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The first 3 hours are a test
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (59%); after 5h it's 1 in 6 (16%).
- Fully opens up by hour 5.
- The opening is criticised more than in 87% of games we track.
- At least 39% of players who start reach the ending.
- Only 34% 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 4,399 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 297 reviews: 5.7h for positive, 3.9h 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 (34.3% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- The past is always with us Reach the finals alone ≥39% −61
story milestone ending (most common ending) biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (20)
story milestone ending side
- What happened? Listen the airwaves in the hospital 100%
- Remember childhood Assemble the children's puzzle 79%
- Faith in God will help us Light a candles in an abandoned church 75%
- Friend Give your partner a first aid kit 74%
- Raskolnikov Kill grandmother in the old village 65%
- Opacification Find anomalous zone in the tunnels 61%
- Expert Rate the abstract picture on location "Bor" 55%
- What the numbers mean? Listen to the radio signal in tunnels 53%
- Dangerous Kill all dogs without reloading weapons 45%
- Hanged people Find the bodyes of hanged people over the railway 45%
- The past is always with us Reach the finals alone 39%
- Hero Help to grandfather in town 39%
- I hate mannequins! Find a room with mannequins in city 37%
- Small world Find "easter egg" from the first game of author 35%
- Burglar Open the safe in the city 33%
- Top secret Find the secret documents in the safe 32%
- Angels trumpeting Listen the sound anomaly at the first location 29%
- Voice of hell Call to Hell 27%
- Repose Die 27%
- Continue to live?? Reach the finals with a partner 19%