ActionAdventureIndie
HAAK
Give it 20 hours
Gets good by 20h then rated almost like by veterans
Reach the ending at least 25% of players who started
Started playing 90% of owners
Steam reviews 89% positive of 3,561
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 5 reviews are negative (22%); after 20h it's 1 in 25 (4%).
- At least 25% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “Sun is Rising” (Complete [North Station]) and “Gotcha!” (GAEL has kneeled): from 56% to 39% of starters.
- 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 3,582 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 290 reviews: 27h for positive, 10.5h 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 (90% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- He ran away! Defeat Wang Ping in Sanho Ruins 87% −13
- The journey begins Complete [Escape from Ruins] 84% −3
- Can I get a ride? Complete [Road to the South] 70% −15
- Flee on Foot Complete [Pass the Tunnel] 68% −2
- Sun is Rising Complete [North Station] 56% −11
- Gotcha! GAEL has kneeled. Most players quit here 39% −18
- GG Become a puppet of GAEL. ≥25% −14
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 (57)
story milestone ending side
- Fully Charged Obtain a Power Glove 100%
- Hidden Corner Found a hidden item 98%
- Destroyer Destroy 100 bricks 97%
- Scavenger Found a Mystic Disk 96%
- Physics Lesson Squeezed to death 89%
- He ran away! Defeat Wang Ping in Sanho Ruins 87%
- Who's your daddy? Defeat Wang Ping in Sanho Ruins within 3 minutes 87%
- Welcome to Sanho Enter World Map 85%
- The journey begins Complete [Escape from Ruins] 84%
- Beware of the spikes Dropped into the pit of Sanho Ruins 84%
- You need electrotherapy Electrocuted 10 times 81%
- Muscular Guy Fuse a HP slot 80%
- Smells Interesting Use a Bathroom Portal once. 75%
- Treasure Hunter Smashed 10 Big Chests 73%
- Can I get a ride? Complete [Road to the South] 70%
- Feels like Hell Dropped into the acid pool 10 times 69%
- Flee on Foot Complete [Pass the Tunnel] 68%
- Cheapo Change the color of your cape once. 61%
- Super Scavenger Found 10 Mystic Disks 60%
- Sun is Rising Complete [North Station] 56%
- Dash! Dash! Fuse 1 Energy Slot 50%
- Super Plumer Cleaned up all the blocked vents. 49%
- Eye For An Eye Kill 18 Laser Drones 49%
- HP Tank Fuse 5+ HP slots, resulting in 7+ HP slots in total 45%
- Dominate North Station Thoroughly search North Station 44%
- Greed is Good Obtain 4000+ Tongbao in total. 43%
- Supreme Scavenger Find 30 Mysterious Disks. 41%
- Flash Haak Spend less than 8 minutes to escape from Metro Tunnel 40%
- King of Towers Destroy all 4 signal towers. 39%
- View from the Mountaintop Climbed to the top of Anthony Hill. 39%
- Gotcha! GAEL has kneeled. 39%
- Brutal Moment Kill the ooze king. 38%
- Inherit Mantle Baak's chess pawn is now inherited by Haak 37%
- Beware of Attack Dog Bitten to death by dogs 3 times 35%
- Directionally Challenged Stay in North Station for more than 2 hours 34%
- Movie Lover Find 50 Mysterious Disks. 33%
- Brave Haak Brings hope to Good-Hearted Fort. 30%
- Master Decipherer Solved the maze in Momoyama. 29%
- Yes, Master Bring the cat home. 26%
- Good-Hearted Haak Choose to do good in every moral choices. 25%
- GG Become a puppet of GAEL. 25%
- Durable Gamer Achieve 100% exploration. 25%
- Echoes of Iron Chains Defeat the dungeon keeper Chuka 24%
- Intellectual Finish [Sanho Chronicle]. 19%
- Black & White Secret Ending Achieved 17%
- Spotlight Figure Editor-in-chief Ben Dover thought you're really good. 16%
- Love and Pain Read all messages from the dungeon lovers 14%
- Couch Potato Watch TV for over 5 minutes. 13%
- Sequence Breaker Pass through the heavily guarded pathway in the [Brewery] without shutting any of the 4 doors blocking the sight. 11%
- Titanium Lungs Defeat Clawman in [MerlinPit] before putting on the gas mask. 5.1%
- Champion Champ Complete the Champ Challenge one time 4.8%
- Bushido Did not attack the weakened 3Kyo. 4.1%
- Master of Evasion Defeated 3Kyo without getting damaged. 4.0%
- Cherish Life No death until beating Fatty. 4.0%
- Kick Leap from someplace high and you wake up. 3.9%
- Leap of Perfection Reached Sanho' Square without triggering the Metro Tunnel's self-destruct mechanism. 3.8%
- Speedrunner Someone can actually beat the game in 5 hours, wow! 2.8%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-19.