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DOOM Eternal
Give it 3 hours
Gets good by 3h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 10h rated like by long-time players
Reach the ending 41% of players who started
Started playing 77% of owners
Steam reviews 91% positive of 217,884
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 3 reviews are negative (35%); after 15h it's 1 in 19 (5%).
- Fully opens up by hour 10.
- 41% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “Doomsday” (Complete Hell on Earth) and “The Hunters Became the Hunted” (Kill the Doom Hunters): from 99% to 65% of starters.
- 77% 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 219,264 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 293 reviews: 16.1h for positive, 5.9h 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 (77.3% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Doomsday Complete Hell on Earth 99% −1
- The Hunters Became the Hunted Kill the Doom Hunters Most players quit here 65% −34
- Interplanetary Fracking Blow a hole in Mars 52% −12
- Thumbs Down Best the Gladiator in the coliseum 52%
- Reforged and Refueled Acquire a new Crucible in Taras Nabad 48% −4
- Nontraditionalist Kill the Khan Maykr 43% −5
- Iconoclast Kill the Icon of Sin 41% −1
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (50)
story milestone ending side
- Darn It, They Keep BREAKING Perform 33 Unique Glory Kills in a single save slot 100%
- Doomsday Complete Hell on Earth 99%
- Crystal Craving Upgrade Health, Armor, or Ammo 95%
- It's a Magic Number Kill 666 Demons (excluding Player Demons and Wolves) 77%
- Bonus Stage Complete a Slayer Gate 66%
- The Hunters Became the Hunted Kill the Doom Hunters 65%
- This One's my Favorite Complete a Praetor Suit Perk category in a single save slot 53%
- Interplanetary Fracking Blow a hole in Mars 52%
- Thumbs Down Best the Gladiator in the coliseum 52%
- Homemaykr Spend 8 Sentinel Batteries in the Fortress of Doom in a single save slot 50%
- Extra Extra Lives Pick up 20 Extra Lives Total in a single save slot 48%
- Reforged and Refueled Acquire a new Crucible in Taras Nabad 48%
- King of the Crystals Fully upgrade Health, Armor, or Ammo in a single save slot 46%
- Nontraditionalist Kill the Khan Maykr 43%
- Iconoclast Kill the Icon of Sin 41%
- The Once and Future Slayer Complete the Campaign on any difficulty 41%
- Breaker of Gates Complete all Slayer Gates in a single save slot 28%
- They're ALL My Favorite Purchase all Praetor Suit Perks in a single save slot 26%
- Meet Your Unmaykr Acquire the Unmaykr 25%
- Torrential Pain Complete the UAC Atlantica Facility (Ancient Gods 1) 18%
- If Only I Could Read… Collect all physical Codex pages in a single save slot 17%
- Reforged the Genie Lamp Complete the cheat code collection in a single save slot 16%
- Metal Head Complete the album collection in a single save slot 16%
- To Take a Life Sphere Destroy the Life Sphere in the Blood Swamps (Ancient Gods 1) 16%
- Playset Sold Separately Complete the toy collection in a single save slot 14%
- Regime Change Defeat Samur in the Holt (Ancient Gods 1) 14%
- Crystal Spelunker Complete World Spear (Ancient Gods 2) 13%
- Treasure Hunter Beat all encounters and Mission Challenges, and find all Items in Taras Nabad in a single save slot 12%
- Tougher Than Nails Acquire all Sentinel Hammer upgrades (Ancient Gods 2) 12%
- Cross the Threshold Complete Reclaimed Earth (Ancient Gods 2) 12%
- Siege the Day Complete Immora (Ancient Gods 2) 12%
- Rest Your Weary Fists Kill the Dark Lord (Ancient Gods 2) 11%
- Gunpletionist Master all Weapon Mods in a single save slot 8.8%
- Lucky Charm Bracelet Acquire all Support Runes in a single save slot (Ancient Gods 1) 8.0%
- Let's Play Complete the first Horde Mode Mission 7.5%
- Critical Literature Collect all physical Codex pages in a single save slot (Ancient Gods 2) 7.1%
- Required Reading Collect all physical Codex pages in a single save slot (Ancient Gods 1) 6.5%
- Hypersonic Complete all Secret Encounters in a single save slot (Ancient Gods 1) 6.1%
- Reinvent the Weapon Wheel Re-collect all of the weapons on the Weapon Wheel 4.8%
- Master of Fasting Complete a Mission with only the Famine Mode cheat on 4.7%
- Game Over Beat Horde Mode 3.6%
- Running Up the High Score Complete Extra Life Mode with 10 Extra Lives in your Inventory 3.0%
- Fight Like Hell Do 5000 damage as a Player Demon in BATTLEMODE 2.8%
- Mix and Match Play as 5 different Player Demons in BATTLEMODE 2.6%
- Man vs Monsters Play 25 BATTLEMODE matches 2.5%
- 1-Upsmanship Complete Extra Life Mode with 5 Extra Lives in your Inventory (Ancient Gods 1) 1.9%
- Live Die Reload Complete Extra Life Mode with 5 Extra Lives in your Inventory (Ancient Gods 2) 1.8%
- Truce between Demons Heal yourself or your teammate for 50000 health in BATTLEMODE 1.7%
- Blood Bath Kill 200 opponents in BATTLEMODE 1.6%
- Weapons Expert Kill a Player Demon with each of the 8 Slayer weapons in BATTLEMODE 1.6%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-22.