The Last of Us™ Part II Remastered
Give it 3 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 4 reviews are negative (25%); after 20h it's 1 in 13 (8%).
- Fully opens up by hour 20.
- 64% of players who start reach the ending.
- Most players drop off before “What I Had to Do” (Complete the story): only 64% of starters get there.
- 85% 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 58,056 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 300 reviews: 25.7h for positive, 16.1h 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 (85.1% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- What I Had to Do Complete the story Most players quit here 64% −36
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (45)
story milestone ending side
- Tinkerer Upgrade a weapon 100%
- Apprentice Learn a player upgrade 98%
- Starter Set Find 5 trading cards 91%
- Specialist Learn all player upgrades in one branch 78%
- In the Field Find 12 workbenches 73%
- Mechanist Fully upgrade a weapon 72%
- Mint Condition Find 5 coins 66%
- Put My Name Up Earn the high score in the archery game 66%
- High Caliber Find all weapons 65%
- What I Had to Do Complete the story 64%
- Journeyman Find all training manuals 64%
- Survival Training Learn 25 player upgrades 61%
- Sharpshooter Win the marksmanship competition 50%
- Tools of the Trade Craft every item 45%
- So Great and Small Find the Engraved Ring 39%
- Sightseer Visit every location in downtown Seattle 37%
- Looks Good On You Put a hat on your companion 27%
- True Strength Get an S rank on an encounter 23%
- Relic of the Sages Find the Strange Artifact 23%
- Mixed Bag Get kills with 5 different weapons in an Assault encounter in No Return 22%
- Safecracker Unlock every safe 18%
- Become The Hunter Kill 12 enemies in a Hunted encounter in No Return 17%
- Prepared For the Worst Find all workbenches 17%
- Arms Master Fully upgrade all weapons 11%
- Survival Expert Learn all player upgrades 9.6%
- Got Your Back Win a round of Holdout without your ally falling below 70% health in No Return 8.9%
- Risk Taker Complete five gambits in one run of No Return 7.9%
- Good Riddance Beat all bosses 7.2%
- Numismatist Find all coins 6.2%
- May Your Survival Be Long Win a Daily Run of No Return 6.1%
- Master Set Find all trading cards 6.1%
- Archivist Find all artifacts and journal entries 5.9%
- Dig Two Graves Complete the story on Grounded. 5.9%
- Burglar Open the safe in Capture without killing any enemies in No Return 5.2%
- Modded Complete an encounter with each Mod in No Return 5.1%
- Team Ellie Complete all Ellie faction challenge tracks 5.1%
- This Make You All Nostalgic? Complete the Part I challenge track in No Return 5.1%
- I Would Do It All Over Again Complete the story in chronological order 5.1%
- Team Abby Complete all Abby faction challenge tracks 4.8%
- Biology Lesson Kill a Bloater with the pump shotgun as Bill in No Return 4.6%
- Every Last One of Them Collect all the regular story achievements 4.5%
- Roll Call Win a run with every character in No Return 4.3%
- May Your Death Be Swift Win a Daily Run of No Return on Grounded difficulty 4.2%
- You Can't Stop This Complete the story with any Permadeath setting 4.1%
- Queen Firefly Kill 15 enemies with Marlene's assault rifle in one encounter in No Return 3.9%