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Weird West: Definitive Edition
Give it 15 hours
Gets good by 15h then rated almost like by veterans
Fully opens up by 20h rated like by long-time players
Reach the ending at least 13% of players who started
Started playing 92% of owners
Steam reviews 79% positive of 4,505
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours almost 1 in 2 reviews are negative (40%); after 20h it's 1 in 7 (13%).
- Fully opens up by hour 20.
- At least 13% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “Unforgiven” (Dig up your Bounty Hunter cache and suit up) and “Justice Served” (Complete the Bounty Hunter Journey): from 100% to 40% 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 4,525 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 300 reviews: 24.4h for positive, 9.9h 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 (92.2% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Unforgiven Dig up your Bounty Hunter cache and suit up 100%
- Justice Served Complete the Bounty Hunter Journey Most players quit here 40% −60
- That’s All, Folks Complete the Pigman Journey 26% −14
- For Balance Complete the Protector Journey 19% −6
- Dog Days Complete the Werewolf Journey 15% −4
- Something Wicked This Way Comes… Complete the Oneirist Journey 13% −2
- There is Hope Save the world ≥13%
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 (53)
story milestone ending side
- Unforgiven Dig up your Bounty Hunter cache and suit up 100%
- Self-Improvement Use a Nimp Relic to gain an ability for the first time 80%
- Perky Use a Golden Ace of Spades to gain a perk for the first time 73%
- Let’s Ride Recruit your first follower 70%
- Dead or Alive Turn in your first bounty from the board 65%
- Welcome to the Weird West Kill your first monstrous enemy 63%
- Full House Recruit a full posse 48%
- Off the Trail Complete 10 side quests 45%
- Justice Served Complete the Bounty Hunter Journey 40%
- Dishonored Knock someone out by dropping onto them from above 35%
- Through Their Eyes Recruit a previous Journey Hero to your posse 33%
- The Great Escape Get your spouse out of the quarry without ever alerting Shelby Cross 33%
- Chain Reaction Catch 2 or more enemies in Chain Lightning 32%
- Rain of Death Turn one of your arrows into an elemental arrow 31%
- Scholar Read 50 books 29%
- That’s All, Folks Complete the Pigman Journey 26%
- Winds of War Turn a Tornado into an Elemental Tornado 20%
- Fallen Star Retrieve the fallen Sheriff’s star from the ruins of Boulder Creek mine 20%
- For Balance Complete the Protector Journey 19%
- Turning the Tables Turn Ruth into a Pigwoman 19%
- Workers' Rights Kill Maximo and free the Lantern room’s workers 19%
- Here Comes Santa Claus Break into a building through the chimney 19%
- Elusive Prey Collect a bounty for turning in either Leila, Shelby Cross or Galen Weeks 18%
- Out on the Ebb Tide Take down Shelby Cross in Copper Mountain Quarry 17%
- Dog Days Complete the Werewolf Journey 15%
- Power Behind the Pulpit Read Sybil’s journal 14%
- Something Wicked This Way Comes… Complete the Oneirist Journey 13%
- There is Hope Save the world 13%
- The Philosopher’s Stone Aid Essex Mast on his quest 12%
- Monster Hunter Collect the bounty on a Pigman or Ravenous 11%
- Do Not Pass Go… Serve time in jail 11%
- Loyalty to the Pack Rescue the missing Werewolf 10%
- Mystery Machine Save both innocents in The Strangeness 10%
- Eternity Can Wait Spare Essex Mast at the end of the Oneirist Journey 9.7%
- Knuckle Sandwich Beat the Heathen at her Slap Game 9.3%
- Gold Digger Dig up 10 mound caches 8.4%
- Getting the Gang Back Together Bring all the Journey Heroes back to the Broken Steppe Temple alive 8.0%
- Who You Gonna Call? Complete a quest given by a Ghost 7.9%
- Healing Old Wounds Return Glenn Mills’s rifle to Maryann 7.8%
- This Is Sparta Kick someone off of a rooftop or cliff 6.9%
- What’s in the Box? Return the Heathen’s Box unopened 6.4%
- Ghost Town Turn a settlement into a ghost town 6.3%
- Moondrunk Kill 3 enemies in less than 5 seconds in Wolf form 6.0%
- Lord Inut Sends His Regards Roast a live chicken 5.6%
- I Kicked a Bird and I Liked it Kick a flying Vulture 4.7%
- 'Ma Barker Steal $10,000 worth of goods in a single playthrough 3.6%
- It All Dies End the world 2.6%
- Revenant Start a fight against a bear while drunk… and win 2.5%
- Hog Wild Beat Pigman Joe at a Poker Game 2.3%
- Moon Hunter Turn a Bounty Hunter into a Werewolf 2.1%
- Explorer Locate every Temple of the Ancients 1.8%
- Dirt and Blame Become a Wiindigo 1.7%
- Winter Has Come Collect all 3 of Pigman Joe’s Tour du Weird West souvenir snow globes 1.7%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-19.