Adventure
Whispers of a Machine
Give it 1 hour
Gets good by 1h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 5h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 48% of owners
Steam reviews 93% positive of 2,025
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours almost 1 in 3 reviews are negative (30%); after 7h it's almost 1 in 20 (5%).
- Fully opens up by hour 5.
- Few early reviews, so this is a rough estimate.
- Only 48% 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 2,046 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 294 reviews: 7.9h for positive, 6.8h 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 (47.5% 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 (25)
- Hidden Potential Unlocked a new augmentation 100%
- Power Overwhelming Unlocked a full set of augmentations 83%
- Sharp-Eyed Discovered a devious device of death 83%
- Case Closed Finished the game 82%
- Pick the Baby Gave the baby a name fit for a pet 65%
- Unleash the Wolf Wiped the mainframe with the Fenrir Protocol 57%
- Memento Katarina will remember that 52%
- Museophile Took your sweet time at the exhibition 52%
- Babysitter Prioritized installing the nutrient canister over pursuing Katarina 51%
- Path of Baldr Finished the game empathically 48%
- Caregiver Gave the child a loving home 47%
- Environmentalist Left the recycling center in an eco-friendly fashion 37%
- Singularity-Minded Hail Huldra 34%
- Path of Frigg Finished the game analytically 32%
- Mixed Methods Mismatched augs were your cup of tea 29%
- Whispers of a Soda Machine Failed to get that hundred-year-old soda 28%
- Whodunnit What monster could be responsible for such a heinous crime? 24%
- Passive Smoking Redux Passively smoked whatever Rolf was having 24%
- Whispers of a Coffee Machine Had at least one daily cup of joe 22%
- Careerist Parenthood wasn't in the cards 17%
- Path of Tyr Finished the game assertively 16%
- Serial Returner That was anti-kleptoclimactic 14%
- Sneak Attack Ambushed the ambusher 13%
- Reassembled Gave Karl the finger 11%
- Close Call Alex almost had his way 8.2%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-19.