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Burnout™ Paradise Remastered
The first 3 hours are a test
Gets good by 3h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Reach the ending 14% of players who started
Started playing 68% of owners
Steam reviews 63% positive of 8,697
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (66%); after 3h it's 1 in 7 (15%).
- The opening is criticised more than in 94% of games we track.
- 14% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “Bottom of the Class” (Get your D class license) and “Underachiever” (Get your C Class License): from 80% to 51% of starters.
- Only 68% of owners have even the first achievement — the rest barely played.
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 8,771 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 297 reviews: 7.5h for positive, 0.5h 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 (67.9% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Bottom of the Class Get your D class license 80% −20
- Underachiever Get your C Class License Most players quit here 51% −29
- Must Try Harder Get your B Class License 35% −16
- Flying Colours Get your A Class License 23% −12
- Paradise Won Win your Burnout Driving License 14% −8
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (56)
story milestone ending side
- Lookin' Good Repair your first wrecked car 100%
- Bottom of the Class Get your D class license 80%
- Great Start Win a Race 76%
- Misdemeanor Collect 5 Billboards 68%
- Off the Beaten Path Collect 25 Smashes 67%
- Learning to Fly Successfully land 5 Superjumps 59%
- Underachiever Get your C Class License 51%
- Duckin' and Weavin' Win a Marked Man without being taken down 49%
- Perfect Rage Get 10 Takedowns in Road Rage without Wrecking 43%
- Rampage! Get a Takedown Rampage 41%
- Watt? Set a Time Road Rule on Watt St 35%
- Must Try Harder Get your B Class License 35%
- Rising From the Ashes Repair your car at critical damage in a Road Rage event 25%
- Flying Colours Get your A Class License 23%
- Smash n' Grab Collect 20 Island Smashes 18%
- Just for Pics Make your first online Rival 17%
- Paradise Won Win your Burnout Driving License 14%
- Island Explorer Find all 15 Island events 13%
- Surf Boards Collect 15 Island Billboards 12%
- It's Showtime Set a Showtime Road Rule on East Crawford Drive 11%
- Spinnin' Around Perform a 360 Flatspin in any car 10%
- Daredevil Land a 2 barrel roll jump 10%
- Online Racer Complete an online race 10%
- Crash TV Air Time Land the Mega Jump from the Crash TV Ski Jump with at least 4.5 seconds of Air Time 10%
- Supercharged Win 25 Burning Routes 10%
- Join the Party Complete 1 online Challenge (Timed & Bike challenges do not count) 9.9%
- Car in a China Shop Get 500 Takedowns (either online or offline) 9.4%
- Explorer Find all Events 8.5%
- Millionaires' Club Score over 1,000,000 in Stunt Run 8.4%
- Shopaholic Find all Drive Thrus and Car Parks 6.6%
- All Pimped Out Win all Burning Routes 6.2%
- Paid and Displayed Find all Carparks 6.0%
- Elite Win your Burnout Elite License 5.6%
- The Show Must Go On Get a x10 multiplier in Showtime 5.2%
- Parallel Park Power Park with a 100% rating 5.2%
- Bustin' Out Collect all Billboards 5.0%
- Golden Awarded for delivering the Gold to your team base in a Cops and Robbers game 5.0%
- Totally Smashed Collect all Smashes 4.9%
- Flying High Successfully land all Superjumps 4.9%
- Speed King Set a Time Road Rule on every road 4.9%
- Party Crasher Complete 25 online Challenges (Timed & Bike challenges do not count) 4.9%
- People Person Awarded when you complete all 10 Island Freeburn Challenges (2 - 8 players) 4.6%
- Perfect Party Game Complete a Party game where every player scores in every round 4.4%
- The Right Side of the Law Awarded for being on the winning Cops team in a Cops and Robbers game 4.3%
- Boosting Around the World Get a x20 Boost Chain 4.1%
- Crashin' All Over The World Set a Showtime Road Rule on every road 3.7%
- Criterion Elite Get your Elite License, win every event, find all discoverables and beat every Road Rule 3.5%
- Party Animal Complete 250 online Challenges (Timed & Bike challenges do not count) 3.4%
- The Gang Is Back In Town Awarded for being on the winning Robbers team in a Cops and Robbers game 3.4%
- Online and Kicking Complete 20 online Events 2.9%
- Online Champion Win 10 online Races 2.8%
- Firestarter Make 50 online Rivals 2.7%
- Burnout Skills In an 8 player online Freeburn lead 6 of the Today's Best Scores (6/11 for Cars) (6/6 for Bikes) 2.7%
- Massive Party Game Complete a party game of 8 rounds with 8 players 2.7%
- First Win Win your first 8 player online race 2.5%
- Block Party Complete 2 whole sections of online Challenges (Timed & Bike challenges are not required to be finished) 2.5%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-19.