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Primal Fears
Hooks you right away
Gets good instantly from the first hour
Started playing 84% of owners
Steam reviews 58% positive of 310
What the data shows
- 45% of first-hour reviews are positive — about the same as players with 3+ hours (45%).
- The opening is criticised more than in 80% of games we track.
- Few early reviews, so this is a rough estimate.
- 84% 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 313 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 291 reviews: 2.2h for positive, 1h 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 (84.3% 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 (29)
- Bonus 10 Bonus multiplier reached 10 100%
- News Find one newspaper 93%
- Bonus 50 Bonus multiplier reached 50 69%
- 10 Kills Kill 10 creatures 56%
- 100 Kills Kill 100 creatures 55%
- Bonus 100 Bonus multiplier reached 100 55%
- Hospital Finish the map Hospital 54%
- Time Limit Finish a mission within time limit 40%
- Suburb Finish the map Suburb 32%
- News 5 Find five different newspapers 27%
- Bonus 200 Bonus multiplier reached 200 25%
- Police Station Finish the map Police Station 19%
- 1000 Kills Kill 1000 creatures 18%
- Sewer Finish the map Sewer 13%
- Mall Finish the map Mall 11%
- News 12 Find 12 different newspapers 10%
- Laboratory - Secret Entrance Finish the map Laboratory - Secret Entrance 10%
- Still Alive! Finish a mission in difficulty hard without being killed 9.7%
- Laboratory Finish the map Laboratory 9.5%
- Easy Finish all missions in easy 8.2%
- Moneypacks Pickup 100 moneypacks 7.1%
- Normal Finish all missions in normal 6.8%
- All Weapons Purchase all weapons in the campaign 6.4%
- News 21 Find all newspapers 5.2%
- 5000 Kills Kill 5000 creatures 5.1%
- Hard Finish all missions in hard 4.9%
- Insane Finish all missions in insane 4.7%
- 10000 Kills Kill 10000 creatures 4.5%
- 15000 Kills Kill 15000 creatures 4.4%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-21.