ActionAdventure
Watch_Dogs™
Give it 10 hours
Gets good by 10h then rated almost like by veterans
Fully opens up by 15h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 30% of owners
Steam reviews 80% positive of 54,064
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (53%); after 15h it's 1 in 7 (13%).
- Fully opens up by hour 15.
- The opening is criticised more than in 81% of games we track.
- The biggest drop-off is between “Hello World” (Take down Maurice) and “Family Man” (Complete Act 1): from 100% to 46% of starters.
- Only 30% 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 54,298 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 294 reviews: 19.9h for positive, 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 (29.5% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Hello World Take down Maurice 100%
- Family Man Complete Act 1 Most players quit here 46% −54
- Who Is Raymond Kenney? Complete Act 2 31% −15
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (49)
story milestone ending side
- Hello World Take down Maurice 100%
- Bookmarked Tag 100 enemies 52%
- Hard Crash Perform 10 vehicle take downs 48%
- Family Man Complete Act 1 46%
- Who Is Raymond Kenney? Complete Act 2 31%
- Black Hat Trick Kill 3 enemies with a single IED 29%
- One Down, One to Go Complete Act 3 29%
- Vengeance Complete Act 4 27%
- Log Off Complete Act 5 25%
- Escape Loop Escape 15 police chases 24%
- Hardware Fail Shoot out a tire on 15 different vehicles 22%
- Free Radical Escape a level 5 police chase 20%
- Communication Fail Using non-lethal takedown, stop 10 civilians from calling to report you 20%
- Clear Signals Unlock every ctOS Tower 20%
- Magic Smoke Kill 4 enemies within a single instance of Focus 19%
- Enforcer Use the Crime Detection System to take down 20 confirmed criminals 15%
- Darkness Looms Complete the final mission of the Missing Persons Investigation 8.8%
- Basest Base Complete every Gang Hideout 8.8%
- Saturday Night Special Complete the final mission in the Weapons Trade Investigation 8.5%
- Revoking Client Privileges Complete the final mission in the Human Traffic Investigation 8.1%
- Sanity Check Collect all 8 Burner Phones 8.1%
- T-Bone: Friends in Need Complete Act 1 7.1%
- Read-only Complete the final mission in the QR Code Investigation 6.1%
- Peephole Complete every Privacy Invasion 6.1%
- T-Bone: No Easy Fix Complete Act 2 5.8%
- T-Bone: Pest Control Complete Act 3 5.4%
- System Mangler Complete every ctOS Breach 5.1%
- They Call Him The Vigilante Complete every Investigation 5.1%
- Power Cycle Participate in 5 different City Games 4.7%
- Geolocated Check in at every Hotspot 4.7%
- Road Rage Complete every Criminal Convoy 4.7%
- End of Line Complete 40 Fixer Contracts 4.4%
- Freeware Unlock every Skill in the Skills Tree 3.7%
- Stealth Cookie Complete an Online Tailing without being detected 3.1%
- T-Bone: Looking For Trouble Complete all side investigations 2.7%
- White Rabbit Object Escape 15 police scans 2.4%
- Scanproof Escape a level 5 police scan 2.0%
- Disk Space Full Unlock every song with the SongSneak app 2.0%
- Social Lubricant Complete level 10 against all 3 Drinking Game opponents 2.0%
- Traced Get tailed 5 times 2.0%
- Hackification Invade and successfully hack 10 enemy Fixers in Online Hacking 1.7%
- Piggyback Invade and successfully observe 10 enemy Fixers in Online Tailing 1.7%
- T-Bone: Mob Ruled Complete 20 Chicago South Club contracts 1.7%
- Superhighway Complete 10 Public Online Races 1.4%
- T-Bone: Second Amendment Complete 20 Militia contracts 1.4%
- T-Bone: Unfixable Complete 20 Fixer contracts 1.4%
- T-Bone: Full Circuit Complete 29 driving missions 1.4%
- T-Bone: Negative Eugenics Kill 4 enemies at once by blowing up the RC Car 1.0%
- T-Bone: Tag Team Complete 10 coop missions 0.7%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-18.