Early Access
White Knuckle
Hooks you almost right away
Gets good by 2h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Started playing 86% of owners
Steam reviews 98% positive of 15,603
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 14 reviews are negative (7%); after 15h it's 1 in 65 (2%).
- The opening is criticised less than in 95% of games we track.
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- 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 15,704 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 297 reviews: 26.5h for positive, 6.7h 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 (85.8% 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 (67)
story milestone ending side
- Urban Boulderer Climb 250 Meters in a run. 100%
- Accidental Hire Finish the Tutorial. 96%
- Proficient Climber Climb 500 Meters in a run. 89%
- Plumber Reach Pipeworks. 85%
- What a Snack! Get eaten by a Barnacle. 83%
- Unnatural Enhancements You feel stronger. You've felt this pain before. 83%
- Talented Scaler Climb 1000 Meters in a run. 77%
- Reject Mortality Plucked from the periphery. Don't forget: it lies. 76%
- Locked Out Forgot your keys. 74%
- Exterminator Smash 100 Roaches. 74%
- Hair Cut Die to a fan in Air Exchange. 71%
- Experimental Research You sure this is safe? 70%
- Criminal You monster. 69%
- OSHA Violation Get Crushed. 69%
- Pathfinder Place 100 navigational tools. 67%
- Art Enthusiast Somebody else has been here. 66%
- How Deep Are We? Reach Habitation Yellow. 63%
- Combustion Architect Bounce off a gasbag. 59%
- AAAAAAAAAAA Fall 75 Meters 57%
- Expert Clamberer Climb 2000 Meters in a run. 57%
- Middle Class Bank 50 Credits. 55%
- A New Hatred Die to steam in Pipe Organ 53%
- Clocking out Reach The Abyss. 51%
- Rod God Throw 100 Rebar Rods. 51%
- Construction Worker Place 100 pitons. 50%
- Ballistic Trajectory Surprisingly useful. 50%
- Get Devoured [CENSORED] 49%
- Beyond Understanding Find a Powerful Artifact 46%
- I Hate Those Guys Die to a Bloodbug. 44%
- High Paying Job Bank 100 Credits. 41%
- The Thing In The Walls You let go. 40%
- Rocket Scientist PHD and everything. 39%
- New Best Friend Pet a Strider. 39%
- Into Her Grasp Reach the Nest 34%
- Getting Merry Reach Interlude: Solstice in the Chimney 33%
- Lookout Duty Don't look down. 29%
- The Day We Died Reach the Lost Pier. 28%
- Escape is no longer an option. Reach the Core. 24%
- Go Around, Come Around Loop Back to Silos in Endless Substructure 21%
- Delusions How could you? 21%
- Cultural Exchange Make a trade at the Bazaar. 20%
- Condemned No More Escape the Prison Complex in Parasite. 19%
- Master Free-Soloist Climb 5000 Meters in a run. 19%
- This place again? Loop back to Silos in endless underworks 18%
- Just Started Blasting Kill five denizens in five seconds with the Handgun. 18%
- You Shouldn't Be Here Unlock the Tangled Sink Shortcut. 17%
- Mother's Embrace Deliver a grub to the Mother. 17%
- Too Big to Fail Bank 500 Credits. 17%
- Up On the Housetop Loop in the Chimney. 16%
- Just a Scratch Grind your hand in a Recycler. 15%
- Is This Better? Unlock the Expulsion Chute Shortcut. 14%
- Grit Reach the Abyss in Hard Mode. 13%
- Hefty Reward Deliver 3 grubs to the Mother in a run. 13%
- Probably Not Possible Climb 10 Kilometers in a run. 13%
- Mother Carry a grub in one hand up 500 meters. 13%
- It's Not Over Yet Unlock the Rotten Duct Shortcut. 12%
- Endangered Commit 50 crimes. 12%
- Sight, Sea, Light Death, Death, Death 11%
- Suspicious Meat Safe, appetizing, delicious. Almost certainly an illusion. 11%
- The Ladder What a Thrill. 11%
- Child of Lambda, A Hero Save the Mother in Roach Mode, Without going to Hot Zone 11%
- Dont Forget Me Love once lost, lives again? 10%
- Endling's Lament Unlock the Hadal Diver Shortcut. 9.7%
- Mother's Wrath Monstrous. 8.9%
- Call An Ambulance Fully Shatter Every Limb in Survival Mode at the Same Time. 7.8%
- Gold Source Achieve 5 Gold+ Medals in Challenges 7.7%
- Olympic Grade Achieve 5 Platinum Medals in Challenges 7.2%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-19.