Hide and Shriek
Give it 2 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 3 reviews are negative (31%); after 3h it's 1 in 19 (5%).
- Fully opens up by hour 3.
- 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 5,389 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 300 reviews: 3.5h for positive, 0.2h 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 (39.4% 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 (20)
story milestone ending side
- Winner! Win a game. 100%
- Opportunist Shriek at an incapacitated Player. 51%
- Not afraid of the dark Deliver an Orb to your altar while cursed by Gloom Shroud. 23%
- The Wisp Whisperer Successfully hit your foe with Haunting Wisp and It Follows in one game. 22%
- Fright Night Have you and your foe hit with Fright Trap and Fright Pocket in one game. 17%
- No Mercy! Earn 3 Merciless Victories. 15%
- Score! Get a score of 120,000 11%
- As if… Trick your foe into being abducted by their own Hungry Void. 9.4%
- Oh no you don't! Hit a player with Ghost Flame while they are sprinting. 7.1%
- Archmage Cast all spells at least once. 6.6%
- Shrieked out Get scared 50 times. 6.1%
- Play on Playa Participate in 10 public games. 4.8%
- Quick Draw Successfully Shriek at your opponent within 40 seconds of a match starting. 4.8%
- True Sight Have Runic Sight, Peril Sight and Treasure Sight running at the same time. 4.1%
- Fooled you! Use spells to trick your opponent into wasting their Shriek 3 times in one game. 3.8%
- Bookworm Find all Stories. 3.6%
- I've got the power! Reach Max Level. 3.6%
- Gotta Go Fast Deliver 3 Orbs to your altar within a 20 second period. 3.3%
- Nice to meat you Scare your foe with Meatface wearing a sausage necklace and a chef's hat. 3.3%
- Psych! Dispel your foe's No Fear and then Shriek at them. 3.3%