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A Walk in the Dark
Hooks you right away
Gets good instantly from the first hour
Started playing 95% of owners
Steam reviews 80% positive of 389
What the data shows
- 69% of first-hour reviews are positive — about the same as players with 3+ hours (69%).
- Few early reviews, so this is a rough estimate.
- 95% 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 396 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 3h for positive, 1.2h 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 (95.1% 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 (27)
- Uh... It's shiny! Catch your first Shiny 100%
- Tougher than your average cat Lead Bast to death 7 times 89%
- Agile Kitty Complete a level under the par time 89%
- Impatient Girl Kill Arielle on her first level while she's descending 78%
- Leave me alone! Disturb 10 butterflies 71%
- Natural Born Killer Destroy 30 dandelions 55%
- Cat killer Lead Bast to death 100 times 54%
- A Walk Outside Complete all Forest levels 35%
- One time only Complete a Cave level without dying 33%
- Apprentice Catcher Catch 25 Shinies 23%
- A Strange World Complete all Strange World levels 18%
- Getting out of the House Complete all House levels 17%
- Fast Kitty Complete 25 levels under the par time 17%
- You monster! Lead Bast to death 1000 times 16%
- Smoked Clean all smoke blocks in a level 13%
- Professional Catcher Catch 50 Shinies 12%
- Through the Cave Complete all Cave levels 8.8%
- Spirits Within Complete all Spirit World levels 8.1%
- Supersonic Kitty Complete 50 levels under the par time 8.0%
- Master Catcher Catch 75 Shinies 7.8%
- Hero Cat Complete all levels 7.7%
- Got them all! Catch all 100 Shinies 4.9%
- Bolt Kitty Complete all timed levels under the par time 4.6%
- Death Cheater Complete all Cave flipper levels without dying 3.9%
- Challenge accepted Complete all challenge levels 3.7%
- Completionist Cat Catch all shinies, complete all timed levels under the par time and all Cave levels without dying 3.7%
- Ninja Cat Complete all levels in a unique speed run without dying more than 10 times 2.1%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-21.