ActionAdventure
Dead Space
Give it 3 hours
Gets good by 3h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 10h rated like by long-time players
Reach the ending 44% of players who started
Started playing 75% of owners
Steam reviews 91% positive of 72,001
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 3 reviews are negative (33%); after 10h it's 1 in 20 (5%).
- Fully opens up by hour 10.
- 44% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “Welcome Aboard” (Complete Chapter 1 on any difficulty setting) and “Lab Rat” (Complete Chapter 2 on any difficulty setting): from 88% to 74% of starters.
- 74% 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 72,556 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 16.6h for positive, 6.8h 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 (74.5% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Welcome Aboard Complete Chapter 1 on any difficulty setting. 89% −11
- Lab Rat Complete Chapter 2 on any difficulty setting. Most players quit here 74% −14
- All Systems Go Complete Chapter 3 on any difficulty setting. 64% −10
- Cannon Fodder Complete Chapter 4 on any difficulty setting. 60% −4
- True Believer Complete Chapter 5 on any difficulty setting. 57% −4
- Greenhouse Effect Complete Chapter 6 on any difficulty setting. 53% −4
- S.O.S. Complete Chapter 7 on any difficulty setting. 49% −4
- Strange Transmissions Complete Chapter 8 on any difficulty setting. 48% −2
- Wreckage Complete Chapter 9 on any difficulty setting. 47% −1
- Keeper of the Faith Complete Chapter 10 on any difficulty setting. 45% −1
- Betrayed Complete Chapter 11 on any difficulty setting. 44% −1
- Exodus Complete Chapter 12 on any difficulty setting. 44% −1
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (47)
story milestone ending side
- Marksman Dismember 50 Limbs. 100%
- Welcome Aboard Complete Chapter 1 on any difficulty setting. 89%
- Lab Rat Complete Chapter 2 on any difficulty setting. 74%
- All Systems Go Complete Chapter 3 on any difficulty setting. 64%
- Brute Force Kill a Brute. 63%
- Cannon Fodder Complete Chapter 4 on any difficulty setting. 60%
- Raise The Stakes Pin an enemy. 59%
- True Believer Complete Chapter 5 on any difficulty setting. 57%
- Story Teller Collect 75 Logs. 56%
- Surgeon Dismember 500 Limbs. 54%
- Autofire Kill 30 enemies with the Pulse Rifle. 53%
- Greenhouse Effect Complete Chapter 6 on any difficulty setting. 53%
- Exterminator Kill the Leviathan. 53%
- Freeze Use Stasis on 50 enemies. 52%
- S.O.S. Complete Chapter 7 on any difficulty setting. 49%
- Strange Transmissions Complete Chapter 8 on any difficulty setting. 48%
- Get Off My Ship! Kill the Leviathan Remnant. 48%
- Wreckage Complete Chapter 9 on any difficulty setting. 47%
- Full Arsenal Own every weapon in the game. 46%
- Keeper of the Faith Complete Chapter 10 on any difficulty setting. 45%
- Betrayed Complete Chapter 11 on any difficulty setting. 44%
- Live with the Hot Ones Kill 30 enemies with the Flamethrower. 44%
- Exodus Complete Chapter 12 on any difficulty setting. 44%
- Mindless Prey Kill the Hive Mind. 44%
- Legend Teller Collect 150 Logs. 43%
- There's Always Peng! Find the Peng Treasure. 42%
- Front Toward Enemy Survive the Shooting Gallery. 38%
- Set A Benchmark Complete the game on Medium difficulty or above. 37%
- A Cut Above Kill 30 enemies with the Ripper. 35%
- Whole Again Pursue Nicole's investigation. 34%
- Z-Baller Complete Level 6 in Zero-G Basketball. 30%
- Final Regeneration Discover the Hunter's origins. 30%
- Full Clearance Create the Master Security Override. 29%
- Full Contact Kill 30 enemies with the Contact Beam. 28%
- Pack Rat Place 25 items in Storage. 24%
- Pusher Kill 30 enemies with the Force Gun. 24%
- Backbreaker Kill 10 enemies with a stomp attack. 19%
- Eviscerator Kill 30 enemies with the Line Gun. 19%
- Marked Pick up a Marker fragment for the first time. 19%
- Wishbone Rip off a dangling limb using Kinesis. 13%
- Built To Order Install every weapon upgrade. 9.4%
- Merchant Collect all Schematics. 8.3%
- Trusted Contractor Complete New Game Plus on any difficulty mode. 7.9%
- One Gun Beat the game using only the Plasma Cutter. 5.9%
- Maxed Out Fully upgrade all weapons and equipment. 5.9%
- Reunion See the alternative ending on any difficulty mode. 5.8%
- Untouchable Complete the game in Impossible Mode. 4.8%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-18.