FlatOut 3: Chaos & Destruction
The first 2 hours are a test
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours most reviews are negative (86%); after 5h it's 1 in 2 (63%).
- Fully opens up by hour 5.
- The opening is criticised more than in 100% of games we track.
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- Only 31% 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 4,409 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 286 reviews: 1.6h for positive, 0.5h 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 (31% 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 (45)
story milestone ending side
- Wet wet wet Drive into water. 100%
- First Blood Kill one zombie. 86%
- Monsters! Win a Monstertruck challenge. 70%
- 10x Combo Score a 10 hit combo. 69%
- Bashing! Win a Big Battle Arena match. 59%
- Smashing! Win a normal Battle Arena match. 57%
- Addicted to speed Win on a Speed track. 54%
- Warming up Win a race. 53%
- Hole in one Win a Golf stunt. 51%
- 20x Combo Score a 20 hit combo. 38%
- Connected Play a multiplayer game. 37%
- Trained Be destroyed by a train. 37%
- Hard as a rock Win an Industrial stunt. 32%
- Got it backwards Win on a reversed track. 31%
- Challenge accepted Complete a challenge. 29%
- 30x Combo Score a 30 hit combo. 27%
- Don't give up! Finish a Nightshift race as loser. 24%
- All night long Win a Nightshift race. 24%
- Berserker Win all Big Battle Arenas. 24%
- To hell and back Win a Nightmare stunt. 23%
- Born in the USA Win all Detroit races. 22%
- 40x Combo Score a 40 hit combo. 22%
- Crash! Boom! Bang! Win all normal Battle Arenas. 22%
- Devastator Win all Monstertruck challenges. 21%
- Desert Strike Win all Utah Offroad races. 20%
- 50x Combo Score a 50 hit combo. 20%
- Farmer's Fury Win all Kansas Offroad races. 20%
- The Italian job Win all Rome races. 20%
- 7 million Get a score of 7 million. 19%
- Survival Win all Offroad races. 19%
- Fresh air Win all Outdoor races. 19%
- Skills! Score a 60 hit combo. 19%
- From Vienna with love Win all Vienna races. 19%
- Mine! Win all Uranium Mine races. 18%
- Faster & stronger Win all Speed tracks 18%
- Stunt double Complete all stunts. 18%
- Dock worker Win all Harbor races. 18%
- Streetracer Win all races. 18%
- Insane! Score a 100 hit combo. 17%
- Splatout King Complete all splatout levels. 17%
- Impossible! Score a 150 hit combo. 17%
- Challenger Complete 25 challenges. 17%
- Nightrider Win all Nightshift races. 17%
- Zombie Slaughter Kill 10000 zombies. 16%
- Conquerer Complete all challenges. 16%