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Ghostbusters: The Video Game Remastered
Give it 3 hours
Gets good by 3h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 5h rated like by long-time players
Reach the ending 21% of players who started
Started playing 86% of owners
Steam reviews 90% positive of 2,649
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours almost 1 in 3 reviews are negative (30%); after 7h it's 1 in 19 (5%).
- Fully opens up by hour 5.
- 21% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “We Have the Talent!” (Complete the Firehouse training level) and “The Flowers are Still Standing!”: from 92% to 64% of starters.
- 86% 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 2,672 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 295 reviews: 7.8h for positive, 4.8h 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 (85.8% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- We Have the Talent! Complete the Firehouse training level. 92% −8
- The Flowers are Still Standing! Complete the 'Welcome to the Hotel Sedgewick' level. Most players quit here 64% −28
- Once S'more into the Breach Complete the 'Panic in Times Square' level. 47% −17
- Get Her! Complete the 'Checking Out the Library' level. 34% −12
- Ghost Fever Grips New York Complete the 'Museum of (Super)Natural History' level. 29% −5
- Somebody Saw a Cockroach on 12 Complete the 'Return to the Sedgewick' level. 27% −2
- Let Me Guess, Gozer Worshippers Complete the 'Lost Island Rising' level. 25% −2
- Disaster of Biblical Proportions Complete the 'Central Park Cemetery' level. 21% −3
- We Came, We Saw... Complete the game on 'Casual' or 'Experienced' difficulty. 21%
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (40)
story milestone ending side
- I Ain't 'Fraid of No Ghost! Trap a ghost. 100%
- We Have the Talent! Complete the Firehouse training level. 92%
- ...And You Want to Keep It? Collect a Cursed Artifact. 85%
- I'm Picking Up A Signal... Obtain a 100% PKE scan on a paranormal creature. 83%
- You Gotta Try This Pole! Slide down the fire pole. 82%
- Aim for the Flat Top! Eliminate a creature. 79%
- Total Protonic Reversal Knock yourself down with your own weapon. 77%
- I Feel So Funky Get slimed by a charging ghost. 70%
- The Flowers are Still Standing! Complete the 'Welcome to the Hotel Sedgewick' level. 64%
- Once S'more into the Breach Complete the 'Panic in Times Square' level. 47%
- Get Her! Complete the 'Checking Out the Library' level. 34%
- Ghost Fever Grips New York Complete the 'Museum of (Super)Natural History' level. 29%
- Slam Dunk! Slam dunk a ghost into a trap. 29%
- Heat 'Em Up Purchase all upgrades for the Proton Gun. 29%
- I Looked at the Trap, Ray! Recover 20 of your own full ghost traps. 27%
- Somebody Saw a Cockroach on 12 Complete the 'Return to the Sedgewick' level. 27%
- Mother Pus Bucket! Purchase all upgrades for the Slime Gun. 26%
- We be fast! They be slow! Purchase all upgrades for the Dark Matter Generator. 26%
- I'm a Ghostbuster, Not a Doctor! Revive your teammates 20 times. 25%
- Let Me Guess, Gozer Worshippers Complete the 'Lost Island Rising' level. 25%
- I Don't Want My Face Burned Off Purchase all upgrades for the Meson Collider. 24%
- We Have the Tools! Purchase all available equipment upgrades. 22%
- Disaster of Biblical Proportions Complete the 'Central Park Cemetery' level. 21%
- We Came, We Saw... Complete the game on 'Casual' or 'Experienced' difficulty. 21%
- But the Kids Love Us! The children's reading room has a story to tell, but it will take more than your eyes to see it. 14%
- I've Quit Better Jobs Than This. Some ghosts had a real blowout in the Coat Room. Clean it up? 8.7%
- Hedgebuster The hedge maze is a real eyesore; do some Protonic pruning. 8.0%
- Slime Dunk! Trap a ghost using the Slime Tether. 7.7%
- One down, on the Ground! Airborne coffins are an affront to gravity; use your Proton Pack to avenge Mother Nature! 7.3%
- Kosher! Remedy a dubious food choice to make the bar mitzvah as orthodox as it can be. 7.0%
- Stasis Dunk! Trap a ghost using the Stasis Stream. 6.2%
- I Love You When You Rough-House! The tidy arcitectural office could use some Proton-based humbling. 5.6%
- You Never Studied Keep your ears open to learn everything you can about the Civil War. 5.6%
- Are You A God? Complete the game on 'Professional' difficulty. 5.4%
- Back Off Man. I'm a Scientist Obtain 100% PKE scans for every paranormal creature. 4.8%
- Spores, Molds, and Fungus Collect all Cursed Artifacts. 4.7%
- It's Slime Time Use the Slime Tether on 15 ghosts. 4.7%
- Ghostbusters Drinking Game Quench your thirst wherever possible to avoid being scared spitless. 4.0%
- The Destructor Complete the the game with more than $3,000,000 in property damage. 3.7%
- Nice Shootin', Tex! Complete the the game with less than $100,000 in property damage. 3.1%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-19.