ActionAdventureIndieSimulationUtilities
DSX
The first 3 hours are a test
Gets good by 3h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 20h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 52% of owners
Steam reviews 70% positive of 9,026
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (60%); after 20h it's 1 in 5 (22%).
- Fully opens up by hour 20.
- The opening is criticised more than in 89% of games we track.
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- Only 52% 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 9,075 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 298 reviews: 51.5h for positive, 19.9h 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 (51.9% 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 (35)
story milestone ending side
- Pad Pair Connect a Controller to DSX for the first time. 100%
- Virtual Box Activate Virtual Xbox emulation for the first time. 98%
- Button Newbie Achieve 100 button presses. Every journey begins with a single click! 91%
- Virtual Station Activate Virtual DualShock or DualSense for the first time. 88%
- Button Rookie Achieve 500 button presses. You're gaining experience, don’t lose steam! 84%
- Light Bar Bright Apply any of the LED modes available. 81%
- Button Master Reach a total of 1,000 button presses across all buttons combined. Your fingers are unstoppable! 81%
- Double Vision View your installed game list. 66%
- Button Virtuoso Achieve a total of 10,000 button presses. You're getting the hang of this! 60%
- Close One If Controller is 0%-10% battery and you connect it to power. 56%
- Button Maestro Reach 50,000 button presses. Your skill and dedication are impressive! 38%
- Dead Begone Apply deadzones to either Triggers or Joysticks. 35%
- Button Prodigy Hit a total of 100,000 button presses. Your expertise is unmatched! 27%
- Multi-Pad Pair Connect more than one controller to DSX for the first time. 26%
- DSX Anniversary Run DSX on DSX's release date anniversary (June 24th). 25%
- Feel the Buzz Use any of the available Haptic Feedback modes. 25%
- Game On Launch a game from DSX. Dive into the action directly from your customized setup! 21%
- Lights Out Set the Light Bar brightness to 0%. 16%
- My Style Create your first Controller Profile. 16%
- Show Me Your Motivation! Now I’m a little…Motivated. 16%
- Button Architect Remap any controller button. 11%
- Button Legend Reach an astounding 500,000 button presses. Your perseverance is legendary! 8.3%
- Disco Time! Set Multi Color LED mode to max cycle speed. 8.1%
- Trigger Happy Try out all Adaptive Trigger modes. 5.8%
- Keymaster Map any controller button into a keyboard button. 5.6%
- Not Enough Configs Create more than three Controller Profiles. 5.6%
- My Style Duplicate Duplicate a controller profile for adjustment. 4.8%
- Button Titan Achieve a monumental 1,000,000 button presses. You are the ultimate button pressing champion! 4.0%
- Shortcut Master Map any controller button into a shortcut action. 3.7%
- Mouse Mapper Map any controller button into a mouse button. 3.3%
- 100% Nerd Look through all the libs used in DSX. 2.9%
- Full Cycle Open DSX Steam page through DSX. 2.5%
- Professional logger Read all the available logs. 2.5%
- Go back to your roots Enter the secret sequence on your controller. 1.9%
- Jackpot! Dance through four forms and mark them all. Only then do you earn…Jackpot! 0.6%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-19.