DOOM + DOOM II
Hooks you almost right away
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 14 reviews are negative (7%); after 4h it's 1 in 55 (2%).
- Fully opens up by hour 3.
- The opening is criticised less than in 94% of games we track.
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- Only 38% 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 29,550 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 9.2h for positive, 7.7h 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 (37.5% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
This game has no story achievements, so we can't tell where players quit.
All achievements (33)
story milestone ending side
- Not So Friendly Fire Cause an enemy to kill another enemy. 100%
- An Important Looking Door Find a secret area. 92%
- Doormat Crush a corpse in a door. 82%
- Groovy Get 3 multi-kills with the Shotgun. 81%
- Timing Is Everything Kill 2 enemies with a single barrel explosion. 78%
- Clean Slate Kill all monsters in any monster-filled level on 'Hurt me plenty' or higher. 74%
- Hoarder Finish a level with 100% items picked up. 47%
- Burning Out of Control Complete any monster-filled level with 100% kills, items, and secrets. 33%
- Overkill Kill only a single enemy with a BFG9000 blast. 28%
- Overprepared Finish a level with 200% armor and 200% health. 28%
- The Only Thing They Fear Is You Complete any monster-filled level with 100% kills without taking any damage on Ultra-Violence or higher. 24%
- Bowling for Gibs Gib three or more enemies with a single rocket explosion. 24%
- Alternate Dimension Find a secret level. 24%
- Cookin' With Plasma Kill 5 enemies in 5 seconds with the Plasma Rifle. 24%
- Skeet Shooting Kill 4 enemies in 1 shot with the Super Shotgun. 22%
- Heavenly Joy Shoot 200 bullets consecutively with the Chaingun. 20%
- More Like a Dream Complete a level on Nightmare difficulty. 16%
- A Man and a Half Get 20 kills using the berserk powerup in a single level. 15%
- Guns Are For Wusses Get 25 kills with your Fists in a single level. 14%
- Until It Is Done Get 100 Chainsaw kills. 13%
- DOOM Reach the end of 'DOOM'. 13%
- DOOM II Reach the end of 'DOOM II'. 12%
- Shoot It Until It Dies Finish off a Cyberdemon with the Pistol. 9.9%
- Master Levels Reach the end of 'Master Levels for DOOM II'. 7.2%
- No Rest for the Living Reach the end of 'No Rest for the Living'. 6.9%
- Evilution Reach the end of 'TNT: Evilution'. 6.4%
- Sigil Reach the end of 'Sigil'. 6.4%
- Legacy of Rust Reach the end of 'Legacy of Rust'. 6.1%
- Plutonia Reach the end of 'The Plutonia Experiment'. 5.9%
- Indiscriminate Headhunter Kill one of every enemy. 5.9%
- Screen Wipe Obliterate 50 enemies with a single shot of the Calamity Blade. 5.6%
- Untouchable Complete 8 different levels sequentially under par time without dying on Ultra-Violence or higher. 5.3%
- Kill It With Fire Immolate a total of 30 arachnoid enemies with the Incinerator. 5.1%