Adventure
Blacksad: Under the Skin
Give it 7 hours
Gets good by 7h then rated almost like by veterans
Fully opens up by 10h rated like by long-time players
Reach the ending 38% of players who started
Started playing 92% of owners
Steam reviews 83% positive of 7,008
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (66%); after 10h it's 1 in 13 (8%).
- Fully opens up by hour 10.
- The opening is criticised more than in 93% of games we track.
- 38% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “Hitting a brick wall” and “Heavily armed” (Find your most valuable tool): from 100% to 75% of starters.
- 92% 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 7,053 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 300 reviews: 12h for positive, 3.2h 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 (91.6% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Hitting a brick wall Take your first beating (spoiler: it won't be the last!). 100%
- Heavily armed Find your most valuable tool. Most players quit here 75% −25
- Wrong answer Take your second beating. 72% −3
- Civil disobedience Take a ride with the city's most honest bookmarker. 54% −19
- One Mississippi Take your third beating. 52% −1
- Shadow play Take your fourth beating. 47% −5
- Vertigo Take your fifth beating. 42% −5
- Back to normal Take your sixth beating. 39% −3
- Congrats! Solve the case. 39%
- Case solved Now for real. 38% −1
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (39)
story milestone ending side
- Hitting a brick wall Take your first beating (spoiler: it won't be the last!). 100%
- Heavily armed Find your most valuable tool. 75%
- Wrong answer Take your second beating. 72%
- Civil disobedience Take a ride with the city's most honest bookmarker. 54%
- One Mississippi Take your third beating. 52%
- Morley's Buy a box of cigarettes from the nursing staff. 51%
- Shadow play Take your fourth beating. 47%
- Bluffing Put your acting skills to the test. 44%
- Vertigo Take your fifth beating. 42%
- Strike one Play baseball. 41%
- Shield Beat someone up for once. 40%
- Back to normal Take your sixth beating. 39%
- Congrats! Solve the case. 39%
- Case solved Now for real. 38%
- America's Pussycat Charm Helen Moore into giving you a present. 32%
- When angels fall... Complete Blacksad's silence conveniently. 29%
- Extra time Get hired twice for the same case. 24%
- Bad cop Play bad cop convincingly. 23%
- Niagara Falls Help the Colberts live a second honeymoon and receive their gratitude. 23%
- Billy Sorrows' Reading Club Interact with as many books as you can. 21%
- Good samaritan Buy your favorite goat a second burger. 19%
- The Quiet Lynx Why's that poster in Dunn's flat? 16%
- The sweetest story in the whole wide world Do not scare Brunhilda while telling her a story. 15%
- Good cop Play good cop convincingly. 15%
- Zero tolerance Stand up to Quince as many times as you can. 11%
- The 400 Blows Take 400 nightstick blows. Maybe a few less. 8.8%
- Smart aleck Complete all deductions in the game. 7.9%
- Refusal of the call Do not take the case. 7.6%
- Say no to bullying Stand up to Sam as many times as you can. 7.5%
- Nine lives Complete the game dying less than 9 times. 5.9%
- Not a detective Find all false endings in the game. 2.3%
- The Reaper Contribute to as many deaths as possible. 2.3%
- Immortal Complete the game without dying a single time. 2.2%
- Slap Shot Complete the Hockey sheet of the Hall of Fame album. 2.0%
- Any Given Sunday Complete the Football sheet of the Hall of Fame album. 2.0%
- Raging Cat Complete the Boxing sheet of the Hall of Fame album. 2.0%
- The Natural Complete the Baseball sheet of the Hall of Fame album. 2.0%
- Sports Illustrated Complete the Hall of Fame album. 1.9%
- The End(s) Watch all 6 alternate scenes at the end of the game. 1.9%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-19.