Still Wakes the Deep
Give it 3 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (46%); after 5h it's 1 in 12 (9%).
- Fully opens up by hour 4.
- 55% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “The Sickening of the Calm” (Survived the Event) and “Breathe In, Breathe Out, Repeat” (Escaped from Engineering): from 94% to 85% of starters.
- 90% 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 13,616 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 300 reviews: 5.5h for positive, 4.3h 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 (90.5% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- All Beans and Forgiveness Made it down to the Canteen and talked with Roy 100%
- The Sickening of the Calm Survived the Event 95% −5
- Breathe In, Breathe Out, Repeat Escaped from Engineering Most players quit here 85% −9
- Home by Christmas Launched the Lifeboat 80% −5
- Eye of the Needle Got back to Roy in the Canteen 76% −4
- Everything Breaks Watched the Helicopter Crash 72% −4
- I Am The King Escaped from Rennick 69% −3
- Compression Ignition Restarted the Generator 64% −5
- Into the Belly of the Beast Completed Engineering 62% −2
- Surfacing Escaped from the Pontoons 59% −3
- Beacon in the Dark Relit the Flare 58% −1
- Treading Water Escaped from Flooded Engineering 56% −1
- Beaufort Eleven Made it to the roof of Accommodation 56%
- Leviathan Rebalanced the Beira D 56%
- The Drowning of Davey Rennick Defeated Rennick 55%
- The Horror Sings Entered the Derrick 55%
- Still Wakes The Deep Completed the game 55%
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (59)
story milestone ending side
- All Beans and Forgiveness Made it down to the Canteen and talked with Roy 100%
- The Sickening of the Calm Survived the Event 95%
- Breathe In, Breathe Out, Repeat Escaped from Engineering 85%
- Home by Christmas Launched the Lifeboat 80%
- Fahrenheit 0451 Put out a fire with an extinguisher 80%
- Eye of the Needle Got back to Roy in the Canteen 76%
- Everything Breaks Watched the Helicopter Crash 72%
- I Am The King Escaped from Rennick 69%
- Compression Ignition Restarted the Generator 64%
- Into the Belly of the Beast Completed Engineering 62%
- Surfacing Escaped from the Pontoons 59%
- Beacon in the Dark Relit the Flare 58%
- Treading Water Escaped from Flooded Engineering 56%
- Beaufort Eleven Made it to the roof of Accommodation 56%
- Leviathan Rebalanced the Beira D 56%
- The Drowning of Davey Rennick Defeated Rennick 55%
- The Horror Sings Entered the Derrick 55%
- Still Wakes The Deep Completed the game 55%
- Cerebral Anoxia Drowned inside the rig 44%
- Social Butterfly Talk to everyone in the Intro 44%
- Walking Simulator Completed the game without sprinting for more than 10 total minutes 36%
- Snoop Visit every enterable cabin in the game 35%
- General Strike Hit a monster with a throwable 35%
- Greased Scotsman Sprint in all movement modes and traversals 19%
- Leaning Into It Spot a monster while leaning 17%
- Cor! Found your first set of human remains from the Beira D crew 14%
- Dordrecht Found your first Memento linked to the Beira D crew 14%
- Teine-sìth Follow the flickering flare down to the bottommost layer 13%
- Diving Lesson Find a very special room and remember a very special day 12%
- Thalassophobia Sink into the gaping bowels of the North Sea 12%
- Treaty of Perth "You've never seen water like that." Spend some time back at home 12%
- McLeery Spend too much time in the shower room 12%
- Gasping and Grasping Complete the game by finding what you sought... but then forcing your way back to the pain 11%
- Good with the 'Leccy Used all electrical interaction types on the Beira D 10%
- Here to Do a Job Find a significant number of Mementos left by the Beira D crew 9.9%
- A Clutch Permitted your current consciousness to join a greater whole 9.9%
- Christ, I Need a Smoke Finally found that lighter of hers 8.6%
- Lay Me Down to Sleep Found a significant amount of human remains from the Beira D crew 8.4%
- Me and My Spoon Find Roy's Spoon after the sinking 8.3%
- Won’t Wait Forever "You were just trying to do right by me." 7.8%
- Wrecked Someday, some other saturation diver may come and find your remains 6.6%
- Full Fathom Five Died from falling into the sea five times in different places 6.5%
- Icarus Forget your training and ascend too high, too fast 6.2%
- Jetsam Throw a throwable into the sea 5.4%
- Clear Down Listen to every optional phonecall 5.3%
- Sailing By Listen to the whole Shipping Forecast 4.8%
- Lost with All Hands Confirm for yourself that both escape routes failed the crew of the Beira D 4.5%
- Enshrouding Complete the game by sinking into the comforting embrace of what you sought all along 4.3%
- Body Count Find every reachable dead crew member 3.8%
- She Fetches at the Thrapple Run out of oxygen while off the umbilical 3.6%
- Look At All This Mess! Pick up and throw 50 different throwables 3.4%
- Sat Dive Certification Thoroughly explore the sea floor 2.5%
- Bheir an cuan a chuid fhèin a-mach Completed the game in Scottish Gaelic 2.4%
- Finlay Destination Die in all possible ways 2.3%
- Not so Good with the 'Leccy Die in all electrical hazards on the Beira D 2.3%
- Sat Dive Mastery Thoroughly explore the trench valley 1.8%
- Cenotaph Found all the human remains from the Beira D crew that you can 1.7%
- A Wreck Upturned Find all the Mementos you can of the lost Beira D crew 1.7%
- Moch ‘s mi ‘g èirigh Cuir crìoch air an sgeulachd le dùsgadh 1.4%