Metro Awakening
The first 2 hours are a test
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (56%); after 5h it's 1 in 6 (16%).
- Fully opens up by hour 3.
- The opening is criticised more than in 85% of games we track.
- 21% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “A Glitch in the System” (See the same collapse happen twice) and “Unresolved Business”: from 74% to 38% of starters.
- Only 65% 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 3,679 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 297 reviews: 10h for positive, 2.2h 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 (64.7% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Locked and Loaded Go out on a mission to help your wife. 100%
- A Glitch in the System See the same collapse happen twice. 74% −26
- Unresolved Business Free the people locked inside an old train cart. Most players quit here 38% −36
- Lost and Found Retrieve something that was taken from you. 43% +5
- Tili Tili Bom Follow the singing pipes all the way to the metro tunnel. 31% −12
- An Omen Meet the shaman. 29% −2
- The Scouring of Akademicheskaya Return home during darker times. 28% −1
- End of the Line Reach the Terminus station. 22% −6
- A Man of Great Worth Become Khan. 21% −1
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (26)
story milestone ending side
- Locked and Loaded Go out on a mission to help your wife. 100%
- A Window into the Past Find a postcard. 76%
- A Glitch in the System See the same collapse happen twice. 74%
- The Way to a Woman’s Heart Eugenia opened up to you. 49%
- Welterweight Champion Take out 5 enemies using a melee knockdown. 44%
- Lost and Found Retrieve something that was taken from you. 43%
- Threading a Needle Kill an elite slaver with a single headshot through their visor. 41%
- Surgical Precision Kill 25 humans with a headshot. 38%
- Unresolved Business Free the people locked inside an old train cart. 38%
- Tili Tili Bom Follow the singing pipes all the way to the metro tunnel. 31%
- Down the Rabbit Hole Have a tea party with friends. 29%
- An Omen Meet the shaman. 29%
- The Scouring of Akademicheskaya Return home during darker times. 28%
- Return to Sender Retrieve a Helsing bolt from 6 killed enemies. 26%
- Bandana Find Petya. 25%
- End of the Line Reach the Terminus station. 22%
- A Man of Great Worth Become Khan. 21%
- Spring Cleaning Burn all blocking cobwebs in the labyrinth on your first visit. 16%
- Soft Tissue Hit Nosalises in their weakspots 30 times. 6.6%
- No Space for a Treehouse In the home station, find the children's secret hideout. 6.3%
- Instant Hangover Use a bottle to knock out an enemy. 6.0%
- Spartan Complete the game on hardcore difficulty. 2.5%
- Now I Have a Machine Gun Ho-Ho-Ho After getting imprisoned, kill all slavers on the platform before retrieving your gear. 2.0%
- Not Just Déjà Vu Bring an object from a hypnotic dream back to the real world. 0.9%
- World Tour Collect all 33 postcards. 0.8%
- Upholding the Hippocratic Oath In a single playthrough, complete all stealth sections without killing any human enemies or getting seen. 0.6%