ActionAdventureIndieSimulation
Stay Out of the House
Give it 5 hours
Gets good by 5h then rated almost like by veterans
Fully opens up by 7h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 76% of owners
Steam reviews 94% positive of 1,910
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 6 reviews are negative (17%); after 7h it's 1 in 50 (2%).
- Fully opens up by hour 7.
- The opening is criticised less than in 79% of games we track.
- 76% 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 1,932 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 294 reviews: 8.3h for positive, 2.8h 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 (76% 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 (29)
- The Night Shift Complete the Night Shift 100%
- Good Employee Complete all your duties during the Night Shift 99%
- Road Trip Complete the Prologue 91%
- Sacrifice Run out of time 63%
- Don't Look Back The Butcher killed a victim 47%
- Not Grandma! Kill Grandma 43%
- Radar Pick up the Radar 38%
- Payback Make the Butcher retreat 36%
- CFV Stare at a TV for too long... 35%
- Fresh Air Made it to the backyard 32%
- No More Big Brother Disable a security camera 31%
- To The Rescue Unlock a victim's cage 27%
- Bunker Enter the bunker 26%
- Gotcha The Butcher got stuck in a bear trap 25%
- Easy Complete the game on Easy or higher 24%
- Parasite Escape the House 22%
- Medium Complete the game on Medium or higher 20%
- Shortcut Shoot off a doorknob 16%
- The End Escape the Bunker 16%
- Rebirth Complete the Rebirth Ending 15%
- The Powerdrill Massacre Complete the Powerdrill Massacre arcade game 15%
- The New Butcher Kill a victim 14%
- It's Alive Discover the baby's room 14%
- Hero Get a victim to a safe place 13%
- Bad Customer Service Make a customer walk out during the Night Shift 11%
- Smile Take a picture 8.6%
- Hard Complete the game on Hard 6.3%
- Investigator Read all notes (across multiple playthroughs) 5.3%
- Death to CFV Destroy every TV (does not include the Save Room TVs) 5.0%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-20.