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Under The Waves
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
Started playing 72% of owners
Steam reviews 77% positive of 2,227
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours almost 1 in 2 reviews are negative (45%); after 10h it's 1 in 8 (13%).
- Fully opens up by hour 10.
- 72% 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 2,247 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 300 reviews: 10.4h for positive, 4.2h 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 (72.2% 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 (38)
- Day 01: Immersion Complete Stan's first day underwater 100%
- Day 02: Routine Complete Stan's second day underwater 65%
- Memory Of A Forgotten Life Find a collectible in a wreck 64%
- Surfrider: Cleaning The Ocean Pick up 25 pieces of plastic 53%
- Day 03: Adrift Complete Stan's third day underwater 49%
- Just A Scratch Use a repair kit on Moon 48%
- Emma's World Take a peek at the surface 48%
- Stan Ahab Learn more about a blue whale 42%
- Surfrider: Activist Pick up 50 pieces of plastic 42%
- Connection Lost Interact with the communication antenna 40%
- Day 14: The Storm Complete Stan's fourteenth day underwater 39%
- Surfrider: Leave No Trace Pick up 10 empty oxygen sticks 34%
- Day 15: Red Alert Complete Stan's fifteenth day underwater 33%
- Day 16: Collateral Damage Complete Stan's sixteenth day underwater 30%
- Telly Addict Watch all optional TV programs 28%
- Heave Ho, Me Hearties! Have Stan sing a sea shanty aboard Moon 28%
- Day 17: Save Our Souls Complete Stan's seventeenth day underwater 28%
- A Choice: A Last Goodbye Find closure 26%
- You're Gonna Need A Bigger Sub Break Moon beyond repair 18%
- Callisto's Song Play with the music box 17%
- Jobsworth Complete all routine missions 16%
- Wildlife Photographer Complete all photography missions 15%
- A Little Rusty Reach a score of 5000 on the guitar 15%
- Greasing the Wheels Clean 50 oil traces 14%
- Stan Balboa Reach a score of 2500 on the punching bag 13%
- A Can Of Worms Succumb to ????? 13%
- Sustainable Energy Upgrade Moon's engines to electric 12%
- Captain's Log Unlock 75 logbook entries 11%
- Homemaker Craft every decoration 9.7%
- A Choice: One Last Story... Find solace 9.1%
- Surfrider: Master Upcycler Craft every upgrade 8.9%
- Like The Wreck Of The Hesperus Find the galleon 8.6%
- The Little Merman Craft 25 oxygen sticks 8.0%
- Cthulhu Fhtagn Rescue a squid from a wreck 8.0%
- Surfrider: Building A Better World Find all crafting recipes 7.3%
- A Sticky Situation Unlock all stickers 6.6%
- Echoes Of The Past Find all collectibles 5.5%
- Under The Waves Unlock all achievements 4.3%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-20.