GRIME
Give it 15 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 3 reviews are negative (36%); after 20h it's 1 in 16 (6%).
- Fully opens up by hour 20.
- At least 18% of players who start reach the ending.
- Most players drop off before “Weeper” (Defeat Amalgam): only 71% of starters get there.
- 90% 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 6,869 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 298 reviews: 25.2h for positive, 7.2h 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 (89.7% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Weeper Defeat Amalgam Most players quit here 71% −29
- Silenced Whispers Defeat the Whispering Mothers 44% −27
- Harmless Defeat the Harmless Rockgiant 40% −4
- Celebration Witness the Final Performance 22% −18
- Kinship Get the Kinship ending ≥18% −4
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 (47)
story milestone ending side
- Imprint Activate a Surrogate 100%
- Taste Discover a Trait 96%
- The Hunt Acquire a Hunt Point 88%
- Ravenous Reach 100 Ardor 87%
- Weeper Defeat Amalgam 71%
- Devourer Absorb 100 Prey 48%
- Silenced Whispers Defeat the Whispering Mothers 44%
- Harmless Defeat the Harmless Rockgiant 40%
- Yank Pull down Prey 39%
- Sharpened Vessel Reach Level 30 38%
- Feast Defeat Vulture 33%
- Jawcrab Defeat the Jawcrab 33%
- Jawstag Defeat the Jawstag 30%
- Watcher Defeat the Desert Watcher 27%
- Shapely Defeat Shapely Fidus 26%
- Predator Discover all Prey 25%
- Breathsmith Fully Upgrade a Weapon 24%
- Unwrap the Gift Unlock the Barrier Door 24%
- Proportions Have the final interaction with Yon 23%
- Celebration Witness the Final Performance 22%
- Scion Defeat The Flower Heart 22%
- Assimilation Discover all Traits 20%
- Inevitable Defeat Shidra 19%
- Glare Defeat The Giant of Eyes 19%
- Artisan Defeat the Artisan of Flesh 18%
- Kinship Get the Kinship ending 18%
- Hunt Down Defeat Misbegotten Amalgam 18%
- Hush Defeat the Grieving Rockgiant 16%
- Host Defeat Surrogate Vulture 16%
- Passage Unlock all Nervepasses 16%
- Breath Reach Max Breath Capacity 14%
- All-Seeing Activate all Beacons 14%
- Dream Commune with the Child 13%
- Bloodhunter Acquire all Hunt Points 10%
- Weakness Get the Weakness ending 9.9%
- Kin Commune with Kin 8.8%
- Generous Accept all of the Coda's Gifts 8.5%
- Listen Consume the Listener 8.1%
- Zygote Obtain all Fetal Pearls 6.9%
- Skinmaker Acquire all Outfits 6.4%
- Instruments Acquire all Weapons 6.2%
- Discarded Memento Obtain the Scythesword 6.0%
- Spiral Heart Get all Achievements 4.6%
- Intensify Upgrade a Trait 3 times with Sanguine Ichor 4.5%
- Enrich Upgrade a Weapon 3 times with a Breatheart 4.3%
- The Nightmare Defeat the Dreamborn Terror 4.1%
- Touch of Otherwhere Finish an NG cycle 4.0%