Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures
Hooks you almost right away
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 5 reviews are negative (18%); after 5h it's 1 in 16 (6%).
- Fully opens up by hour 5.
- The opening is criticised less than in 76% of games we track.
- 12% of players who start reach the ending.
- Most players drop off before “You call that normal?!” (Beat the game on "Normal" or higher): only 12% of starters get there.
- Only 50% 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 3,195 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 296 reviews: 3.8h for positive, 2.5h 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 (50.1% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- You call that normal?! Beat the game on "Normal" or higher Most players quit here 12% −88
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (19)
story milestone ending side
- ASS! Die 100 times 100%
- Yea... That just happened... Ride the Fire shark 79%
- On the Naughty List for life Kill Santa 79%
- Bottoms up! Drink 100 beers 73%
- NO! YOU LISTEN! Kill Naggi 61%
- That's what friends are for Find all playable characters 31%
- Who the Hell is This Guy? Found Matthew Lentz 21%
- Cheat Enter a cheat code 17%
- Bossman Find Craig 14%
- You call that normal?! Beat the game on "Normal" or higher 12%
- ASSSS!! Die 1000 times 11%
- Who ISN'T in this game? Find all the cameos 6.0%
- Poopy Pickle Find all S*** Pickles 5.6%
- All for 1up and 1up for all! Collect 200 1ups 4.8%
- Old School Playa Beat the game on "Old School" or higher 4.4%
- Trick or Treat, Mothaf***a! Beat the game over Halloween weekend on Normal or Higher difficulty 3.4%
- You've got skill! Beat the game on "Hard as Balls" or higher 2.4%
- Complete Badass Beat the game on "Impossible" or higher 2.0%
- Bow Before the God of Video Games! Beat the game on "YOLO" 2.0%