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The Typing of The Dead: Overkill
Give it 2 hours
Gets good by 2h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 3h rated like by long-time players
Reach the ending 18% of players who started
Started playing 71% of owners
Steam reviews 88% positive of 4,133
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 4 reviews are negative (24%); after 3h it's 1 in 15 (7%).
- Fully opens up by hour 3.
- 18% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “Painful Punctuation” and “Lascivious Lexicon” (Complete 'Naked Terror' in Typing of the Dead): from 97% to 66% of starters.
- 71% 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 4,167 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 296 reviews: 4.1h for positive, 1.8h 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 (71% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Painful Punctuation Complete 'Papa's Palace of Pain' in Typing of the Dead 97% −3
- Lascivious Lexicon Complete 'Naked Terror' in Typing of the Dead Most players quit here 66% −31
- Critical Clause Complete 'Ballistic Trauma' in Typing of the Dead 48% −18
- Grotesque Grammar Complete 'Carny' in Typing of the Dead 37% −11
- Linguistic Butchery Complete 'Creeping Flesh' in Typing of the Dead 29% −7
- Transitive Travel Complete 'Scream Train' in Typing of the Dead 26% −4
- Quagmire Question Complete 'The Fetid Waters' in Typing of the Dead 22% −3
- Prison Novel Complete 'Jailhouse Judgement' in Typing of the Dead 20% −2
- Experimental Fiction Complete all levels in Typing of the Dead 18% −3
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (33)
story milestone ending side
- Gushing Words Achieve a Goregasm in Typing of the Dead 100%
- Painful Punctuation Complete 'Papa's Palace of Pain' in Typing of the Dead 97%
- Lascivious Lexicon Complete 'Naked Terror' in Typing of the Dead 66%
- Boom, Headshot! Decapitate 200 mutants in Typing of the Dead 59%
- Critical Clause Complete 'Ballistic Trauma' in Typing of the Dead 48%
- Knee Trembler Maintain a Goregasm for two minutes in Typing of the Dead 47%
- Grotesque Grammar Complete 'Carny' in Typing of the Dead 37%
- Easy Targets Kill 100 Fat mutants in Typing of the Dead 34%
- Linguistic Butchery Complete 'Creeping Flesh' in Typing of the Dead 29%
- Caesar's Salad Complete 'Papa's Palace of Pain' in House of the Dead 27%
- Transitive Travel Complete 'Scream Train' in Typing of the Dead 26%
- Quagmire Question Complete 'The Fetid Waters' in Typing of the Dead 22%
- Prison Novel Complete 'Jailhouse Judgement' in Typing of the Dead 20%
- Nifty Fingers Type a thirty character phrase without any errors 20%
- Experimental Fiction Complete all levels in Typing of the Dead 18%
- Private Dancer Complete 'Naked Terror' in House of the Dead 16%
- Sideshow Wizard Play all mini games in Typing of the Dead 16%
- Doctors and Nurses Complete 'Ballistic Trauma' in House of the Dead 13%
- Clown Shoes Complete 'Carny' in House of the Dead 11%
- Meat Packer Complete 'Creeping Flesh' in House of the Dead 10%
- Off the Rails Complete 'Scream Train' in House of the Dead 9.6%
- Swamp Monster Complete 'The Fetid Waters' in House of the Dead 8.9%
- Jail Bird Complete 'Jailhouse Judgement' in House of the Dead 8.5%
- Killing Over Complete all levels in House of the Dead 8.2%
- Toasty! Kill five or more mutants with one grenade 8.0%
- Type Hard Complete any Hardcore level in Typing of the Dead 5.8%
- Untouchable Complete a level without taking any damage in Typing of the Dead 5.6%
- Lights, Camera, Slaughter! Complete all Director's Cut levels in House of the Dead 2.7%
- Digits of Destruction Complete a Hard level without taking damage in Typing of the Dead 1.8%
- Mad Motor Fingers Complete a Hardcore level without taking damage in Typing of the Dead 1.5%
- Fingers of Fury Complete all Hardcore levels in Typing of the Dead 1.4%
- Temper Temper Kill 30 Rage mutants in Typing of the Dead 1.4%
- Challenge Accepted Complete all challenges in all Director's Cut levels in House of the Dead 0.8%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-19.