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Shadowrun: Hong Kong - Extended Edition
Give it 15 hours
Gets good by 15h then rated almost like by veterans
Fully opens up by 35h rated like by long-time players
Reach the ending at least 41% of players who started
Started playing 58% of owners
Steam reviews 86% positive of 4,875
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (51%); after 35h it's 1 in 15 (7%).
- Fully opens up by hour 35.
- The opening is criticised more than in 79% of games we track.
- At least 41% of players who start reach the ending.
- Most players drop off before “I Don’t Get Paid Enough for This”: only 35% of starters get there.
- Only 58% 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 4,887 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 300 reviews: 43.5h for positive, 8.4h 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 (58.2% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- I Don’t Get Paid Enough for This Get the last of the Tsang guards to let you pass after rescuing Raymond from Prosperity Tower. Most players quit here 35% −65
- Making Amends Watch Raymond Black sacrifice himself to shut down the Fortune Engine. ≥41% +7
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 (60)
story milestone ending side
- Shoot Straight Successfully attack an enemy with a chance of less than 30% to hit. 100%
- They’re Not Worth It Complete “City of Darkness” without any Yellow Lotus dying. 96%
- Punching Deck Steal paydata from a high security system. 96%
- Boom Hit four or more enemies with an area of effect attack. 93%
- Wait For It… Kill an enemy with damage over time. 83%
- Ronin Get Gaichu to join your crew. 78%
- Just in Case Get all pips while hacking a Blocker IC. 62%
- Pinball Wizard Hit three or more enemies with a bouncing magic spell. 58%
- Come Forth Summon 5 spirits from places in the environment. 52%
- Little Helpers Use drones to kill 15 enemies. 51%
- Wrong Order Poison The Talon’s food in Shangri-La. 51%
- Screw the Job Kill one of Strangler Bao's Yellow Lotus in the Walled City 50%
- No Mercy Killed the Plastic-Faced Man. 42%
- Making Amends Watch Raymond Black sacrifice himself to shut down the Fortune Engine. 41%
- I Feel Great! Heal more than 30 damage in a single cast of Heal Wound. 40%
- Hot Potato Throw back three grenades with the Shiawase Loader Arm. 40%
- Lessons Learned Complete Gobbet’s storyline. 38%
- Memory Lane Complete Is0bel’s storyline. 36%
- (Don’t) Conserve Ammo Kill 15 enemies using a full-auto rifle or minigun. 35%
- I Don’t Get Paid Enough for This Get the last of the Tsang guards to let you pass after rescuing Raymond from Prosperity Tower. 35%
- Seven Times a Ronin Complete Gaichu’s storyline. 34%
- Welcome to the Shadows Die on the first mission. 30%
- Just a Pawn Spared the Plastic-Faced Man. 29%
- Tastes Like Chicken Drink some of the blood in Exit Stage Left, and eat some human flesh in Grendel. 28%
- Street Justice Killed the HKPF patrol to save the civilians 27%
- No Stone Unturned Hit all data stores and the core system nodes in Prosperity Tower. 27%
- Welcome to the Sixth World Kill 20 enemies with magic spells. 26%
- Posthuman Complete Racter’s storyline. 24%
- Walking Weapon Kill 10 enemies with Cyber-Weapons. 23%
- Calling the Shots Use the Mark Target Ability on 10 enemies. 23%
- A Pirate's Life for Me Lay low with the Loho-Jowah pirates on the Benteng. 23%
- By the Book? Kill Gaichu in the Whampoa Gardens. 22%
- More Bullets, More Effective Use Spray & Pray to hit more than two enemies with an SMG. 19%
- Bagged and Tagged Zip-tie 3 enemies with Duncan’s Subdue ability. 19%
- Patient Zero Steal a sample of the SARS III 19%
- Monster Squad Have Gaichu and Ku Feng on your team during the final mission. 18%
- Rats! Rats! Rats! Play Ratparty.sim 18%
- Full Circle Help Kindly relocate the Yellow Lotus to the Redmond Barrens. 18%
- I Don't Have a Problem Use 5 "combat stims." 18%
- You're On Your Own, Kid Don't side with Fuchi or Yamatetsu at the end of "DETENTION" 17%
- Wouldn’t Want to be That Guy Have an enemy that is bleeding, on fire, and infected. 16%
- Like a Powder Keg Blow up a police vehicle in the motor pool 16%
- Good Fortune Coerce Qian Ya into leaving this plane of existence. 15%
- Chunky Salsa Kill 5 enemies with grenades. 12%
- Heavy Metal Gain control of a Spider Tank 11%
- Pays For Itself Skip 10 reloads with the Auto-Loader Cyber-Arm. 9.8%
- We're Both Professionals Talk Krait into standing down. 9.6%
- Built for the Streets Have every cyberware slot filled by an enhancement. 9.3%
- Home Again Regain your SIN and return to Seattle. 6.0%
- The Promised Land Gain access to the Police Station roof 5.3%
- No Loose Ends Leave Qiu to die. 5.3%
- Clear! Stun 5 enemies with the Shock Glove or Shock Hand. 5.2%
- God Puncher Punch the final boss. 5.2%
- Together Again Regain your SIN and return to Raymond in Seattle. 5.2%
- It’s Just One City Make a deal with Qian Ya, the Queen With a Thousand Teeth. 4.5%
- Law Breaker Run Maximum Law out of town or kill him. 3.8%
- Pyrrhic Victory Coerce Qian Ya into leaving this plane of existence, taking Raymond Black with her. 3.6%
- It's Called Being Thorough Blow up all the police vehicles in the motor pool 3.4%
- Behind the Curtain Listen to all developer commentary 2.4%
- Charmed Life Complete Shadows of Hong Kong after taking Qian Ya's deal in the main campaign. 2.2%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-19.