Stranded Deep
The first 3 hours are a test
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (54%); after 10h it's 1 in 6 (18%).
- Fully opens up by hour 10.
- The opening is criticised more than in 83% of games we track.
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- Only 67% 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 48,507 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 44 reviews: 7.2h for positive, 3.8h 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 (67.2% 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 (37)
story milestone ending side
- Backpacker Open your backpack. 100%
- Back To The Stone Age Craft a Stone Tool. 95%
- Look What I Have Created! Craft and light a Camp Fire. 78%
- Knife Skills Skin a crab. 75%
- Crabby Patty Cook crab meat. 68%
- Island Hopper Visit an island other than the first. 58%
- Fishing Season Is Open! Catch your first fish. 55%
- Horrific Pacific Complete the intro tutorial. 34%
- Working With My Hands Craft 20 tools. 31%
- The Seas Harvest Catch 10 fish. 27%
- Day 10 Survive for 10 days. 24%
- Green Thumb Plant your first farm plot. 24%
- Lean, Mean, Crafting Machine Craft 40 tools. 19%
- Powah! Craft a Motor Boat. 16%
- Day 20 Survive for 20 days. 14%
- New Threads Craft something using the Loom. 14%
- Nomad Craft a Sleeping Bag. 14%
- Moving Up Craft the Hobo Stove. 13%
- Special Package Find Wolley. 9.8%
- Another Day, Another Shore Create a camp (fire) on 5 distinct islands. 9.2%
- Unchained Melody Make a clay flask. 9.1%
- Fish Are Friends Go 10 days without eating a fish. 8.8%
- Da Vinci Craft the Gyro-copter. 7.4%
- Hunter Of The High Seas Defeat your first sea monster. 6.1%
- Day 50 Survive for 50 days. 4.5%
- Columbus Create a camp (fire) on 10 distinct islands. 3.3%
- Hermit Spend 10 days on one island. 3.0%
- Magnets Escaped without using the compass. 3.0%
- Out Of The Frying Pan Escaped..? 3.0%
- Vegetarian Spent 10 days without eating meat. 3.0%
- Call Me Ahab Collect all sea monster trophies. 2.7%
- Horticulturalist Have 1 of each farm crop planted on the same island. 1.9%
- Archaeologist Find all survivor remnants. 1.8%
- Day 100 Survive for 100 days. 1.6%
- Industrial Fashion Craft 10 pieces of furniture using corrugated scrap. 1.2%
- This Sparks Joy Craft 100 item piles. 1.2%
- Gotta Craft 'Em All! Craft 1 of each item on the same island. 0.9%