When does The Quarry get good?

Give it 7 hours. In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (47%); after 10h it's 1 in 9 (12%). Fully opens up by hour 10.

How many players finish The Quarry?

22% of players who start reach the ending.

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Adventure

The Quarry

Jun 9, 2022 Steam: Very Positive

Give it 7 hours

Gets good by 7h then rated almost like by veterans

Fully opens up by 10h rated like by long-time players

Reach the ending 22% of players who started

Started playing 81% of owners

Steam reviews 82% positive of 25,613

What the data shows

In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (47%); after 10h it's 1 in 9 (12%).
Fully opens up by hour 10.
22% of players who start reach the ending.
The biggest drop-off is between “Chapter 10” and “Epilogue”: from 50% to 22% of starters.
81% 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 25,807 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 294 reviews: 10.5h for positive, 8.8h 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 (80.6% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.

Started playing 100%
Prologue Completed the Prologue 92% −8
Chapter 1 Completed Chapter 1 75% −16
Chapter 2 Completed Chapter 2 68% −8
Chapter 3 Completed Chapter 3 65% −3
Chapter 4 Completed Chapter 4 62% −2
Chapter 5 Completed Chapter 5 60% −2
Chapter 6 Completed Chapter 6 58% −2
Chapter 7 Completed Chapter 7 55% −3
Chapter 8 Completed Chapter 8 53% −2
Chapter 9 Completed Chapter 9 51% −2
Chapter 10 Completed Chapter 10 50% −1
Epilogue Witnessed the Epilogue Most players quit here 22% −28

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

What's This? Collected first clue 100%
Prologue Completed the Prologue 92%
Forewarned is Forearmed Got a Tarot reading 77%
The Truth is Out There Collected first piece of evidence 77%
Chapter 1 Completed Chapter 1 75%
It's All Coming Together Found a matching clue 72%
Chapter 2 Completed Chapter 2 68%
Chapter 3 Completed Chapter 3 65%
Chapter 4 Completed Chapter 4 62%
Chapter 5 Completed Chapter 5 60%
Chapter 6 Completed Chapter 6 58%
Chapter 7 Completed Chapter 7 55%
Chapter 8 Completed Chapter 8 53%
Chapter 9 Completed Chapter 9 51%
Phlebotomy Accepted the bite of a werewolf 51%
Chapter 10 Completed Chapter 10 50%
Reactionist Activated 15 Interrupts 49%
Just a Flesh Wound Saved a friend from infection 46%
Above the Law Travis and Laura agreed to work together 41%
Bizzare Yet Bonafide Listened to the podcast 39%
You're Breathtaking! Passed 5 Don't Breathe events 39%
The White Wolf Killed Silas 36%
Nick of Time Successfully took the fastest route to Nick 26%
Epilogue Witnessed the Epilogue 22%
Creature Feature Started a movie mode playthrough 19%
Lovers' Quarrel Nick killed Abi 15%
Rough Night Kept everyone alive 12%
Mutually Assured Laura and Travis killed each other 11%
Meddling Kids! Collected all clues 6.7%
Conspiracy Theorist Collected all evidence 5.6%
Family Matters Killed all the Hacketts 5.3%
Nobody's Fool Jacob told Emma the truth 4.1%
Decked Out Found all Tarot cards 2.5%
Should've Gone to the Motel Reunited Laura and Max 2.5%
Peanut Butter Butterpops! Never missed in a combat encounter 2.2%
Hard Pass Refused Eliza's help 2.1%
Hackett's Quarry Massacre Killed everyone 2.0%
Blood Pact Infected every character 1.9%
The Final Girl Kaitlyn survived the night alone 1.7%
Last Man Standing Ryan survived alone 1.7%

Steam page Updated: 2026-10-18.