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Scheming Through The Zombie Apocalypse: The Beginning
Give it 1 hour
Gets good by 1h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 2h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 30% of owners
Steam reviews 81% positive of 1,037
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 3 reviews are negative (30%); after 3h it's 1 in 8 (13%).
- Fully opens up by hour 2.
- Only 30% 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 1,067 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 105 reviews: 4.6h for positive, 5h 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 (30.1% 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 (19)
- First Loot Looted your first items. 100%
- Call to Adventure Left the safety of Hank’s apartment. 75%
- First Prospect Convinced your first animal to scavenge for you. 68%
- Killed an Animal Your choices killed an animal. 50%
- Master Lock Picker Unlocked the most complicated lock. 44%
- Joined the Guild Became a member of the scavenging guild. 43%
- Winning! Won in a game of dice. 42%
- Prevailing Over Tyranny Did not allow the bully raccoon kid to steal from you. 41%
- Ozzy Osbourne Look Larry earned two black eyes. 36%
- Killed a Few More Animals Your choices killed Elliot's family. 35%
- Fool Me Twice Tricked Larry into switching beds twice. 34%
- Krista Died A few minutes after leaving Krista, a coyote zombie broke the door and... 31%
- Out of Candy Got robbed by a raccoon kid while having an empty inventory. 26%
- Safety First Didn't get anyone killed today. 26%
- Accidental Recruiter Made Krista a guild member. 25%
- Sorry, Wombat Got a social justice warrior to beat up a mentally disabled animal. 25%
- Professional Scavenger Guides Brought loot worth over 700 points to the guild. 21%
- Professional Dicer Won all the items of the gambler dog. 21%
- Vengeance Dicer Avenged Larry by winning all the items of the gambler cat. 20%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-20.