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Anodyne 2: Return to Dust
Give it 1 hour
Gets good by 1h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Started playing 77% of owners
Steam reviews 94% positive of 823
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 4 reviews are negative (23%); after 10h it's 1 in 50 (2%).
- Few early reviews, so this is a rough estimate.
- 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.
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Based on all 826 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 296 reviews: 11.6h for positive, 5.1h 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 (77.3% 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 (14)
- Nanoscale Enter Nanoscale for the first time 100%
- Birth Exit the Albumenium 89%
- Vale Visit the Blue Vale 56%
- Spire Reach the bottom of the Spire. 41%
- Collectible Get Get a Metacoin! 40%
- Metashop Purchase something from the Metashop. 38%
- Sands Clear the storm and visit the Outer Sands. 38%
- Metainfo Learn from a Metainfo point. 36%
- More Collectibles Find 200 Metacoins! 34%
- Unzone Visit an Unzone. 33%
- Confrontation Successfully Confront the Center. 30%
- Anodyne Finish the preparations for the Anodyne. 26%
- Lots of Collectibles! Find 400 Metacoins! 19%
- Very Rich Find 500 Metacoins! 8.7%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-20.