ActionIndieStrategy
Gunpoint
Hooks you almost right away
Gets good by 2h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 3h rated like by long-time players
Reach the ending 62% of players who started
Started playing 74% of owners
Steam reviews 98% positive of 13,331
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 8 reviews are negative (12%); after 4h it's 1 in 95 (1%).
- Fully opens up by hour 3.
- The opening is criticised less than in 87% of games we track.
- 62% of players who start reach the ending.
- Most players drop off before “Case Closed” (Complete the game): only 62% of starters get there.
- 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 13,447 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 4.8h for positive, 1.2h 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 (73.7% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Case Closed Complete the game. Most players quit here 62% −38
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (42)
story milestone ending side
- Ghost Leave no living witnesses to your presence on a mission that has guards. 100%
- Ding Wire an elevator button to trigger something when the elevator arrives. 100%
- Short Circuit Use the Crosslink to create an infinite loop that burns itself out. 89%
- Cat Burglar Use the Dropshot to land silently from a great height. 86%
- So This Is Why People Don't Like Me Get knocked down by an opening door. 85%
- Open Door Policy Knock a guard out by opening a door into him. 78%
- Gentleman Use no violence at all on a mission that has guards. 74%
- I'll Aim When I'm Dead Upgrade your Bullfrog Hypertrousers to pounce instantly. 73%
- I May Be Some Time Upgrade your Bullfrog Hypertrousers to maximum jump strength. 71%
- Rooke Sympathiser Steal Gessler's technology for Rooke. 67%
- Cover Up Conceal your presence at the DataSec break-in from Mayfield. 64%
- Breaking And Entering Use the Gatecrashers to kick a door off its hinges. 64%
- Low Flying Doors Use the Gatecrashers to kick a door into a guard. 63%
- Case Closed Complete the game. 62%
- Title Finally Relevant Help justify my early, not entirely wise choice of game name by holding someone at gunpoint with the Resolver. 61%
- On The QT Use the Hushcracker to jump through a window silently (outside of the test lab). 58%
- Might As Well Have An Achievement For That Too Use the Gatecrashers to kick a door through a window. 55%
- Case Filed Publish your personalised epilogue. 55%
- Alright, Have One! Just Stop! This is an achievement in name only. No-one admires you for punching a guy that many times. 54%
- Perfect Gentleman Complete a mission that has guards with no violence, witnesses or loud noises. 53%
- Clean Record Complete the police chief's missions without incriminating yourself. 48%
- Payback Catch a guilty man at the expense of freeing an innocent one. 46%
- Necessary Force Jump into an Enforcer to knock him through a window. 39%
- Knuckle Down Knock Fritz Gessler out with a punch. 36%
- Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Shoot Fritz Gessler. 33%
- Coming Clean Voluntarily tell Katie the truth. 32%
- Let It Go Free an innocent man at the expense of catching a guilty one. 29%
- Acknowledged Ludonarrative Dissonance Notice the story doesn't necessarily gel with the mechanics. Become qualified games journalist. 28%
- Sorry, Were You Using That? Kick Fritz Gessler's office door into him. 26%
- Crossfire Use the Longshot to make a guard unintentionally shoot another (outside of the test lab). 26%
- I Am Better At This Than Tom Francis Complete a mission faster than I can. 25%
- Not Really A Prank, Man Use the Prankspasm to knock out someone who isn't standing near a power socket (outside of the test lab). 24%
- I Taste Battery Acid Upgrade your battery capacity to the non-figurative max. 24%
- Intex Sympathiser Tell Gessler that Rooke's hired you to betray him. 21%
- I Just Really Don't Like Gessler Beat Fritz Gessler to death. 21%
- Not Worth The Bullet Intimidate Fritz Gessler into surrendering. 20%
- Those Intex Models Jam Defeat Gessler by rewiring his gun. 17%
- Mission Architect Create a custom mission with at least one objective. 13%
- Hammerhead Snark Mock the chief of police at a critical moment. 13%
- Almost Honest Chicken out of telling Katie the truth at the last minute. 13%
- Seven Story Takedown Knock Fritz Gessler out of his office window. 11%
- Works Both Ways Slam Fritz Gessler's office door into him. 6.8%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-18.