ActionAdventure
High On Life
Give it 3 hours
Gets good by 3h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 7h rated like by long-time players
Reach the ending 39% of players who started
Started playing 87% of owners
Steam reviews 89% positive of 25,903
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 3 reviews are negative (34%); after 7h it's 1 in 14 (7%).
- Fully opens up by hour 7.
- 39% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “Fallout Doesn't Let You Do This” (Kill Slumsley) and “Cold-Blooded Driller” (Defeat Krubis): from 84% to 68% of starters.
- 87% 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 26,147 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 10.7h for positive, 4.2h 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 (87.3% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- First Bounty Down Defeat 9-Torg. 97% −3
- Fallout Doesn't Let You Do This Kill Slumsley. 84% −13
- Cold-Blooded Driller Defeat Krubis. Most players quit here 68% −16
- G3 Graduation Defeat Douglas. 63% −5
- Who's The Boss? Defeat the Skrendel Brothers. 47% −15
- Hardest Battle In The Game Defeat Dr. Giblets. 44% −3
- Self-Actualization Defeat Nipulon. 40% −4
- Legendary Bounty Hunter Defeat Garmantuous and take down the G3 cartel. 39% −1
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (44)
story milestone ending side
- Bring A Knife to a Gun Fight Obtain Knifey. 100%
- First Bounty Down Defeat 9-Torg. 97%
- We're All Very Impressed, Trust Me Juggle an enemy in the air with at least 5 shots. 86%
- Fallout Doesn't Let You Do This Kill Slumsley. 84%
- Don't Knife The Hand That Feeds Take Knifey's advice and stab Gene in the gut. 72%
- Satisfied Gus-tomer Obtain Gus. 68%
- Cold-Blooded Driller Defeat Krubis. 68%
- Sweezy Like Sunday Morning Obtain Sweezy. 63%
- G3 Graduation Defeat Douglas. 63%
- Eye Scream, You Scream Pop 20 Grunt eyeballs. 60%
- Are You Packin'? Obtain the Jetpack. 56%
- Creature Feature Obtain Creature. 50%
- Who's The Boss? Defeat the Skrendel Brothers. 47%
- RIP Davey Glutes Obtain the Mag-Boots. 46%
- Hardest Battle In The Game Defeat Dr. Giblets. 44%
- Self-Actualization Defeat Nipulon. 40%
- Spent 15 Hours At The Alien Strip Club Spend 15 hours at the very real in-game alien strip club. 40%
- Lezduit! Obtain Lezduit. 39%
- Series Wrap on Suit-O Say goodbye to Suit-O. 39%
- Legendary Bounty Hunter Defeat Garmantuous and take down the G3 cartel. 39%
- Carried Stan's Load To Completion Complete the game with Stan's product in your inventory. 29%
- Eatin' Good in the Neighborhood Pay your bill at Applebee's. 27%
- We Paid For The Rights To Put A Whole Movie In Here Discover the movie theater. 20%
- Gunning For Your Job Use Sweezy to boss around the Office Moplets. 15%
- Playing Favorites Sacrifice a Gatlian other than Kenny during the fight against Garmantuous. 12%
- Sequel-Bait Discover Dr. Gurgula's hideout in the Human Haven. 12%
- Bathe With A Giant Nude Alien Take a bath with Toxxo. 9.4%
- We Came, We Chainsaw, We Conquered Kill a Bloat with Knifey's new upgrade. 8.8%
- Mux Ado About Shipping Defeat Mux. 8.1%
- A Starfish is Born Watch Globo's rise to fame. 5.7%
- Fall In Love With A Parasite Find a way to make love to the Parasite Passenger. 5.5%
- Epic Legendary Prize Sit through the entirety of the really annoying countdown show on TV. 4.8%
- Seeing All The Sights Unlock and explore every collectible warp base. 4.6%
- Playing Card To Get Collect every trading card in the game. 4.1%
- Meet Frasier from Frasier Visit Cheeks and hang out until closing time. 3.3%
- Luglox Genocide Find and open every Luglox chest. 2.6%
- Give Away All Your Money Grant the dying wish of a sick slug. 2.6%
- It's Like The Santa Clause Become the Riddle Master. 2.2%
- That's B.A.L.L., Folks Kill 100 enemies with a fully charged ball shot. 1.8%
- Mods Please Ban Unlock every post in the Bounty Hunter forums. 1.7%
- Cardbored Collect all 9 trading cards on Peroxis and Muxxalon. 1.6%
- See Salt Visit every major Peroxian landmark (and report back to the tour guide!) 1.6%
- Porch Pirate Find every scattered Muxxalon package. 1.4%
- Harper? I Barely Know Her! Kill 50 enemies with Harpers glob shot. 1.4%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-18.