ActionIndieRPG
Dark Hunting Ground
Give it 20 hours
Gets good by 20h then rated almost like by veterans
Started playing 56% of owners
Steam reviews 92% positive of 830
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 5 reviews are negative (22%); after 20h it's 1 in 16 (6%).
- Few early reviews, so this is a rough estimate.
- Only 56% 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 842 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 20.2h for positive, 5.3h 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 (56.2% 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 (14)
- Destruction Corpse Kill the Destruction Corpse once 100%
- Eternal Frost Eye Kill the Eternal Frost Eye once 90%
- Nirvana Wings Kill the Nirvana Wings once 84%
- Furious Thunder Kill the Furious Thunder once 80%
- Chaos Avatar Kill the Chaos Avatar once 79%
- New Beginning Reach Level 50 66%
- Go Further Reach Purple Skull Difficulty 59%
- The End is Near Reach Orange Skull Difficulty 34%
- Chaos End Kill the Chaos Avatar on the highest difficulty level 19%
- Power of Chaos Deeply Chaos an item 14%
- Abyss Complete the highest difficulty level of the Abyss 14%
- Dummy Killer Achieve 1T DPS on the Training Dummy 8.5%
- Resonance Score 1,000,000 points in the Infinite Abyss 7.1%
- Perfect Cognition Reach Level 500 6.2%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-21.