Death Trash
Hooks you almost right away
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 7 reviews are negative (15%); after 5h it's 1 in 14 (7%).
- Fully opens up by hour 5.
- The opening is criticised less than in 83% of games we track.
- At least 2% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “Fully Integrated” (Welcome to the sun) and “Fortune Hunter” (Help Custer collect the core): from 100% to 58% of starters.
- 86% 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 3,762 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 298 reviews: 10.7h for positive, 6.2h 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 (85.5% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Fully Integrated Welcome to the sun 100%
- Fortune Hunter Help Custer collect the core Most players quit here 58% −42
- Another Reality Enter a Cyberwomb 39% −19
- Workshop Master Defeat the Giant Basher 20% −18
- Flesh Crater Survivor Defeat Glutt 18% −2
- Welcome to the City Enter the Perished City 3% −15
- Musing around Decide about the Muse's fate ≥2% −1
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 (28)
story milestone ending side
- Fully Integrated Welcome to the sun 100%
- Flesh And Bits Get blown to pieces 68%
- Fortune Hunter Help Custer collect the core 58%
- Heightened Senses Reach level 5 49%
- Another Reality Enter a Cyberwomb 39%
- Lost And Blind Get the eyes for the blind man 28%
- A Heart Of Meat Finish the pilgrimage and help with the missing heart 25%
- Exploring Nexus Visit 20 or more locations 25%
- Transhumanism Fill all implant slots 21%
- Workshop Master Defeat the Giant Basher 20%
- Flesh Crater Survivor Defeat Glutt 18%
- Friend Find a friend for the big guy 8.0%
- Puke Extravaganza Have 5 or more characters puke at the same time 5.8%
- Welcome to the City Enter the Perished City 2.9%
- Tick-Tock Place a grenade in someone’s bag 1.9%
- Musing around Decide about the Muse's fate 1.9%
- Heptarch's Memorabilia Get an engram of a Heptarch 1.4%
- Electric Trash Digger Defeat the Electric Eye 1.4%
- The Prospering City Decide about the fate of the Perished City 1.3%
- Taking one for the team Let Artus make the sacrifice 0.8%
- Sentimental Overload Share at least four memories with the Seneschal 0.6%
- Iron Will Defeat a boss on Hard Difficulty during a Permadeath run 0.6%
- David against Goliath Kill a Fleshrunner while being a worm 0.4%
- Tiptoeing around Sneak through the Factory undetected 0.2%
- Keep 'em coming Survive all waves during the Virtual Combat Exercise 0.2%
- Solo Rebel Overcome the Perished City administration while not siding with a faction 0.2%
- Calm Down Overcome the spikes in the Temple Dungeon via throwing some meat 0.1%
- I ain't got time to bleed Try blocking a rocket 0.1%