When does Prey get good?

Give it 15 hours. In the first 2 hours almost 1 in 2 reviews are negative (43%); after 20h it's 1 in 30 (4%). Fully opens up by hour 20.

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Prey

May 4, 2017 Steam: Very Positive

Give it 15 hours

Gets good by 15h then rated almost like by veterans

Fully opens up by 20h rated like by long-time players

Started playing 82% of owners

Steam reviews 91% positive of 54,887

What the data shows

In the first 2 hours almost 1 in 2 reviews are negative (43%); after 20h it's 1 in 30 (4%).
Fully opens up by hour 20.
The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
82% 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 55,099 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 298 reviews: 29h for positive, 6.3h 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 (82.1% 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 (58)

story milestone ending side

Know Thy Self You acquired a Human ability. 100%
Facsimile You met January for the first time. 68%
Know Thine Enemy You acquired a Typhon power. 49%
Open Says She You used Danielle's voice samples to access Deep Storage. 45%
Engineer You repaired (20) objects on and around Talos I. 42%
Operator You hacked at least (20) hackable objects on and around Talos I. 42%
Adrift You rescued Dr. Igwe from a cargo container. 39%
A Friend in Need You recovered Mikhaila's booster shots and healed her. 39%
The Gates of Hell You completed the Shipping and Receiving objective and no human lives were lost. 36%
Intrinsic Value You recycled yourself. 36%
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle You used a single Recycler Charge to recycle at least 20 objects. 35%
Best Served Cold You killed Luka and avenged Abby. 35%
Brain Trust You helped Igwe, January, and Mikhaila meet in your office. 34%
Dead Calm You killed an enemy while using Combat Focus. 33%
Suicide by Proxy You killed January. 33%
Cold Dead Hands You fully upgraded a weapon. 32%
Coffee Break You found Dr. Calvino's secret stash. 30%
Gift to the World You found Gustav Leitner's Connectome for Dr. Igwe. 28%
This Never Happened You performed an apto-regressive neurotomy on Dahl. 27%
Prism Master You read the entire Starbender series and don't regret it. 24%
Self-Incriminating You found out what happened to Mikhaila's father and let her know. 24%
Abandon Ship You fled Talos I aboard Alex's escape pod before completing your mission. 22%
No Show You died to helicopter blades on your first day on the job. 17%
Psychometry You found and listened to all TranScribe recordings. 17%
Press Sneak You read all the e-mails on Talos I. 17%
Mimic Massacre You killed (5) Mimics in 5 seconds. 16%
Dear Future Self You found and listened to all the messages you left for yourself. 16%
You Rang? You used the Psychotronics satellite to dismiss or summon the Typhon Nightmare. 16%
Deprogramming You used Mindjack to free a mind-controlled Human. 14%
TranStar Gourmand You consumed one of every type of food and drink on Talos I. 14%
Do No Harm You completed the game without killing any Humans. 14%
I and Thou You completed the game in the most empathetic way possible. 13%
Push the Fat Guy You killed Alex. 12%
A Different Side of Yu You scanned your Phantom Shift duplicate with the Psychoscope. 11%
It's Alive! You created a Phantom using Phantom Genesis. 9.6%
Tee One Up You killed an enemy while they were Lifted. 9.5%
Thoughts Can Kill You used Psychoshock on a Human. 9.1%
Ball Lightning You used Electrostatic Burst to drop two or more Operators at once. 8.9%
Black Market You found all the smuggler's dead drops. 8.3%
Mimesis You mimicked a Mimic. 6.3%
Shapeshifter You mimicked (20) or more unique objects. 6.3%
Apex Predator In Mooncrash, defeat a Moon Shark. 5.8%
Missing Persons You located all employees on Talos I. 5.5%
Squad Goals In Mooncrash, unlock all 5 playable characters. 3.8%
Makeup Exam You returned to the Simulation Lab and completed the tests in Rooms A, B, and C. 3.0%
No One Left Behind In Mooncrash, escape the simulation with all five playable characters in a single run. 3.0%
Quantum Leap In Mooncrash, complete all Story Objectives. 2.8%
Contract Fulfilled In Mooncrash, complete all KASMA Orders. 2.8%
Escape Velocity You blasted yourself as an object for at least 20 meters while in normal gravity. 2.6%
Cryptomancer In Mooncrash, finish the game with a surplus of 50,000 sim points or more. 2.3%
Psychostatic Efficiency In Mooncrash, damage 3 enemies with a single Psychostatic Cutter projectile. 2.3%
Split Affinity You completed the game once acquiring only Typhon Powers and again acquiring only Human abilities. 2.1%
No Needles You completed the game without ever acquiring any Typhon power or Human ability. 2.1%
I’m Your Biggest Fan In Mooncrash, you read all of the second Starbender series and still no regrets. 1.9%
I and It You killed every Human on and around Talos I. 1.7%
Awkward Ride Home You escaped Talos I aboard Dahl's shuttle with only Dahl. 1.7%
Three-Body Problem In Mooncrash, GLOO 3 enemies with a single GLOO charge. 1.7%
Galaxy Brain In Mooncrash, install every neuromod power for every character. 1.5%

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