FOREWARNED
Give it 2 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 3 reviews are negative (40%); after 5h it's 1 in 35 (3%).
- Fully opens up by hour 3.
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- Only 63% 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 6,738 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 295 reviews: 9h for positive, 0.9h 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 (62.8% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
This game has no story achievements, so we can't tell where players quit.
All achievements (53)
story milestone ending side
- Pocket Change 100 gold collected. 100%
- Fancy Upgraded a tool. 77%
- Expanding Inventory Purchase a tool for the first time. 66%
- Imhotep's Bane Keep it close. 57%
- Jackal Recovered Yes, it's cursed. 57%
- Ankh of the Covenant Close your eyes! 57%
- Watchful Eye of Ra Now if we could just find the staff... 57%
- Protector of Thebes He won't be happy you've taken this. 57%
- Collector 1000 gold collected. 55%
- This is Not Archaeology Burned a Mummy. 50%
- Mirror Makeover Changed your appearance in the Mirror. 44%
- Mejai's Prey Killed by a Mejai. 44%
- Mortal Return Returned from the afterlife as human. 41%
- Eternal Entombment Became a Mummy. 39%
- Healing Force Used a medkit. 38%
- Not One of Us! Ouphris Banished. 33%
- Dr. Jones 7 relics recovered - wonder what the museum will pay for all of these? 33%
- Can’t Touch This Collected a relic without dying. 32%
- Shadowbanned Talgor Banished. 26%
- Lights Out Necreph Banished. 26%
- Tomb Raider 7 Artifacts collected. 26%
- Can You Hear Me Now? Dekan Banished. 25%
- All Wrapped Up Rathos Banished. 25%
- Abominated Ataimon Banished. 24%
- Tuned Explorer Listened to a different radio station. 21%
- Unearthly Proof Proved the Mejai exist. 16%
- Light Reader 25 Lore pages collected. 15%
- Raider of the Lost Arts 14 Artifacts collected. 15%
- Well Prepared Tutorial Completed. 14%
- Blast Past Destroyed a wall using TNT. 14%
- Mejai's Bane Ptahmes banished. 12%
- First Glyph Transcribed a Lore page. 12%
- Gold Glutton 10,000 gold collected. 11%
- Inventory King Maxed out your inventory slots. 9.7%
- Ushabti Initiate 10 Ushabti collected. 8.0%
- Book Worm 50 Lore pages collected. 7.6%
- Don't Litter Kept your office clean. 6.7%
- Artifact Archon 24 Artifacts collected. 6.1%
- Decipherer's Start Transcribed 10 Lore pages. 5.6%
- Historian 75 Lore pages collected. 4.9%
- Brutal Relic Hunter Collected a Relic on Brutal difficulty. 4.8%
- Point Spender Spent a point in the Points Shop. 4.5%
- Weekly Wonder Completed all weekly challenges during any week. 4.1%
- Loremaster 100 Lore pages collected. 3.5%
- Glyph Guru Transcribed 50 Lore pages. 3.5%
- Ushabti Collector 25 Ushabti collected. 3.5%
- Race Against Time Completed a round with timed mode on. 3.2%
- Lore Legend Transcribed 75 Lore pages. 2.9%
- Scholar Supreme 125 Lore pages collected. 2.2%
- Librarian's Dream 150 Lore pages collected. 1.8%
- Ushabti Master 50 Ushabti collected. 1.4%
- Agony Collected a Relic with the Agony Modifier on. 1.3%
- Archivist Ascendant 170 Lore pages collected. 1.1%