Hyper Light Drifter
Give it 5 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 3 reviews are negative (31%); after 10h it's 1 in 40 (3%).
- Fully opens up by hour 10.
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- Only 48% 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 19,332 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 10.2h for positive, 5.8h 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 (48.5% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
This game has no story achievements, so we can't tell where players quit.
All achievements (23)
story milestone ending side
- Dummy Trick a Dirk to jump off a ledge 100%
- Chain Dash Champion How many can you get? 50%
- Nice Shot! Kill 5 enemies with a bomb 50%
- Meditation Casey would know what to do 37%
- Nothing's Easy, Now is it? Opening death 34%
- Line Em' Up Hit 4 enemies with one railgun shot 31%
- Bully Beat all bosses 30%
- Star Athlete Win at the sport of Drifters 26%
- The Dash Eternal Perform the ultimate chain dash 16%
- Diamonds Are Forever Collect all modules 16%
- Armory Collect all Weapons 16%
- Librarian Collect all tablets 11%
- Natural Leader Tame a certain wild creature... 6.8%
- Contender Beat Hoarde Mode 5.6%
- Boss Rush Level 1 Complete Boss Rush with the Fully Loaded loadout 5.4%
- Walk-In Closet Collect all outfits 4.1%
- Boss Rush Level 2 Complete Boss Rush with the Mid-Range loadout 3.3%
- Shine Bright Collect all Gearbits 3.1%
- Masochist Beat NG+ 2.9%
- Boss Rush Level 3 Complete Boss Rush with the Naked loadout 2.7%
- Hoarder Collect Everything 2.7%
- Don't Give Up! You can do it! 1.9%
- One Shot Finish the game without dying 1.6%