Blacklight: Retribution
Give it 5 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours almost 1 in 2 reviews are negative (41%); after 10h it's 1 in 6 (17%).
- Fully opens up by hour 10.
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- Only 42% 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 16,374 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 33 reviews: 30.6h for positive, 11.7h 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 (42.2% 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 (25)
story milestone ending side
- Welcome to Blacklight Complete the training level 100%
- Your first time... 1 Kill 68%
- Killing Spree 10 Kills 52%
- Pickup Gamer Play 1 public match 27%
- Death Dealer 100 Kills 26%
- You seem to have dropped this... 1 Enemy Equipment Destroyed 21%
- Joe Frazier the Hell Raiser 50 Melee Attempts 13%
- Weekend Warrior 10 Kills in a hardsuit 10%
- Sapper 1 Enemy Turret Destroyed 9.7%
- Cleaning Crew 10 Enemy Equipments Destroyed 7.1%
- Welcome Back! 1 Revive 7.1%
- Walking Dead Man 1000 Kills 5.9%
- Miracle Max 10 Revives 5.0%
- Juicer 10 Heals 3.8%
- Lost their minds 100 Headshots 3.8%
- Field Medic 100 Heals 2.8%
- Mechanized Warrior 100 Kills in a hardsuit 2.4%
- Are you still there...? 10 Enemy Turrets Destroyed 1.4%
- Necromancer 100 Revives 1.4%
- Dr. Feel Good 1000 Heals 1.2%
- Mechanic 1 Hardsuit Repaired 0.9%
- Boom! Headshot! 10 Headshot with a hardsuit 0.5%
- Weapon of Mass Destruction 1000 Kills in a Hardsuit 0.2%
- Fixer-Upper 1 Barricade Repaired 0.2%
- Holding the Line 1 Turret Repaired 0.2%