Unknown 9: Awakening

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 958 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 263 reviews: 12.3h for positive, 8.3h 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 (46.8% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.

Story milestones aren't labeled yet; all achievements are listed below.

All achievements (38)

• On Your Own Now Complete the first chapter. 100%
• Self-Inflicted Take damage from enemy environmental objects. 97%
• Untouchable In the same encounter, defeat 3 enemies in melee combat without taking damage and without Stepping. 58%
• The Yankee’s Prize Find The Morning Star. 57%
• Killer Instinct Step into an enemy then perform a takedown on them right away. 55%
• Going Dark Cut off communication by destroying all transponders. 48%
• A Score To Settle Face off with your nemesis. 42%
• Fury Unleashed Execute 20 Burst Attacks. 39%
• Out of Body Faze 5 enemies using Umbric attacks. 37%
• Out of Time Find Dr. Matos. 34%
• Fall Out Push or Pull 5 enemies off a cliff. 33%
• Heavy Metal Defeat a Gearhead. 30%
• Weaving The Pattern Unlock all 3 levels of Stepping. 30%
• Revelation The truth reveals itself. 29%
• Better Part of Valor Retreat from 5 different combat events while Shrouded. 29%
• Great Escape Retake The Morning Star. 28%
• Puppeteer Step into 15 enemies without being detected. 28%
• Fallen Warrior Dance with an old friend one last time. 26%
• Shutdown Deactivate 10 machines. 25%
• Skilled Collector Find 50% of items in the Collection menu, excluding the Extractors. 24%
• Ascension Eclipsed Live by the Fold, die by the Fold. 23%
• An Orphan Reborn Complete the last chapter. 23%
• Chess Moves Defeat 3 enemies simultaneously with a single Stepped-in enemy. 21%
• Enemy Within Cause 30 enemies to defeat their own allies with the Stepping Ability. 18%
• Silent Assassin Execute 10 Elite takedowns. 18%
• The Audacity Attempt to Step into the last boss. 17%
• You Got Folded Be defeated in the Fold. 14%
• Pulling Your Punches Perform a Perfect Pull Strike on 10 enemies. 10%
• Young and Reckless Attempt to Step into the boss at every boss fight. 8.8%
• Crack the Code Discover a secret in the Ascendant executive office. 8.3%
• Instill Fear Defeat 10 enemies while Shrouded with Tenacious Shroud. 7.9%
• State of Mind Complete the Umbric Abilities Branch of the skill tree. 7.7%
• Pyrotechnics Push an enemy into a fuel canister while Shrouded. 4.9%
• Tracing The Path Find all Sahin Tiles. 4.3%
• Eagle Eyes Destroy all Extractors. 4.1%
• Wisdom of the Ages Find all Scribings: Tree of Life and The Three Bodies. 3.8%
• Master Collector Complete the Collection Menu, excluding the Extractors. 3.6%
• True Quaestor Unlock all the achievements. 2.8%