AdventureIndie
The Search
Give it 1 hour
Gets good by 1h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Started playing 67% of owners
Steam reviews 73% positive of 1,384
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours almost 1 in 3 reviews are negative (29%); after 3h it's 1 in 4 (27%).
- Only 67% 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 1,407 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 112 reviews: 1.3h for positive, 0.9h 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 (67.4% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
Story milestones aren't labeled yet; all achievements are listed below.
All achievements (9)
- Price of Admission Found the first Ticket to another world 100%
- Painter Painted a passageway forward 70%
- Iron Crow Painted a Crowbar 63%
- Ticket Painter Painted the torn Ticket whole 56%
- Canvas Repair Repaired the torn Canvas 55%
- New World Completed The Search 52%
- The Wasteland Journeyed into the Wasteland 45%
- Ticket Machine Found a secret Ticket Machine 28%
- Well Read Picked up all Notes & Journal entries 25%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-20.