Dark Deception
Hooks you almost right away
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 5 reviews are negative (18%); after 4h it's 1 in 11 (9%).
- Fully opens up by hour 3.
- The opening is criticised less than in 76% of games we track.
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- Only 45% 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 24,764 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 300 reviews: 5.6h for positive, 7.1h 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 (45.4% 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 (40)
story milestone ending side
- Shard Enthusiast Get a streak of 100 shards in Monkey Business. 100%
- Not Monkeying Around Don't die for 2 mins in Monkey Business. 99%
- Service, Please! Rang the service bell 10 times. 28%
- Eagle Eyes Found a secret in Monkey Business. 26%
- Watching the Watchers Watched a Gold Watcher for 10 seconds 17%
- Smarty Pants Didn't touch any fake portals. 16%
- Ahead of the Class Beat Elementary Evil without using any stun orbs. 16%
- Bushmaster Completed the hedge maze in under 6 minutes. 16%
- Fools Rush In Killed by every trap type in Deadly Decadence. 15%
- Lucky Day Survived a Dread Ducky stun attack. 12%
- Multiplicity Allowed all clowns to exit the clown car. 12%
- Smooth Moves Beat Doom Ducky without dying. 12%
- The Last Laugh Defeated the Clown Goliaths in less than 8 mins. 11%
- No Surprises Here No deaths from the jack-in-the-box traps. 9.5%
- Peer into Darkness Found Agatha's hiding place. 8.8%
- The Bigger They Are Defeated the Matron. 8.8%
- Evasive Maneuvers Didn't get killed by any traps. 8.6%
- They Float Found something that floats. 8.1%
- Terminated Defeated Joy Kill 7.5%
- A Joyful End Killed by all 3 members of the Joy Joy Gang. 6.8%
- Observant Didn't get killed by any traps. 6.6%
- Monkey King Earn an S Rank in Monkey Business. 5.7%
- Playtime! Slid down the playground slide. 5.3%
- Too Cool for School Earn an S Rank in Elementary Evil. 4.8%
- Sweet Tooth You ate some demonic cotton candy. 4.8%
- Ducky Boss Earn an S Rank in Stranger Sewers. 4.4%
- Blood Donor Gave blood in the Needle Room. 4.4%
- The Golden One Earn an S Rank in Deadly Decadence. 4.2%
- Open Door Policy Opened every door in Stranger Sewers. 4.0%
- Clown Prince Earn an S Rank in Crazy Carnevil. 4.0%
- Stealthy Survivor Sneak by the Matron undetected. 4.0%
- Going Vegan Avoid Penny's eggs in all zones. 3.7%
- Rule Breaker Defeated Mama Bear 3.7%
- Camera Shy Did not trigger any cameras in Zone 1 3.1%
- Unruly Patient Earn an S Rank in Torment Therapy 2.9%
- The Luckiest Earn an S Rank in Mascot Mayhem. 2.9%
- Problem Child Earn an S Rank in Bearly Buried. 2.4%
- Bearly Noticeable Got the first ring piece without dying. 2.4%
- No Bear Hugs No deaths from Mama Bear in the mazes. 1.3%
- Smarter Than Your Average Bear Didn't get killed by any traps. 1.3%