ActionAdventure
Far Cry 3
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
Started playing 20% of owners
Steam reviews 88% positive of 135,221
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours almost 1 in 2 reviews are negative (42%); after 15h it's 1 in 14 (7%).
- Fully opens up by hour 15.
- The biggest drop-off is between “First Blood” and “Worst Date Ever” (Escape the burning hotel): from 100% to 64% of starters.
- Only 20% of owners have even the first achievement — the rest barely played.
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 135,690 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 295 reviews: 18.2h for positive, 8.4h 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 (20.4% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- First Blood Escape the pirates and survive in the wilderness. 100%
- Worst Date Ever Escape the burning hotel. Most players quit here 64% −36
- One of Us Complete the Rakyat initiation. 60% −4
- Hands Off My Stoner Rescue your friend before he is sold as a slave. 52% −8
- Retake Wall Street Rescue your friend from torture. 47% −4
- Taken for Granted Survive Vaas’s attack in the compound. 45% −2
- Higher Than a Kite Reach the South Island alive. 44% −1
- What a Trip Attend the final ceremony. 36% −8
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (44)
story milestone ending side
- First Blood Escape the pirates and survive in the wilderness. 100%
- Hunter Hunted Lure and kill a predator. 80%
- Magic Mushroom Return to the doctor with the cave mushrooms. 76%
- Inked Up Earn 5 skill tattoos. 72%
- Unheard Liberate an outpost without triggering an alarm. 68%
- Artsy Craftsy Craft 5 upgrades for your equipment. 68%
- Jungle Journal Unlock 50 entries in the Survival Guide. 65%
- Rebel With a Cause Liberate 3 outposts. 64%
- In Cold Blood Complete a WANTED Dead quest. 64%
- Worst Date Ever Escape the burning hotel. 64%
- Bagged and Tagged Complete a Path of the Hunter quest. 61%
- One of Us Complete the Rakyat initiation. 60%
- Island Paparazzi Tag 25 enemies using the camera (Single Player only). 58%
- Road Trip Complete a Supply Drop quest. 56%
- Money to Burn Spend $5000 at the shop. 55%
- Hands Off My Stoner Rescue your friend before he is sold as a slave. 52%
- Full Bars Activate 9 radio towers. 51%
- Retake Wall Street Rescue your friend from torture. 47%
- Have I Told You? Discover the definition of insanity. 46%
- Taken for Granted Survive Vaas’s attack in the compound. 45%
- Higher Than a Kite Reach the South Island alive. 44%
- Poacher Hunt and skin a rare animal. 43%
- Let the Trials Begin Beat any Trials of the Rakyat score. 41%
- Needle Exchange Craft 25 syringes. 40%
- Deep Cover Don’t blow cover during the interrogation. 39%
- Poker Night Win the poker game. 37%
- Love the Boom Kill 4 enemies simultaneously with one explosion (Single Player only). 36%
- What a Trip Attend the final ceremony. 36%
- Island Liberator Liberate all outposts. 26%
- Never Saw it Coming Kill an enemy with a takedown from above from a glider, zipline or parachute (Single Player only). 25%
- Fully Inked Earn every tattoo by learning all the skills. 18%
- Memory to Spare Gather all the memory cards. 17%
- Fearless or Stupid Dive more than 60m (Single Player only). 17%
- Aftermarket Junkie Buy all attachments and paint jobs for one weapon. 16%
- Poker Bully Win $1500 playing poker. 16%
- Free Fall Freefall more than 100m and live (Single Player only). 15%
- Toxophilite Kill a target from 70m or more with the bow (Single Player only). 15%
- Improper Use Kill an enemy with the Repair Tool (Single Player only). 13%
- Archeology 101 Gather a total of 60 relics. 13%
- The Good Stuff Craft a Special syringe. 12%
- Rock Always Wins Fully distract 25 enemies with rocks (Single Player only). 12%
- Dead Letters Gather all "Letters of the Lost". 11%
- Say Hi to the Internet Find the lost Hollywood star. 11%
- Heartless Pyro Kill 50 enemies with the flamethrower (Single Player only). 9.8%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-22.