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Zardy's Maze
Hooks you almost right away
Gets good by 3h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Started playing 62% of owners
Steam reviews 91% positive of 1,603
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 9 reviews are negative (12%); after 3h it's 1 in 40 (2%).
- The opening is criticised less than in 88% of games we track.
- Only 62% of owners have even the first achievement — the rest barely played.
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 1,623 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 300 reviews: 2.1h for positive, 0.7h 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 (62.3% 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 (25)
- Pumpkin Smasher Defeat a Pumpkin Crawler 100%
- Deer In The Headlights Banish Zardy 3 times with a flashlight 60%
- Corn Husker Defeat a Cornstalker 54%
- Ding Dong Ditch Exit the maze after destroying a giant weed 43%
- Near Miss Narrowly avoid Cablecrow while he is grappling 40%
- Hide And Seek Use the corn to escape Pumpkin Jack 38%
- Jack Be Nimble Jump over 3 different Pumpkin Crawler traps in the same maze 19%
- Bulltrue Survive 3 attacks from Rattler 8.7%
- Beneath the Bramble Discover the secret at the center of the maze 7.5%
- Go The Distance Complete Challenge 1: Go The Distance 6.7%
- The Rattler Complete Challenge 2: The Rattler 5.9%
- Agoraphobic Complete the main game without leaving the maze after first entering it 5.6%
- Lorefinder Discover a secret 4.5%
- Double Trouble Complete Challenge 3: Double Trouble 3.7%
- Snickering In The Dark Complete Challenge 4: Snickering In The Dark 3.5%
- Foolhardy Destroy a giant weed and exit the maze during a custom challenge with all settings on max and no custom seed set 3.4%
- Cable Chaos Complete Challenge 5: Cable Chaos 3.2%
- Trespassing I don’t believe this corn is yours...? 3.0%
- Needle In A Haystack Complete Challenge 6: Needle In A Haystack 2.9%
- Pay Your Respects You’ve found a strange graveyard, haven’t you? 2.9%
- Forest Pumpkins: Beware of Them! You thought there would be secret treasure? Ha! 2.7%
- The Pumpkin Army Complete Challenge 7: The Pumpkin Army 2.6%
- Bushwhack Complete Challenge 9: Bushwhack 1.8%
- Daytime Complete Challenge 8: Daytime 1.8%
- Survivor Survive until night in Challenge 10: Endless 1.6%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-20.