ActionAdventureIndieRPGSimulationStrategy
Survivalist
Give it 7 hours
Gets good by 7h then rated almost like by veterans
Fully opens up by 15h rated like by long-time players
Reach the ending at least 8% of players who started
Started playing 24% of owners
Steam reviews 80% positive of 2,569
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (55%); after 15h it's 1 in 30 (3%).
- Fully opens up by hour 15.
- The opening is criticised more than in 83% of games we track.
- At least 8% of players who start reach the ending.
- Only 24% 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 2,577 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 292 reviews: 17.6h for positive, 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 (23.7% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Happy Ending Complete the game by following your heart. ≥8% −92
story milestone ending (most common ending) biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (39)
story milestone ending side
- Sterilized Make a bandage by sterilizing a rag with some cheap vodka. 100%
- Maximum Respect Awarded if some character's opinion of Joe Wheeler reaches 100% Respect. 100%
- Slow Zombies Cripple 10 infected with legshots. When you are targeting an enemy, move mouse down to select legshots. Firearms skill level 1 required. 95%
- A Present for Vyacheslav Make a molotov cocktail (requires a rag, cheap vodka and a match). 89%
- I Guess I Have No Choice Recruit a looter to your community. 85%
- Shoot Them In The Head Kill 10 enemies with headshots. When you are targeting an enemy, move mouse up to select headshot. Firearms skill level 3 required. 75%
- Stamp of Approval Awarded if some character's opinion of Joe Wheeler reaches 100% Approval. 61%
- Persuasive Recruit any member of the Fort Kohai to your community. 46%
- The Forgotten Heist Somewhere in the area is a getaway vehicle from a long-forgotten heist, containing an assault rifle, a backpack, and a pile of now-worthless cash. Find it. 45%
- There's Too Many of Them Out There Build fences all around your bunker, so that it is completely enclosed. 42%
- Tower Fall Shoot an enemy in the leg, who is in a watchtower, causing them to fall out of the watchtower (Firearms skill level 1 required). 36%
- Hindenburg Line Build a pillbox. 32%
- Mind Probe Find the Brain Scanner. 32%
- Memories Find Auntie Abbie's locket and return it to Annie Dillinger. 30%
- Flame-Resistant Build a concrete watchtower. 26%
- Lead my people out of Egypt Recruit any member of Santa Maddalena to your community. 22%
- One Shot One Kill Take down a White Strain Infected with a single shot to the head (requires a Sniper Rifle and Firearms skill level 5). 20%
- Don't Starve Steal or destroy all of another community's crops, without ever starting a war with them. 18%
- I Don't Negotiate With Kidnappers Free Bridget Cassidy without giving the kidnappers any ransom money or gifts. 18%
- Napoleon Complex Free Willard Williams without giving the kidnappers any ransom money or gifts. 15%
- Champion Of The World Defeat an opponent with skill level 5 at fisticuffs (you'll need to wager 100 gold). 14%
- They started it! Recruit any member of the McCoys to your community. 13%
- Of course you realize this means war! Recruit any member of the Fat Neils to your community. 12%
- A Series of Temporary Measures Strung Together Find all the insulin in the area and give it to Alice (there are 62 doses in total). 11%
- I Am The Law! Complete all the quests that involve taking down a gang of looters. 10%
- Splosions Blow up 10 buildings with a Rocket-Propelled Grenade Launcher. 9.7%
- Some Men Just Want to Watch the World Burn Burn down 10 buildings with molotov cocktails. 8.9%
- Just a Patsy Recruit Bat Jacobs to your community. 8.4%
- Grandma's got a Shotgun! Recruit Connie Reed to your community. 8.4%
- Happy Ending Complete the game by following your heart. 7.6%
- It's Crispalicious! Recruit all the Fat Neils to your community (without any of them dying). 7.6%
- Who is Jim Gallager? Recruit Jim Gallager to your community. 7.2%
- You Love It! Recruit all the McCoys to your community (without any of them dying). 6.8%
- What The Hell, Right? This awardment is obtained if Isham joins you on your journey to Vancouver. 6.3%
- The Great Dictator Complete the game by becoming the most powerful community leader in the area. 5.9%
- All You Need Is Gold Complete the game by amassing a vast amount of gold. 5.5%
- I'm only interested in the gold! Find a way to get the gold from Hollow Rock Farm without setting off the I.E.D. 4.6%
- Crate Expectations Find and investigate all the crates in the area (there are 47 in total). 4.6%
- The Path of the Righteous Man Complete the game without killing anyone who didn't deserve it, executing those who do, and without allowing Alice to die. 4.2%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-19.