Laika: Aged Through Blood
Give it 10 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours almost 1 in 3 reviews are negative (30%); after 15h it's 1 in 35 (3%).
- Fully opens up by hour 15.
- 24% of players who start reach the ending.
- Most players drop off before “Hunger” (Kill A Hundred Hungry Beaks): only 75% of starters get there.
- 83% 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 6,849 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 297 reviews: 22h for positive, 4.5h 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 (82.7% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Hunger Kill A Hundred Hungry Beaks. Most players quit here 75% −25
- Loss Kill A Long Lost Woodcrawler. 62% −13
- Misery Kill A Caterpillar Made of Sadness. 44% −17
- Downfall Kill A Gargantuan Swimcrab. 34% −11
- Sacrilege Kill Pope Melva VIII. 30% −3
- Heresy Kill the Two-Beak God. 24% −6
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (42)
story milestone ending side
- Excursion Cover 50 km. 100%
- Hunger Kill A Hundred Hungry Beaks. 75%
- Killer Kill 100 enemies. 71%
- Journey Cover 200 km. 67%
- Loss Kill A Long Lost Woodcrawler. 62%
- Corpse Die 100 times. 56%
- Player Play blackjack for the first time. 51%
- Voyage Cover 500 km. 50%
- Psycopath Kill 500 enemies. 46%
- Misery Kill A Caterpillar Made of Sadness. 44%
- Pack Achieve a x6 combo. 44%
- Gambler Play blackjack 10 times. 38%
- Genocide Kill 1000 enemies. 36%
- Downfall Kill A Gargantuan Swimcrab. 34%
- Creation Remember when Puppy arrived. 33%
- Schooling Remember your first shot. 31%
- Cook Cook 10 times. 31%
- Sacrilege Kill Pope Melva VIII. 30%
- Demise Remember when Ava left. 27%
- Winner Earn 1000 viscera playing the blackjack. 26%
- Gun Upgrade the Revolver to the highest level. 25%
- Empire Take down all the memorial statues. 25%
- Carcass Die 500 times. 24%
- Heresy Kill the Two-Beak God. 24%
- Shot Upgrade the Shotgun to the highest level. 23%
- Vision Reveal the full map. 20%
- Ludopath Play blackjack 50 times. 19%
- Sound Find all the cassette tapes. 17%
- Arsenal Obtain all weapons. 16%
- Band Reunite the Wastelanders. 16%
- Armory Craft all the weapon holsters. 16%
- Gift Give Puppy all the treats. 14%
- Cookbook Discover all the recipes. 13%
- Flock Achieve a x12 combo. 13%
- Crosshair Upgrade the Sniper Rifle to the highest level. 13%
- Bowels Craft all the viscera sacks. 12%
- Cheff Cook 50 times. 12%
- Machine Upgrade the Machine Gun to the highest level. 11%
- Bolt Upgrade the Crossbow to the higest level. 11%
- Skeleton Die 1000 times. 10%
- Herd Achieve a x16 combo. 9.4%
- Rocket Upgrade the Rocket Launcher to the highest level. 8.9%