ActionAdventureIndieSimulationEarly Access
Subsistence
Give it 10 hours
Gets good by 10h then rated almost like by veterans
Fully opens up by 20h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 22% of owners
Steam reviews 72% positive of 13,945
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours most reviews are negative (73%); after 20h it's 1 in 8 (13%).
- Fully opens up by hour 20.
- The opening is criticised more than in 97% of games we track.
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- Only 22% 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 13,969 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 297 reviews: 39.1h for positive, 7.9h 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 (21.7% 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 (47)
story milestone ending side
- Lumberjack Harvest 100 wood logs 100%
- Fiber Forager Harvest 100 fiber 100%
- Camper Light a campfire 99%
- Establish A Base Build a Base Command Unit 73%
- Sickness Slayer Cure an infection with an antidote 57%
- Wolf Hunter (Novice) Kill 10 wolves by any means 55%
- Bear Hunter (Novice) Kill 10 bears by any means 42%
- Wolf Hunter (Intermediate) Kill 25 wolf by any means 41%
- Deep Dive Discovery Scuba dive to discover the underground cave system 32%
- Deer Hunter (Novice) Kill 5 deer by any means 31%
- Bear Hunter (Intermediate) Kill 25 bear by any means 29%
- Wolf Hunter (Master) Kill 60 wolf by any means 27%
- Moose Hunter (Novice) Kill 5 moose by any means 27%
- Cougar Hunter (Novice) Kill 5 cougar by any means 26%
- Buzzworthy Bounty Find and harvest a beehive (found during the summer months) 24%
- Loot Locksmith Unlock 10 locked crates with a lockpick 22%
- Molten Depths Rock climb down into the deep lava caves 18%
- Bear Hunter (Master) Kill 60 bear by any means 18%
- Deer Hunter (Intermediate) Kill 15 deer by any means 17%
- Moose Hunter (Intermediate) Kill 15 moose by any means 15%
- Pump Action Service Star Achieve 100 large-game or human/hunter kills with the pump action shotgun 14%
- Cougar Hunter (Intermediate) Kill 15 cougar by any means 14%
- Salmon Fishing Pro Catch 10 salmon 13%
- Nest Raider Steal some pristine eagle feathers from an eagle nest 13%
- Bowmasters' Bullseye Kill a deer with a headshot using the bow (recurve or standard bow with any arrow type) 12%
- Cuisine Connoisseur Consume 5 high-end roast meals 12%
- M9 Pistol Service Star Achieve 100 large-game or human/hunter kills with the M9 pistol 10%
- Fortress Breacher Use a breaching charge to break into a hunter fortress 9.7%
- Ultimate Vitality Reach maximum health stats (125) 9.2%
- Deer Hunter (Master) Kill 30 deer by any means 9.2%
- ATV Mechanic Craft an ATV at the vehicle construction bay 9.2%
- Moose Hunter (Master) Kill 30 moose by any means 8.8%
- Stamina Legend Reach maximum stamina stats (125) 8.3%
- Frosty Fisherman Catch 10 fish of any type while ice fishing 8.3%
- Pike Fishing Pro Catch 10 pike 8.3%
- Cougar Hunter (Master) Kill 30 cougar by any means 8.3%
- Rifle Service Star Achieve 100 large-game or human/hunter kills with the rifle 7.8%
- Lever Action Service Star Achieve 100 large-game or human/hunter kills with the lever action rifle 7.4%
- Double Barrel Service Star Achieve 100 large-game or human/hunter kills with the double barrel shotgun 6.9%
- Recurve Service Star Achieve 100 large-game or human/hunter kills with the recurve bow 6.9%
- Base Cracker Use a BCU Cracker to destroy a hunter BCU 6.9%
- Bass Fishing Pro Catch 10 large mouth bass 6.5%
- Revolver Service Star Achieve 100 large-game or human/hunter kills with the .44 revolver 6.0%
- Catfish Fishing Pro Catch 10 catfish 3.7%
- Flying High Fly 500 meters using the hang glider 3.7%
- Double Impact Kill two hunters with a single hand grenade blast 2.8%
- Red 9 Service Star Achieve 100 large-game or human/hunter kills with the Red 9 pistol 1.8%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-18.