Permafrost
Give it 3 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (47%); after 7h it's 1 in 4 (24%).
- 14% of players who start reach the ending.
- Most players drop off before “The End” (Complete the main storyline): only 14% of starters get there.
- 93% 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 2,247 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 296 reviews: 17.1h 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 (93.3% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- The End Complete the main storyline. Most players quit here 14% −86
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (42)
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- Tool Time Craft your first tool. 100%
- Schematic Starter Unlock the first recipe in the blueprint tree. 97%
- Smash It! Break a destructible object. 96%
- Locksmith Open a lock. 95%
- Spark of Life Start a fire for the first time. 94%
- Survivor Survive a full day without dying. 90%
- Sausage for the Dog Pet the dog. 84%
- Disposable Use an item until it breaks. 62%
- Cold Resistance Spend over 300 seconds in a cold zone. 56%
- First Steps Experience your first death. 56%
- Leap of Fail Die from falling from a great height. Maybe try a haystack next time? 44%
- Architect Construct 100 structures. 35%
- Cultist Slayer Kill 20 Moon Cultists. 32%
- Memory Collector Collect 10 recordings. 30%
- Party Time Get Wasted. 30%
- Jack of All Trades Achieve level 10 (or higher) in 5 Different Skills. 29%
- Scavenger Loot 100 containers. 29%
- Station Specialist Learn Tailoring Bench, Disassembly Bench and Weapons Bench Recipes. 27%
- Explorer Walk 31 miles on foot. 23%
- Ally Find the Runners Faction Camp. 19%
- Mineralogist Collect Moonrock. 16%
- Overheated Reach a body temperature over 104°F. 16%
- Hell Runner Complete White Hell without equipping the Lunar Armor. 14%
- The End Complete the main storyline. 14%
- Master of One Reach level 20 in any skill. 14%
- S.O.S. Shoot with a flare gun. 13%
- Lumberjack Cut down 100 trees. 12%
- Connoisseur’s Bargain Sell a bottle of rare whiskey to a trader. 11%
- Hunter’s Prize Find a Volkodav's Rifle. 10%
- Trapper Catch a rabbit using a trap. 10%
- Crafting Enthusiast Craft 300 items. 8.5%
- Archer Kill an animal using a bow from over 55 yards. 7.5%
- Recycler Disassemble 300 items. 7.3%
- Heads Up Pick up the lost wife’s head. 5.9%
- Pain Threshold Reach level 5 in the Toughness skill. 4.7%
- Sharpshooter Shoot 1,000 projectiles. 4.6%
- Handyman Repair 50 items. 3.5%
- Killing Spree Kill 5 enemies in 15 seconds. 3.2%
- Unlucky Duo Simultaneously have parasites and be drunk. 2.1%
- Wealthy Collect over 10,000 cash. 2.1%
- Cartographer Discover the Woods, House Camp and the Urban District. 1.7%
- The Hell Has Frozen Complete the main story with the Temperature Around Player modifier set to minimum in the difficulty settings. 1.7%