Never Return

When it gets good

Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.

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Based on all 1,652 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 298 reviews: 8.6h for positive, 4.7h 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 (85.7% 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 (44)

• Fisrt Blood Kill the first target 100%
• Killing Machine 100 monsters killed 82%
• Tonnage output Deals 10,000 damage 78%
• Fall into the abyss First death in the dungeon 74%
• The Way of the Swordsman Deals 100,000 points of physical damage 49%
• Perfectionism Change the look of your character one time 43%
• Dressing of wounds Restores 100,000 life points 40%
• Props Master Use of items 100 times 37%
• Abyssal Invasion Deep into the dungeon to reach the 20th floor 36%
• Metal quenching Defeat Enchanted Dwarf 35%
• Demon Slayer Defeat Chaos Orc 35%
• Soul Sacrifice Consumes 50,000 soul crystals 34%
• Soul Plunder Get 50,000 soul crystals 34%
• Master Magician Deals 100,000 points of spell damage 34%
• Holy Water Marauder Defeat Ruin Witch 33%
• Vessel Destroyer Defeat Steel Vessel 32%
• Martial power to convince Defeat Orc Blademaster 32%
• Icebreaker Defeat Lord of Frost 31%
• The Mystery of the Phantom Defeat Necrolich 31%
• Pop-up killer Defeat Medusa 31%
• Lord Killer Defeat Deathlord 30%
• Survivor of the Fire Defeat Bloody Butcher 30%
• King of Gladiators Defeat Bloody Incubus 30%
• Skill Mastery Use of weapon skills 500 times 27%
• Skeleton Slayer Kill 500 skeletons 20%
• Firework display Deals 100,000 points of blast damage 19%
• Treasure hunter Open 200 treasure chests 17%
• There is safety in numbers Play a two-player game 17%
• Hammer Blast Deals 100,000 points of impact damage 17%
• Heavy hammer blow Knock out 1000 enemies 16%
• Electroconvulsive therapy Electrocutes 1000 enemies 16%
• Arsonist Set 1000 enemies on fire 16%
• Piercing armour Deals 100,000 points of piercing damage 16%
• Extreme Deep Freeze Freeze 1000 enemies 9.0%
• Jar Destroyer Smash the jar 500 times 7.0%
• Devoured by the Abyss Died 50 times while deep in the dungeon 4.6%
• Sacrifice Sacrifice 100 times 3.9%
• Descent into the Abyss Restart the game 50 times 3.6%
• The Master of Juggling Morph 1000 enemies 2.5%
• Bomb Killer Dropping 1000 bombs 1.9%
• Perfect Block Perfect blocking 100 times 1.5%
• willing help others Complete 10 tasks 0.8%
• Bloody Plunder Kill 50 NPCs 0.5%
• The Master of Stoner Use of healing potions 500 times 0.4%