ActionAdventure
Eresys
Hooks you right away
Gets good instantly from the first hour
Started playing 72% of owners
Steam reviews 64% positive of 472
What the data shows
- 43% of first-hour reviews are positive — about the same as players with 3+ hours (43%).
- The opening is criticised more than in 80% of games we track.
- 72% 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.
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Based on all 480 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 261 reviews: 4.4h for positive, 1.6h 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 (71.5% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
Story milestones aren't labeled yet; all achievements are listed below.
All achievements (20)
- In Death Get killed by the otherwordly 100%
- Terrors of the deep Succumb to the creatures of the sea 40%
- Broken curse Cleanse the shrine of Innsmouth 30%
- Sanguine ceremony Create 4 accursed blood spheres 29%
- Forbidden knowledge Complete the book of the order 27%
- Fiend in the walls Banish the creature haunting the house near the cliffs 23%
- The shadow below Banish the entity lurking in the depths of the devoured house 18%
- Peace and tranquility Banish the ancient one 14%
- Devoted cultist Collect 25 lost artifacts 14%
- Primordial banishment Feed the primordial being until it ceases to exist 14%
- Axiom of the malignant Witness the reveal of a diety 11%
- Miserable demise Perish in the throne room of the abyssal temple 10%
- Primordial cleansing Purify the depths and destroy the primordial of the pit 6.6%
- Chaos and Destruction Summon the old one 4.2%
- Obscure seals Retrieve the lost seals from Innsmouth 3.8%
- The shadow over Innsmouth Cleanse the shrine of Innsmouth, on mad man difficulty 2.2%
- Magnificent veracity Witness the reveal of a diety, on mad man difficulty 1.1%
- Equanimity Banish the ancient one on a mad man mission 1.0%
- Devastation Summon the old one on a mad man mission 1.0%
- Forsaken relics Retrieve all lost artifacts from the abyssal temple 1.0%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-21.