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Vertigo 2
Give it 5 hours
Gets good by 5h then rated almost like by veterans
Fully opens up by 10h rated like by long-time players
Reach the ending 28% of players who started
Started playing 95% of owners
Steam reviews 95% positive of 2,738
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 5 reviews are negative (22%); after 10h it's 1 in 70 (1%).
- Fully opens up by hour 10.
- 28% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “Armed and Dangerous” (Receive your first gun) and “Tailgunner” (Defend the Iron Chub): from 100% to 73% of starters.
- 94% 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 2,751 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 298 reviews: 12.6h for positive, 4.1h 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 (94.5% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Armed and Dangerous Receive your first gun 100%
- Tailgunner Defend the Iron Chub Most players quit here 73% −27
- Thermal Entropy Defeat the Igneosaur 48% −25
- Sapped Defeat the Saplord 41% −7
- Fishing With a Friend Defeat the Big Fish 36% −5
- Arch Enemy Escape the Archyosathus 34% −1
- A Nice Egg Defeat the Hummingbird 30% −4
- Fading Light Defeat the Seer 30%
- Forseen Consequences Activate the Vortex Propagator 29%
- Cyberpunked Defeat Cyberjoseph 28% −1
- The End Finish the story 28%
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (52)
story milestone ending side
- Armed and Dangerous Receive your first gun 100%
- Tailgunner Defend the Iron Chub 73%
- Hellfire Get 25 kills with gas tanks 71%
- Smile! Take a selfie 61%
- Xenocide Kill 100 aliens 59%
- Force Quit Kill 100 robots 50%
- Thermal Entropy Defeat the Igneosaur 48%
- Marksman Get 300 headshots 48%
- Close Call Survive your health reaching 2% or below 46%
- The Hunt Defeat a Centaur 45%
- Calculated Get 150 headshot kills 41%
- Sapped Defeat the Saplord 41%
- Art of the Deal Strike a bargain with Nani 41%
- Regicide Defeat a Bonehead Monarch 39%
- Fishing With a Friend Defeat the Big Fish 36%
- Extinction Kill 500 aliens 35%
- Strongbow Acquire the Aetherian Quad Bow 35%
- Arch Enemy Escape the Archyosathus 34%
- Freedom Fighter Join the Automata Collective in the Autonican Civil War 34%
- Demolitions Expert Get 25 kills with grenades 34%
- Gravedigger Die 50 times 31%
- Terminator Kill 500 robots 31%
- Really Armed and Dangerous Acquire all eight standard weapons 30%
- A Nice Egg Defeat the Hummingbird 30%
- Fading Light Defeat the Seer 30%
- Revolution Defeat Maharishi Ghronto 29%
- Forseen Consequences Activate the Vortex Propagator 29%
- Cyberpunked Defeat Cyberjoseph 28%
- The End Finish the story 28%
- Tacticool Unlock all mods for one weapon 27%
- The Chosen Gun Acquire Kauboi's Revolver 26%
- Thinking with Gordles Acquire the Gordle Pun 25%
- Wild West Commune with Kauboi 23%
- Anti-Antifa Join the Church in the Autonican Civil War 23%
- Sacrifice Defy fate. 22%
- Deadly Digit Acquire the Finger Gun 20%
- Tradition Defeat General Sintho 18%
- Super Shotgun Acquire the Annihilator Prototype 17%
- Catalyst Fulfill your purpose. 16%
- Old School Acquire the Nostalgic Pistol 14%
- Sacrilege Pour the sacred goblet out on the floor 13%
- Finite Runner Get a score of 800 or higher in NaniRun 11%
- Documentarian Take 20 photos 9.7%
- Secret Keeper Find all six secret weapons 9.4%
- Modmaster Unlock all weapon mods 5.2%
- Kebab Kill 5 or more enemies with a single Meat Nailer shot 4.6%
- Big Nerd Unlock every entry in the Encyclopedia 1.6%
- Purist Beat the game without unlocking any weapon mods (from a fresh save slot) 1.4%
- Immortal Beat the game without dying (from a fresh save slot) 1.3%
- Lucky 13 Complete the game as Officer 13 (from a fresh save slot) 1.1%
- Boomer Shooter Complete the game as Brian (from a fresh save slot) 0.8%
- Psychic Damage Complete the game as Nani (from a fresh save slot) 0.8%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-19.