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The Whispered World Special Edition
Give it 7 hours
Gets good by 7h then rated almost like by veterans
Fully opens up by 10h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 37% of owners
Steam reviews 76% positive of 2,195
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (52%); after 10h it's 1 in 7 (14%).
- Fully opens up by hour 10.
- The opening is criticised more than in 80% of games we track.
- Only 37% 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 2,199 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 297 reviews: 8.8h 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 (36.6% 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 (20)
- Ball Spot Learn the Ball Spot Form! 100%
- Fire Spot Learn the Fire Spot Form! 59%
- Canonball Ride Finish Chapter 1! 57%
- Five Spot Learn the Five Spot Form! 51%
- Kalida Awakes Finish Chapter 2! 50%
- For Whom the Bell Tolls Figure out the correct time on your own! 47%
- Check Mate Solve the chess puzzle without skipping. 44%
- Leaf Spot Learn the Leaf Spot Form! 44%
- The Train to Corona Finish Chapter 3! 44%
- The Boy in the Mirror Finish Chapter 4! 41%
- Shove Off! Solve the slider puzzle without skipping. 30%
- Tubelicious! Solve the tube puzzle without skipping. 25%
- He's never gonna learn... If Sadwick will ever find the right way to Shana? 21%
- Mirror, Mirror... There must be an alternative ending! 16%
- Walkthrough User Directly open the door. 15%
- Honking Shoes Unlock the secret honking-shoe-mode! 15%
- Saving Time I don't like minigames! 13%
- Dinner is (almost) Ready! There still isn't any soup! 12%
- Master of the Spot Parcours This is the optimal solution. 12%
- Master of Disguise How often do you have to transform spot?! 11%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-19.