ActionAdventure
Watch_Dogs® 2
The first 3 hours are a test
Gets good by 3h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 20h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 39% of owners
Steam reviews 82% positive of 105,335
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (55%); after 20h it's 1 in 10 (10%).
- Fully opens up by hour 20.
- The opening is criticised more than in 84% of games we track.
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- Only 39% 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 105,487 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 297 reviews: 17.5h 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 (39.1% 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 (55)
story milestone ending side
- Who Am I Erase your past identity in the Blume servers 100%
- Put Your Damn Pants On Buy some pants after the party 89%
- Third Time's the Charm Make 3 jumps in a row aboard a vehicle 78%
- Menace Buy a two handed weapon at the 3D printer 50%
- Roboteer Hack a robot 45%
- Knight Ridden Finish Operation: Cyber Driver 41%
- App'ing Around Buy all the apps in the App Shop 33%
- Baby, I Got Your Money Finish Operation: False Profits 32%
- Smooth Felon Escape a Level 5 felony 29%
- No Place Like Haum Finish Operation: Haum Sweet Haum 28%
- Knock You Out Do a stealth takedown on 30 enemies 28%
- Picking Up the Pieces Finish Operation: Looking Glass 25%
- Hold My Hand Successfully complete an online Co-op Operation 23%
- Informer Finish Operation: Limp Nudle 23%
- Something To Ride Hijack a bus 23%
- Sabotage Finish Operation: Hacker War 22%
- Bad Boys Hijack a boat 20%
- Old School Justice Finish Operation: Eye for An Eye 18%
- Hypnotize Finish Operation: W4tched 18%
- Joined the Mile High Club Finish Operation: Hack teh World 16%
- The Fox Finish Operation: Shadow 16%
- A Ride to Remember Drive one of the Unique Vehicles 15%
- DedSec-A-Roni Ride a cable car 15%
- Pimp My eKart Get all the eKart upgrades 15%
- The Itsy Bitsy Spider Finish Operation: Robot Wars 15%
- You're On A Boat! Finish Operation: Shanghaied 15%
- 100% Legit Finish Operation: $911 14%
- Make Every Voice Count Finish Operation: Power to the Sheeple 14%
- Leaks and Leaks Finish Operation: Ubistolen 14%
- Troll'r Successfully invade another hacker 14%
- Hack the World Trigger the hack of the century 13%
- Natural Born Killer Neutralize 1 Hunter in Bounty Hunter mode 12%
- Photobombed! Get photobombed in a selfie 12%
- Ain't No Stopping Do a bike race 12%
- One of the Gang Complete 5 DedSec Events 11%
- Doggyland Pet 10 dogs 9.7%
- I Get Around Do a drone race 5.6%
- Only God Can Judge Me Buy a shirt in the Nudle vending machine 5.4%
- Jump Around Do a 140 meters long jump while driving a vehicle 4.9%
- Let Me Ride Travel 200 meters on top of a car by hacking it 4.9%
- The Score of Your Life Finish Operation: Automata 4.6%
- That Escalated Quickly Finish Operation: Moscow Gambit 4.6%
- Not the Pizza Guy Finish Operation: Bad Medicine 4.3%
- Nanotriumph Finish Operation: Caustic Progress 4.3%
- Miniroadtrip! Drive 4 km in the world while driving the Merengue from Elek Motors 3.8%
- One-Man Garage Buy 25 cars in car dealerships 3.8%
- Got The Shutterbug Take 25 ScoutX location pictures 3.6%
- Researcher Collect all the Key Data hidden in the world 3.3%
- In Style Buy the Gatorfeet Whine Country footwear 3.1%
- Earn your Sea Legs Do a sailboat race 2.8%
- Please Marcus, Don't Hurt Them Successfully neutralize 5 fugitives in Bounty Hunter 2.0%
- Feeding Frenzy Use the "Call the cops" hack on the donut-disguised man in Haight-Ashbury 2.0%
- Hold My Hair Take a picture of someone vomiting 1.5%
- Prize Catch Finish Operation: Off the Hook 0.8%
- It's the Final Showd0wn Reach the maximum win streak bonus in Showd0wn 0.5%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-20.