BioShock™ 2 Remastered
Give it 7 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (59%); after 10h it's 1 in 6 (18%).
- Fully opens up by hour 10.
- The opening is criticised more than in 88% of games we track.
- 44% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “Daddy's Home” (Found your way back into the ruins of Rapture) and “Protector”: from 100% to 85% of starters.
- 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 30,707 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 298 reviews: 12.8h for positive, 8.2h 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.
- Started playing 100%
- Daddy's Home Found your way back into the ruins of Rapture. 100%
- Protector Defended yourself against Lamb's assault in the train station. Most players quit here 85% −15
- Sinclair's Solution Joined forces with Sinclair in Ryan Amusements. 72% −13
- Confronted Grace Confronted Lamb's lieutenant in Pauper's Drop. 62% −9
- Defeated the Preacher Defeated the Preacher. 54% −8
- Found Lamb's Hideout Gained access to Lamb's stronghold. 46% −8
- Heading to the Surface Headed to the surface on the side of Sinclair's escape pod. 45% −2
- Escape Escaped Rapture. 45%
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (53)
story milestone ending side
- Daddy's Home Found your way back into the ruins of Rapture. 100%
- Distance Hacker Used the Hack Tool to hack an object at a distance. 98%
- Protector Defended yourself against Lamb's assault in the train station. 85%
- Upgraded a Weapon Upgraded a weapon at a Power to the People Station. 82%
- Adopted a Little Sister Adopted a new Little Sister for the first time. 79%
- Sinclair's Solution Joined forces with Sinclair in Ryan Amusements. 72%
- First Research Researched a Splicer with the Research Camera. 66%
- Bought a Slot Bought one Plasmid Slot or Tonic Slot at a Gatherer's Garden. 66%
- Unbreakable Defended yourself against the Big Sister without dying. 66%
- Prolific Hacker Hacked one of each kind of machine. 63%
- Confronted Grace Confronted Lamb's lieutenant in Pauper's Drop. 62%
- Fully Upgraded a Weapon Installed the third upgrade to a weapon. 57%
- Grand Daddy Defeated 3 Big Daddies without dying during a fight. 55%
- Defeated the Preacher Defeated the Preacher. 54%
- Big Spender Spent 2000 Dollars at Vending Machines. 53%
- Nose for News Uncovered the secret of Dionysus Park. 50%
- Fully Upgraded a Plasmid Fully upgraded one Plasmid to the Level 3 version. 47%
- Found Lamb's Hideout Gained access to Lamb's stronghold. 46%
- Reunion Reunited with your original Little Sister. 46%
- Heading to the Surface Headed to the surface on the side of Sinclair's escape pod. 45%
- Escape Escaped Rapture. 45%
- Dealt with Every Little Sister Dealt with every Little Sister. 42%
- Master Gatherer Gather 600 ADAM with Little Sisters. 42%
- Look at You, Hacker Killed 50 enemies using only hacked Security. 39%
- Max Plasmid Slots Fully upgraded to the maximum number of Plasmid Slots. 37%
- Master Hacker Hacked 30 machines at a distance with the Hack Tool. 37%
- Trap Master Killed 30 enemies using only Traps. 31%
- One Research Track Maxed out one Research Track. 30%
- Master Protector Got through a Gather with no damage and no one getting to the Little Sister. 29%
- Counterattack Killed an enemy with its own projectile. 29%
- Rapture Historian Find 100 Audio Diaries. 24%
- Savior Saved every Little Sister and spared Grace, Stanley, and Gil. 21%
- Lancer Killer Kill a Lancer Big Daddy 18%
- Login Reached Rapture Central Computing Operations 16%
- Root Access Granted Reached Computer Core Access 15%
- SUDO Wrested control of the Thinker from Reed Wahl 15%
- Logout Escaped Minerva's Den 15%
- All Weapon Upgrades Found every Power to the People weapon upgrades in the game. 14%
- Big Brass Balls Finished the game without using Vita-Chambers. 14%
- ADAM Addict Resolved all the Little Sisters in Minerva's Den 14%
- Against All Odds Finished the game on the hardest difficulty level. 13%
- All Plasmids Found or purchased all 11 basic Plasmid types. 12%
- 9-Irony Paid your respects to the founder of Rapture. 8.9%
- Research Master Completed all research on every subject in Rapture. 8.8%
- Garbage Collection Destroyed all 10 Vacuum Bots in Minerva's Den 8.6%
- Perfect Protector Collected 100% of the ADAM in a single Protector Trial. 7.6%
- Litmus Test Earned 6 stars in the Protector Trials 7.4%
- Acid Test Earned 18 stars in the Protector Trials 6.4%
- Get a Bigger Bucket Collected 50% of the ADAM available in all Protector Trials. 6.2%
- Trial by Fire Earned 36 stars in the Protector Trials 6.1%
- High Score Got 9999 points in one game of Spitfire 6.0%
- Enemy of the Familiy Earned an A rank in all Protector Trials 5.7%
- Guardian Angel Completed all bonus Protector Trials 5.5%