Hammerwatch
Give it 5 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 3 reviews are negative (32%); after 10h it's 1 in 25 (4%).
- Fully opens up by hour 10.
- At least 12% of players who start reach the ending.
- Only 54% 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 6,406 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 14.3h for positive, 4.6h 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 (53.7% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Temple of the Sun Complete the Temple campaign ≥12% −88
story milestone ending (most common ending) biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (38)
story milestone ending side
- Mass murder Kill 2,500 enemies in the campaign 100%
- Affluent Get 10,000 coins in the campaign 98%
- The Queen Kill the Queen on medium difficulty without having any crutches enabled 57%
- The Grisly Combination Solve it like it was E1M4 52%
- The Knight Kill the Knight on medium difficulty without having any crutches enabled 37%
- Rich Get 100,000 coins in the campaign 37%
- Harvesting Find the first easter egg 29%
- The Lich Kill the Lich on medium difficulty without having any crutches enabled 26%
- Midway Air-walk between the start and the end! 21%
- The Dragon Kill the Dragon on medium difficulty without having any crutches enabled 21%
- Massacre Kill 25,000 enemies in the campaign 20%
- Combo Killer! Get combo kills until you reach 200 16%
- The Heist Find the second easter egg 15%
- Do it like Jones It was better in the movie 14%
- Earth & Void Find the third easter egg 12%
- Desert Zone... ...is far away from the Green Hill Zone 12%
- Temple of the Sun Complete the Temple campaign 12%
- The Dune Sharks Kill the Dune Sharks on medium difficulty without having any crutches enabled 11%
- Pyramid of Fear Enter and exit the Pyramid of Fear 8.4%
- The Hard Queen Kill the Queen on hard difficulty without having any crutches enabled 8.0%
- The Frost Sorcerer Kill Krilith on medium difficulty without having any crutches enabled 7.6%
- Doomed Space Marine Find the fourth easter egg 7.3%
- Survivalist Survive the castle collapsing 7.3%
- The Sun Guardian Kill Sha'Rand on medium difficulty without having any crutches enabled 6.5%
- Serious Pickup Seriously?! That's what I got? 6.0%
- Worse than Ghost and Goblins Fail, where they fail: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IAVCdu_DDs#t=467 5.2%
- The Hard Knight Kill the Knight on hard difficulty without having any crutches enabled 5.2%
- The Hard Lich Kill the Lich on hard difficulty without having any crutches enabled 3.9%
- Full House Beat both the Castle Hammerwatch and the Temple of the Sun campaigns 3.7%
- The Hard Dragon Kill the Dragon on hard difficulty without having any crutches enabled 3.5%
- Combo Master! Get combo kills until you reach 1000 2.8%
- The Hard Dune Sharks Kill the Dune Sharks on hard difficulty without having any crutches enabled 2.6%
- The Hard Frost Sorcerer Kill Krilith on hard difficulty without having any crutches enabled 2.0%
- The Hard Sun Guardian Kill Sha'Rand on hard difficulty without having any crutches enabled 1.9%
- Millionaire Get 1,000,000 coins in the campaign 1.7%
- Crystal Lich Kill the Crystal Lich in the survival level on medium difficulty without having any crutches enabled 1.5%
- Genocide Kill 250,000 enemies in the campaign 1.3%
- Hard Crystal Lich Kill the Crystal Lich in the survival level on hard difficulty without having any crutches enabled 1.1%