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Deadzone: Rogue
Give it 2 hours
Gets good by 2h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Reach the ending 19% of players who started
Started playing 99% of owners
Steam reviews 82% positive of 16,861
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 3 reviews are negative (36%); after 10h it's 1 in 6 (17%).
- 19% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “Brain in a Jar” (Complete the Story of Zone 1) and “Stay Frosty” (Complete the Story of Zone 2): from 85% to 62% of starters.
- 99% 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 17,018 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 296 reviews: 19.1h for positive, 6.4h 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 (98.6% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Brain in a Jar Complete the Story of Zone 1 85% −15
- Stay Frosty Complete the Story of Zone 2 Most players quit here 62% −23
- Brain Drain Complete the Story of Zone 3 41% −21
- Apophis Apocrypha Complete the Story of Zone 4 19% −21
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (58)
story milestone ending side
- What Are These? Kill your first Android 100%
- Who the Hell am I? Start your first Mission 100%
- Fabricate a Beer Make your first purchase at the Fabricator 99%
- Scrappy Collect 500 Scrap 98%
- Contents Under Pressure Kill an enemy with an Explosive Barrel 97%
- Did I Just Die? Die for the first time 97%
- Looky Here Read your first Data Log 96%
- Gaining Power Upgrade a Tech Mastery for the first time 96%
- Tech Enthusiast Collect 100 Tech 95%
- Welcome to the Deadzone Complete your first Mission 87%
- Brain in a Jar Complete the Story of Zone 1 85%
- Made a Friend Dabble in botany 85%
- Tech Titan Collect 1,000 Tech 83%
- Terminate This Kill 500 Androids 79%
- Feeling Good Upgrade at least 3 Tech Masteries to Tier 5 72%
- Special Ops Complete your first Specialty Mission 71%
- Exterminate! Kill 1,000 Androids 70%
- Getting an Upgrade Upgrade a Superior Item for the first time 69%
- Scrap Pile Collect 50,000 Scrap 68%
- I live... I die. I live... I die. I live... I die. Die 10 times 65%
- This Ain’t Standard Issue Upgrade at least 3 Superior Items to Tier 3 63%
- Stay Frosty Complete the Story of Zone 2 62%
- Ooo, Shiny! Purchase a Legendary item at the Fabricator 62%
- Crypto Wizard Collect 5,000 Tech 59%
- Hardcore Complete a Mission on at least Hard Difficulty 58%
- Space Wallet Spend 50,000 Scrap at the Fabricator 57%
- Scrap Lord Collect 100,000 Scrap 56%
- Jarheads Complete any Mission in Coop 48%
- Item Alchemist Activate a Synergy for the first time 45%
- Feeling the Power Have 3 Synergies active at the same time 42%
- Brain Drain Complete the Story of Zone 3 41%
- This Bug Hunt Got Complicated Complete all Zone 1 Missions 40%
- Maxed Out Upgrade all of your Superior Items to MAX Tier 39%
- Plot Armor Upgrade all of your Tech Masteries to MAX Tier 34%
- Express Elevator to Hell Complete a Mission on at least Expert Difficulty 28%
- Barrel of Laughs Kill 100 enemies with Explosive Barrels 25%
- Gunpowder Piety Sanctify a weapon for the first time 24%
- Apophis Apocrypha Complete the Story of Zone 4 19%
- Blinged Out Have a Loadout of all Legendary Equipment 19%
- Executive Dysfunction Complete all Zone 2 Missions 19%
- Bad Dreams Complete a Mission on Nightmare Difficulty 13%
- Too Long, Didn't Read Read all of the Data Logs 9.7%
- Asteroid Explorer Complete all Zone 4 Missions 8.2%
- Jazz Hands Take a little break, you deserve it 7.5%
- Mental Fortitude Complete all Zone 3 Missions 5.5%
- Forbidden Texts Read all of the Apophis Data Logs 5.5%
- Ponder Orb Click your heels three times 5.3%
- Invincible Can't touch this 4.9%
- Been There, Done That Complete every Mission 4.7%
- Back to Basics Complete any Mission with only your Starting Pistol 3.7%
- Hardcore to the Max Complete every Mission on at least Hard Difficulty 3.7%
- Devout Weaponsmith Sanctify 8 weapons to tier 2 3.0%
- Dig No Deeper Study Geology 1.7%
- Botanist There's no such thing as a 10,000 credit Rosarugula 1.5%
- Death Incarnate Complete every Mission on at least Expert Difficulty 1.1%
- I am the Nightmare Complete every Mission on Nightmare Difficulty 0.9%
- Promote Synergy Activate each Synergy at least once 0.6%
- Hallowed Forgemaster Sanctify all weapons to Max tier 0.4%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-19.