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SILENT HILL 2
Give it 3 hours
Gets good by 3h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 15h rated like by long-time players
Reach the ending at least 28% of players who started
Started playing 92% of owners
Steam reviews 95% positive of 66,457
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 5 reviews are negative (21%); after 15h it's 1 in 30 (3%).
- Fully opens up by hour 15.
- At least 28% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “Enjoy Your Stay” (Reach Silent Hill) and “Nice and Cozy” (Reach Wood Side Apartments): from 100% to 81% of starters.
- 92% 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 66,862 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 298 reviews: 19.6h for positive, 11.9h 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 (92.1% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Enjoy Your Stay Reach Silent Hill. 100%
- Nice and Cozy Reach Wood Side Apartments. Most players quit here 81% −19
- Otherworldly Enter the Otherworld for the first time. 68% −14
- Passed Make your way out of Blue Creek Apartments. 63% −5
- Uncanny Meet Maria. 62%
- Admitted Reach Brookhaven Hospital. 60% −2
- Nightmare Fuel Defeat the Flesh Lip. 56% −4
- Alone Again Survive the chase in Brookhaven Hospital. 54% −2
- Unforgivable Defeat the Abstract Daddy. 49% −5
- Glimmer of Hope Reach the Lakeview Hotel. 47% −2
- Truly Special Reach Room 312. 46% −1
- Making Peace Reach the "Leave" ending. ≥28% −18
story milestone ending (most common ending) biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (43)
story milestone ending side
- Enjoy Your Stay Reach Silent Hill. 100%
- Nice and Cozy Reach Wood Side Apartments. 81%
- You Never Know... Try to open locked doors 50 times. 79%
- Otherworldly Enter the Otherworld for the first time. 68%
- Shattered Destroy 50 windows. 64%
- Passed Make your way out of Blue Creek Apartments. 63%
- Uncanny Meet Maria. 62%
- Blunt Force Trauma Kill 75 enemies with melee weapons. 62%
- Admitted Reach Brookhaven Hospital. 60%
- Nightmare Fuel Defeat the Flesh Lip. 56%
- Alone Again Survive the chase in Brookhaven Hospital. 54%
- Into the Abyss Reach the end of the long staircase. 52%
- Unforgivable Defeat the Abstract Daddy. 49%
- Inner Sanctum Find His room. 48%
- A Human Being Kill Eddie. 47%
- Glimmer of Hope Reach the Lakeview Hotel. 47%
- No Big Deal Kill 75 enemies with ranged weapons. 46%
- Truly Special Reach Room 312. 46%
- That Part of Me Defeat Her. 46%
- Obsolete Destroy what you don't need. 46%
- James of All Trades Kill at least one enemy with Wooden Plank, Steel Pipe, Handgun, Shotgun and Rifle in a single playthrough. 46%
- No Turning Back Now Try to leave Silent Hill in the Observation Deck area. 37%
- It's Bread Interact with bread. 35%
- Making Peace Reach the "Leave" ending. 28%
- Leftovers Find the pizza in Pete's Bowl-O-Rama. 28%
- Merciless Finish off 50 enemies with a stomp attack. 26%
- Only Way Out Reach the "In Water" ending. 21%
- Lumberjack Find the chainsaw. 18%
- All Seems in Order Discover the secret of Room 106. 15%
- Vicious Circle Reach the "Maria" ending. 10%
- Let's NOT Party! Shoot all the balloons in Wood Side Apartments. 9.9%
- Scourge of Toluca Lake Spend 10 minutes out on Toluca Lake. 8.3%
- I Saw That Town Complete New Game Plus on any difficulty. 7.2%
- Faster Than Fog Finish the game in under 10 hours. 6.7%
- Radio Silence Complete the game without using the radio. 5.6%
- As Close as You Like Finish the game without killing enemies using ranged weapons. 5.3%
- The Goodest Boi Reach the "Dog" ending. 5.2%
- Defy Even Death Reach the "Rebirth" ending. 5.0%
- Tinfoil Hat Reach the "UFO" ending. 4.8%
- Pieces Unarranged Collect all the Strange Photos in a single playthrough. 4.5%
- Archivist Collect all memos in a single playthrough. 4.3%
- Echoes Witness all glimpses of the past in a single playthrough. 4.3%
- Party Like It's 2001 See all classic endings (Leave, Maria, In Water, Rebirth, Dog). 4.0%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-18.