ActionAdventureCasualIndieStrategy
Pacify
Give it 3 hours
Gets good by 3h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Reach the ending 29% of players who started
Started playing 77% of owners
Steam reviews 86% positive of 42,851
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 4 reviews are negative (26%); after 3h it's 1 in 14 (7%).
- 29% of players who start reach the ending.
- Most players drop off before “Pacify Her” (Give the girl a doll when she is a monster): only 29% of starters get there.
- 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.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 43,482 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 298 reviews: 4.3h for positive, 1.4h 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% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Pacify Her Give the girl a doll when she is a monster. Most players quit here 29% −71
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
- You are a doll. Get attacked by the girl. 100%
- Burn a Doll Burn a darkness doll in the boiler. 76%
- Start a fire! Start a fire in the boiler. 71%
- Cooped up on the farm! Play on the farm in cooperative mode. 64%
- Revive yourself Burn yourself in the boiler and become normal again. 62%
- Chicken Hunter Knockout a chicken on the farm. 57%
- Fill it up Use the water trough on the farm. 50%
- Seasoned Chicken Dunk a chicken in the poisoned water. 48%
- Win with Friends Win the game in cooperative mode. 47%
- Poison the Water Use a bag of poison in the trough on the farm. 46%
- Work From Home Find the witch's lair. 40%
- Poor Puppy Snip off the tail of a puppy. 39%
- Magical Windmill Get revived in the windmill. 38%
- Explore The Creepy Woods Together Play in the woods in cooperative mode. 37%
- Witch's Brew Combine the ingredients in the cauldron. 34%
- Release The Power Impale an enchanted doll of twigs. 33%
- Pacify Her Give the girl a doll when she is a monster. 29%
- Wrong Doll Burn a Pacify doll in the boiler. 29%
- Power it up Place a charged battery in a battery socket. 20%
- Yummy Chicken Feed the farm monster a chicken. 19%
- Save a friend Give the girl a pacify doll while she is attacking a player. 17%
- Capture The Witch! Weaken the witch and bring her to the van in the woods. 17%
- Weaken The Monster Feed the farm monster a poisoned chicken. 17%
- Bully Push someone down in player versus player. 16%
- Charge it Charge a battery to full. 16%
- Key Master Collect all keys in single player or cooperative mode. 14%
- Heavy Load Pick up the farm monster with the wheel barrow. 14%
- Farm Solo Dare to play on the farm alone. 7.8%
- Creepy Experience Solve the haunted simulation. 7.0%
- Self Destruct Run out of time during the self destruct sequence. 6.4%
- Free For All Farm Play on the farm in player versus player mode. 5.1%
- Release The Children's Spirits Find a way to release the children's spirits captured by the witch in the woods. 4.9%
- Burn the girl Toss the girl into the fire! 4.7%
- Bull's Eye Get a bullseye on the dart board. 4.5%
- Don't Do That Let a monster out of its cell, yourself. 3.5%
- Destroy the competition. Win the game in player versus player mode. 2.9%
- Only You And The Witch Be fearless and play in the woods all alone. 2.9%
- Key Hoarder Hold all the keys at once in player versus player mode. 1.9%
- Get back in there! Power the Lesser Containment Unit. 1.6%
- Rusty Old Locks Break open all of the locks on the farm. 1.6%
- Who Cares About The Team Play in the woods in player versus player mode. 1.4%
- One Man Team Win the game in single player mode. 1.2%
- Beat the game developer Win a single player session in under 20 minutes. 1.0%
- Interesting Story Read all of the notes on the farm. 1.0%
- I love lore! Read all notes. 1.0%
- Beat the Game Developer II Win a single player session on the farm in under 30 minutes. 0.9%
- Welcome to PAH HQ Help at the headquarters during the power outage in cooperative mode. 0.9%
- Bye! You and the entities escape the headquarters. 0.8%
- Notes From a Lost Child Read all of the notes from the lost child in the woods. 0.8%
- Beat the Game Developer III Win a single player session in the woods in under 20 minutes. 0.6%
- You Can Do It! Take on the headquarters during the power outage all by yourself. 0.3%
- Invincible Don't get hurt once, while keeping the headquarters safe. 0.3%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-18.