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Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition
The first 3 hours are a test
Gets good by 3h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 10h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 87% of owners
Steam reviews 77% positive of 20,699
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (60%); after 10h it's 1 in 7 (15%).
- Fully opens up by hour 10.
- The opening is criticised more than in 89% of games we track.
- The biggest drop-off is between “Morgue-ified” (Chapter 2 completed) and “Family Man” (Chapter 3 completed): from 66% to 41% of starters.
- 86% 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.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 20,751 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 13.8h for positive, 11.9h 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 (86.5% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Starter Chapter 0 completed. 84% −16
- Quarantined Chapter 1 completed. 79% −5
- Morgue-ified Chapter 2 completed. 66% −13
- Family Man Chapter 3 completed. Most players quit here 41% −25
- Happy Camper Chapter 4 completed. 38% −3
- Day at the Museum Chapter 5 completed. 33% −5
- The Doctor is Out Chapter 6 completed. 31% −2
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (88)
story milestone ending side
- Zombie Killer Killed 100 zombies. 100%
- Local Hero Stranded survivor saved. 97%
- A Little Ambition Purchased one Attribute. 88%
- Planner 5 blueprints collected. 88%
- Apprentice Level 5 reached. 87%
- Starter Chapter 0 completed. 84%
- Zombie Butcher Killed 1,000 zombies. 82%
- Quarantined Chapter 1 completed. 79%
- Ladder Climber Purchased 10 Attributes. 70%
- Wrathful Zhi defeated. 70%
- Morgue-ified Chapter 2 completed. 66%
- Journeyman 25 blueprints collected. 60%
- Greedy Albert defeated. 49%
- Customizer Created 5 combo vehicles. 45%
- Engineer 50 blueprints collected. 42%
- Family Man Chapter 3 completed. 41%
- Driven 20 vehicles collected in the vehicle lot. 40%
- Zombie Slayer Killed 10,000 zombies. 40%
- Expert Level 25 reached. 39%
- Man of the People 15 stranded survivors saved. 39%
- Gluttonous Darlene defeated. 39%
- Happy Camper Chapter 4 completed. 38%
- Lusty Dylan defeated. 36%
- Help Wanted 5 survivors added to the survivor bulletin board. 34%
- Prideful Jherii defeated. 33%
- Day at the Museum Chapter 5 completed. 33%
- T.I.O.D. Disciple Created 50 combo weapons. 32%
- Be a Dick! Joined a Co-op game. 31%
- The Doctor is Out Chapter 6 completed. 31%
- Slothful Theodore defeated. 28%
- Sideswiped Completed 20 side missions. 28%
- Them's the Facts The Facts completed. 27%
- Complete Package Overtime completed. 25%
- Prestigious Completed 10 PP Trials. 21%
- Envious Kenny defeated! 21%
- Master Builder 100 blueprints collected. 19%
- Specialist Maxed out a single attribute. 16%
- Maxed! Level 50 reached. 15%
- Fashion Plate 100 clothing items collected in the clothing closet. 15%
- Covering The Traces Collect precious cargo 13%
- Cleaning House Prep Base Camp for Bravo Team 12%
- Collector 250 weapons collected in the weapons locker. 11%
- Delivery Man Collect Charlie's supplies 10%
- Eagle Has Landed Locate the President 9.7%
- Duty Or Death Complete Dead Rising 3: Operation Broken Eagle 9.4%
- Talk It Out Question Winnie 8.1%
- Hall Monitor Defend the school 7.7%
- Live to Fight Again Recover all Squad Members 7.6%
- Master of Massacre Killed 53,597 zombies. 7.6%
- Gang Banger Led a full survivor posse. 7.3%
- Fly The Coop Escaped Los Perdidos Police Department 7.2%
- Well Stocked Collect special supplies for the Safe Zone 6.8%
- Throwing Down the Gauntlet Survived Spider's trial 6.8%
- Shakedown Interrogate Spec Ops 6.5%
- Angel Gets Her Wings Complete Dead Rising 3: Fallen Angel 6.4%
- Builder's Apprentice Helped Torque build a special bike 6.0%
- Duct Tape Master Created every combo weapon. 5.8%
- Out With The Bad All Bikers defeated 5.8%
- Hunter and the Hunted All Captains defeated 5.7%
- Fit to Lead Dead Rising 3: Chaos Rising completed 5.5%
- Hawg Heaven Torque's surprise obtained 5.5%
- Rest In Peace Collect all Dog Tags 5.3%
- Hacking the Hacker Nelson found 5.3%
- Sourced Source of military signal discovered 5.0%
- Genius of Zombie Slaying Killed 72,000 zombies. 5.0%
- Kane's Last Words Evidence collected 4.7%
- Agent of Justice Dead Rising 3: The Last Agent completed 4.6%
- Master Mechanic Created every combo vehicle. 4.5%
- Certified Survivalist 25 Survival Training Bronze medals earned. 4.2%
- Almost Famous Completed 25 PP Trials. 4.2%
- Counter Terrorist Infect all Safe Zones 4.0%
- No Peeking! Destroy all ZDC Cameras 3.9%
- Survival Training Specialist 25 Survival Training Silver medals earned. 3.9%
- Eyes in the Sky Hack all ZDC Cameras 3.7%
- Survival Training Master 25 Survival Training Gold medals earned. 3.7%
- Nightmare Master Chapter 7 completed in Nightmare Mode. 3.4%
- Bag of Chips All ZDC Chips collected 3.4%
- Left 100,004 Dead Killed 100,004 zombies. 3.2%
- Burn Baby Burn Burn all propaganda Posters 2.9%
- Med Tech Collect all Medical Supplies 2.9%
- The Finer Things All bottles of Special Reserve Whiskey collected 2.8%
- Stick it to the Man All Emergency Phones destroyed 2.7%
- Add to The Collection All Custom Motorcycles collected for Torque 2.5%
- Bootleg Operator All Bootleg Zombrex collected 2.5%
- Sworn to Protect All Survivors rescued 2.4%
- Guardian Angel Rescue all Survivors 2.1%
- Ashes to Ashes All Biohazards burned 2.1%
- Prestige Hound Completed all PP Trials. 1.8%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-18.