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Beholder
Give it 5 hours
Gets good by 5h then rated almost like by veterans
Fully opens up by 7h rated like by long-time players
Reach the ending at least 19% of players who started
Started playing 75% of owners
Steam reviews 92% positive of 31,276
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 6 reviews are negative (18%); after 7h it's 1 in 25 (4%).
- Fully opens up by hour 7.
- The opening is criticised less than in 77% of games we track.
- At least 19% of players who start reach the ending.
- 75% of owners got the first achievement.
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 31,441 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 287 reviews: 8.2h for positive, 4.1h 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 (75.3% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- No Man's Spy Be out of conceit with the secret ending ≥19% −81
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 (60)
story milestone ending side
- Not a Big Dealer Report the drug maker 100%
- Family Guy Get on track with your family 85%
- Pimp My Bride Find a woman for Shpak 75%
- Die Like You Mean It Be killed by a tenant 48%
- White Papers, Black Mails Write a blackmailing letter 47%
- I Choose Violence Dishouse Klaus Shimmer in a hard way 37%
- Billing Them Softly Be caught in theft 31%
- Bahama Mama Set the Shimmers off to cruise 25%
- Not So Dumb This dumb is not mine! 24%
- Dirty Hands Take part in the attempt on the life of the General 22%
- No Man's Spy Be out of conceit with the secret ending 19%
- Patria o Muerte! New Tomorrow won (Trainee mode) 19%
- My Heart Will Go On Set the Shimmers off to sailing the barge 18%
- Iron Curtain Carl left in the country 17%
- War Is Peace The State still continues war on the border (Trainee mode) 17%
- Solitary Man All family is dead (Trainee mode) 16%
- Beholden To No One I have nothing to behold 12%
- Make Peace, Not War The war ended with ceasefire (Trainee mode) 11%
- Ignorance Is Power State influence upon citizens life increased (Trainee mode) 11%
- Unpaid Holiday Carl went abroad (Trainee mode) 10%
- Brave New World New Tomorrow is already here! 10%
- Easy Virtue Klara lived in the house twice 9.2%
- I Did Nothing! Force a tenant to commit suicide 9.2%
- War Never Changes Battle actions still take place on the border 8.9%
- Social Unit All family is alive (Trainee mode) 8.5%
- Fired! Out of a Cannon. Carl failed fit and proper test (Trainee mode) 7.4%
- Borderline Disorder Carl was caught on the border while he was trying to escape (Trainee mode) 7.2%
- Gold Standard Carl became a gold standard of a model citizen (Trainee mode) 7.0%
- Parental Control Report Martha 6.9%
- What Is It Good For? The war ended with ceasefire 6.6%
- Sleep Tight Hector slept his Blissful Sleep 6.4%
- Their Grass is Greener Carl went abroad 6.2%
- Freedom is Slavery State influence upon citizens life increased 6.1%
- I'm Too Old For This Undergo the Blissful Sleep procedure in advance 6.0%
- At both fronts Contribute to art development 5.8%
- Bad Time Stories Tune the agitation device on children radio wave 5.8%
- Most Important Thing All family is alive 5.3%
- Yo-ho-ho Be friends with a pirate 5.2%
- Love Potion No. 9 They lived happily… or not 5.0%
- Dance, dance! Find Zlata Schimmer's biological parents 5.0%
- Merry Drakaris Warm the old lady 5.0%
- Stop or I'll shoot! Carl was caught on the border while he was trying to escape 5.0%
- Validol or Validation? Carl failed fit and proper test 4.9%
- Citizen Shteyn Carl became a gold standard of a model citizen 4.8%
- Work or die Work in the Archives till the end of your life (Trainee mode) 4.4%
- Live like a boss Feed the cat with banned food 4.2%
- Leg Grower Help the war veteran grow back his leg 4.2%
- You're not Hannibal Lector Bring justice 4.1%
- I made it in life Hector went abroad and guaranteed a comfortable life (Trainee mode) 4.0%
- Dementia and Courage! Drink poisoned coffee 3.7%
- Look into the monsters' eyes Fear must be overcome 3.6%
- Law and Order Talk to the cat in one language 3.6%
- Blast from the past When the ghosts from your past haunt you 3.5%
- It's not my business Don't touch secrets of the past 3.5%
- Without a Severance Pay Hector went abroad 3.5%
- Dolce Vita Hector went abroad and guaranteed a comfortable life 3.5%
- Awesome Descartres There can't be too many thoughts! 3.5%
- Whiskered idler Try to get rid of the animal 3.3%
- 111 kilometers Work in the Archives till the end of your life 3.3%
- District 9 Hector ended his life in the slums 3.2%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-18.