PANICORE
The first 3 hours are a test
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (57%); after 4h it's 1 in 14 (7%).
- Fully opens up by hour 4.
- The opening is criticised more than in 86% of games we track.
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- Only 61% 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 13,257 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 296 reviews: 6.1h for positive, 1.9h 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 (61.1% 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 (33)
story milestone ending side
- Carpenter Built a ladder using the instructions in the school 100%
- Graduated Escaped the Volga Middle School 98%
- Learning Explorer Reach level 5 77%
- Health Insurance Escaped the Havenview General Hospital 56%
- Professional Betrayer Betray your friend by stunning them 40%
- Hardworking Student Collect all notebooks in the school 38%
- Mental Breakthrough Escaped the Whispering Pines Asylum 35%
- Ball Whisperer Shoot all balls into a pocket 27%
- Submarine Story Collect all files inside the submarine 20%
- Advanced Explorer Reach Level 10 20%
- Finish Submarine Get out of the submarine 18%
- Psychiatrist Collect all patient files in the asylum 15%
- Code Cracker Find the code and read more about the submarine 11%
- Interested Doctor Collect all patient files in the hospital 10%
- Mine! Collect all gifts on the Project Snowbound map 9.8%
- Happy Holidays Escaped the Snowbound map 7.2%
- Soldier Escaped the Military Base 4.9%
- Veteran Collect all files in the Military Base 4.7%
- Pro Surgeon Escape from the hospital on PAINCORE difficulty 3.8%
- Top Student Escape from the school on PAINCORE difficulty 3.8%
- Crazy Doctor Escape from the asylum on PAINCORE difficulty 3.1%
- Expert Explorer Reach Level 15 3.1%
- All mine! Buy every skin available 2.5%
- Mastermind Escape any map on PAINCORE+ 2.0%
- Nom Nom Nom Escape any map in zombie outbreak mode 2.0%
- The Fast Airbender Escape any map in limited oxygen mode 2.0%
- Fast fast! Survive the submarine map on PAINCORE difficulty 1.3%
- Hungry for more Slap 2222 zombies 1.0%
- Super Soldier Escape from the Military Base on PAINCORE difficulty 0.8%
- Coal for Santa Escape the Snowbound map on PAINCORE difficulty 0.5%
- Crime Scene Photographer Photograph every clue in the prison 0.2%
- Jailbreak Escaped the Ashmore Correctional Facility 0.2%
- Maximum Security Escape from the prison on PAINCORE difficulty 0.2%