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Resident Evil 2
Hooks you almost right away
Gets good by 3h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 7h rated like by long-time players
Reach the ending at least 55% of players who started
Started playing 95% of owners
Steam reviews 97% positive of 226,554
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 8 reviews are negative (13%); after 10h it's 1 in 45 (2%).
- Fully opens up by hour 7.
- The opening is criticised less than in 87% of games we track.
- At least 55% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “Welcome to the City of the Dead” (Make it to the police station) and “Path to the Goddess” (Solve the Goddess Statue puzzle): from 100% to 77% of starters.
- 95% 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 227,878 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 297 reviews: 14.6h for positive, 7.3h 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 (94.9% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Welcome to the City of the Dead Make it to the police station. 100%
- Path to the Goddess Solve the Goddess Statue puzzle. Most players quit here 77% −23
- Never-Ending Rain Escape the police station. 65% −12
- A Great Need for a Shower Escape from the sewers. 61% −4
- Hack Complete Complete Ada's segment. 60% −1
- A Hero Emerges Complete Leon's story. ≥55% −5
story milestone ending (most common ending) biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (44)
story milestone ending side
- Welcome to the City of the Dead Make it to the police station. 100%
- The Basics of Survival Combine two items together. 91%
- Eat This! Counterattack with a sub-weapon. 90%
- Hip to Add Squares Increase your inventory slots. 88%
- That'll Hold 'Em Use Wooden Boards to board up a window. 88%
- First Break-In Open a dial safe. 87%
- Customizer Customize a weapon. 85%
- A Vault-like Mind Open a portable safe. 83%
- Path to the Goddess Solve the Goddess Statue puzzle. 77%
- Vermin Extermination Destroy a Mr. Raccoon. 69%
- Never-Ending Rain Escape the police station. 65%
- Don't Need No Stinkin' Gun Defeat an enemy with a knife. 65%
- Bon Appétit Shoot the grenade you fed to an enemy. 64%
- Hats Off! Shoot Tyrant's hat off his head. 61%
- A Great Need for a Shower Escape from the sewers. 61%
- Keep Their Heads Ringin' Paralyze a licker's sense of hearing. 60%
- Hack Complete Complete Ada's segment. 60%
- Like Skeet Shooting Shoot a zombie dog or a licker out of the air. 59%
- A Hero Emerges Complete Leon's story. 55%
- Chasing Jill Read a letter left behind by Jill. 54%
- A Waist of Space Expand inventory slots to max. 43%
- Hide and Seek Complete Sherry's segment. 41%
- Master of Unlocking Open all of the safes and locks in the game. 41%
- A Heroine Emerges Complete Claire's story. 38%
- In the Blink of an Eye Defeat Super Tyrant with 5+ minutes left until detonation. 33%
- Zombie Roundup Kill 3 enemies at once with a sub-weapon. 30%
- Broken Umbrella Witness the true ending. 30%
- Gotcha! Defeat Stage 2 G using the crane only once. 27%
- With Time to Spare Defeat Stage 4 G with 4+ minutes left until detonation. 26%
- Treasure Hunter Using the photo hints, find 2 hidden items. 23%
- Hardcore Rookie Complete Leon's story on "Hardcore" game mode. 11%
- Leon "S." Kennedy Complete Leon's story on "Standard" or "Hardcore" with an S rank. 11%
- Sizzling Scarlet Hero Complete Claire's story on "Standard" or "Hardcore" with an S rank. 10%
- Hardcore College Student Complete Claire's story on "Hardcore" game mode. 10%
- Frugalist Complete the game without using a recovery item. 10%
- Grim Reaper Complete "The 4th Survivor" extra mode. 10%
- A Small Carbon Footprint Take 14000 steps or fewer in one playthrough. 8.3%
- Young Escapee Escape the bedroom within 60 seconds during Sherry's segment. 7.6%
- One Slick Super-spy Use only the EMF Visualizer to complete Ada's gameplay segment. 7.2%
- Complete Vermin Extermination Destroy all Mr. Raccoons. 7.1%
- Hell of a Sheriff Complete the No Way Out scenario. (No training mode) 7.1%
- Minimalist Clear the game without opening the item box. 6.8%
- Lore Explorer Read all of the files. 6.3%
- Got 'Em Destroy all Mr. Raccoons hidden in The Ghost Survivors mode. 4.3%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-22.