more than in 91% of games we track.
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- 73% 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 46,295 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 295 reviews: 435.6h for positive, 478.1h 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 (72.7% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
This game has no story achievements, so we can't tell where players quit.
All achievements (26)
story milestone ending side
- Feed The Machine Put coal in the boiler 100%
- For Her Majesty As an Explorer, win a game 89%
- Dark Shaman Build a totem 81%
- Mystery Stew Cook a stew 81%
- Tastes Like Chicken As an Explorer, win while 100% cannibal 79%
- First Mate Invite a friend aboard 78%
- Ironclad As an Explorer, win a game without hitting an iceberg 75%
- Hard Carry Craft a satchel 74%
- Survivalist Win a game without your heat or hunger ever fully depleting 66%
- You Are What You Eat Consume your own flesh 61%
- Giving It All She's Got Max the boiler fuel gauge 59%
- Promoted Complete the tutorial 55%
- Extra Spicy Poison the ingredients of the crew's stew 48%
- Is This Obvious? Build a totem on the ship 43%
- Go Fish Win 20 games of poker 42%
- Vegetarian As an Explorer, survive an entire match without eating any meat 35%
- Titanic As a Thrall, win by sinking the ship 30%
- Passive Aggressive As a Thrall, win without either Thrall causing direct damage to another player 30%
- Helmsman Skipper the ship for 10 nautical miles 24%
- Bear Hands Kill a polar bear with your bare fists 22%
- Going Home As a Thrall, win by sailing the wrong way 19%
- "Good" Guy With a Gun As a Thrall, claim a musket 13%
- Handle With Care As a Thrall, use the nitro to explode 3 Explorers at once 8.5%
- Perfectionist Get an S rating with every character 8.3%
- Sticks and Bones Destroy all the totems in the tutorial 5.4%
- Seasoned Sailor Win every map as every character 1.5%