My Friendly Neighborhood
Give it 3 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 4 reviews are negative (26%); after 7h it's 1 in 55 (2%).
- Fully opens up by hour 5.
- At least 32% of players who start reach the ending.
- Most players drop off before “A Breath of Fresh Air” (Make your way out of the offices): only 52% 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 3,502 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 298 reviews: 8.4h for positive, 3.4h 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 (90.3% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- A Breath of Fresh Air Make your way out of the offices. Most players quit here 52% −48
- Resurrection Defeat the boss and escape the Unfriendly Neighborhood. ≥32% −20
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 (43)
story milestone ending side
- The Trusty Wrench Find the pipe wrench. 100%
- Learn Your ABCs Find the Stenographer. 98%
- Scratched Find a cheat tape. 90%
- Loquacious Find the Novelist. 71%
- A Powerful Point Find some Punctuations. 60%
- Hospitality Find Ricky's snackeroos. 54%
- A Breath of Fresh Air Make your way out of the offices. 52%
- Looking in the Mirror Gordon helped Pearl. 47%
- Music for Four Hands Gordon helped Arnold. 44%
- Passing Grade Finish the game with a B rank or higher. 44%
- Basic Training Finish the game on Normal difficulty or harder. 44%
- Worn Out Find five cheat tapes. 43%
- A Star of Light Gordon helped Gobblette. 43%
- A Purging Tide Gordon helped Ray. 42%
- A Dog's Best Friend Gordon helped the dogs. 40%
- One More Season Gordon helped the show come back. 33%
- Resurrection Defeat the boss and escape the Unfriendly Neighborhood. 32%
- Treasure Hunt Gain access to Stage 5. 32%
- Pure Rhetorical Power Find the Conclusion. 31%
- Morning A new day dawns. 27%
- Mercy Escape the Unfriendly Neighborhood without defeating the boss. 21%
- It Doesn't Work Waste 20 rounds on Pearl. 16%
- Unfinished Work Gordon left work early. 16%
- First Mission Finish the game on Survival difficulty or harder. 16%
- A Student Finish the game with an A rank or higher. 16%
- Honor Roll Finish the game with an S rank. 14%
- Somewhat Impressive! Finish the game on Normal or harder with an S rank. 14%
- Canceled Yet Again Gordon rejected Ricky's offer. 13%
- Slightly Staggering! Finish the game on Survival or harder with an S rank. 11%
- Soundly Shocking! Finish the game on Veteran or harder with an S rank. 9.3%
- Sugar Rush Reach a max speed of 50MPH. 8.9%
- Simply Stupendous! Finish the game on Unfriendly with an S rank. 7.5%
- Neighborhorde Veteran Unlocked all Neighborhorde stages. 6.4%
- War Hero Finish the game on Veteran difficulty or harder. 6.4%
- Final Mystery Later is now. 5.6%
- Neighborhorde Family Unlocked all Neighborhorde characters. 5.5%
- Reckless Finish the game without saving. 5.5%
- Tapeless Finish the game without using any duct tape. 5.5%
- Streamlined Finish the game without opening the tool chest. 5.2%
- Survivor Finish the game without healing. 5.0%
- Commando Finish the game on Unfriendly difficulty. 4.8%
- Simplicity Finish the game with only the Stenographer. 4.4%
- Cheater's Reward Play with all cheats active. 4.2%