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Nightmares from the Deep: The Cursed Heart
Give it 4 hours
Gets good by 4h then rated almost like by veterans
Fully opens up by 5h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 59% of owners
Steam reviews 92% positive of 1,608
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 6 reviews are negative (17%); after 5h it's 1 in 18 (5%).
- Fully opens up by hour 5.
- The opening is criticised less than in 79% of games we track.
- Few early reviews, so this is a rough estimate.
- Only 59% 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 1,622 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 295 reviews: 6.2h for positive, 4.5h 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 (59.2% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
Story milestones aren't labeled yet; all achievements are listed below.
All achievements (15)
- PLAYTIME Impressive work, mate, ye finished that game in under a minute! 100%
- LUCKY ROLL Three games and zero skips--the odds certainly be in yer favor now! 94%
- RULE O' THREE All 3 in 3 seconds? Ye see pretty good for a bloke with an eyepatch! 92%
- CLOCKED Ye got that one in under a minute. Not one ta waste time, are ye? 86%
- SKULLDUGGERY Seems “3” is yer lucky number, ‘ey, matey! 86%
- UNBURIED TREASURE Ho, matey! All those cursed coins are now yers. Nicely done! 84%
- SURESHOT Ye barely made a mistake! Yer clickin’ hook’s as steady as they come. 73%
- NAY, SKIPPER All games won without a skip! Ye sure ye never played this before? 43%
- TILE TIME Ye take yer game playing serious. Ye beat that one in under a minute! 28%
- TRIPLE-PLAYED Three in a row without reshuffling! An admirable job! 27%
- SELF-GUIDED TOUR All o’ them without a hint? Guess ye ain’t the map-usin’ type... 26%
- AYE, CAPTAIN! Ahoy! Ye bested the game, mate--or should I be callin’ ye Captain… 26%
- MAHJONG FIRST MATE Ye’ve left the first half o’ the Mahjong games in yer wake! Arr! 23%
- MAHJONG MASTER AND COMMANDER Ye’ve finished all the games o’ Mahjong. Well played, sir! 17%
- RULER O' THE SEAS Congratulations on plunderin’ every last Achievement, me bucko! 14%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-20.