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Give it 2 hours
Gets good by 2h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 3h rated like by long-time players
Reach the ending 6% of players who started
Started playing 51% of owners
Steam reviews 76% positive of 2,488
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours almost 1 in 2 reviews are negative (45%); after 3h it's 1 in 9 (11%).
- Fully opens up by hour 3.
- 6% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “Not So Hard” (Complete Mission: Hardpoint) and “Light It Up” (Complete Mission: Dark Source): from 92% to 59% of starters.
- Only 51% 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 2,514 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 297 reviews: 4.2h for positive, 0.7h 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 (51.2% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Not So Hard Complete Mission: Hardpoint 92% −8
- Light It Up Complete Mission: Dark Source Most players quit here 59% −33
- Keep Watching The Skies Complete Mission: Skybound 45% −14
- One In The Chamber Complete Mission: Nuke Fusion 31% −13
- Vape Tricks Complete Mission: Vapor Exploit 24% −8
- Artful Dodger Complete Mission: Extermination 15% −8
- In The Garden Of Eden Complete Mission: Soul Decrypt 11% −5
- General Intelligence Complete Mission: Cataclysm 9% −1
- Lightning Rod Complete Mission: Thundershock 8% −1
- Alpha and Omega Complete Mission: Fatal Error 6% −2
- Data Transfer Complete Complete Raw Data 6%
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (46)
story milestone ending side
- Basic Comprehension Complete any tutorial 100%
- Not So Hard Complete Mission: Hardpoint 92%
- Not Without Incident Complete any Level with Bishop 79%
- Bishop's Opening Unlock one ability with Bishop 70%
- Head Case Get 50 Headshots 64%
- Light It Up Complete Mission: Dark Source 59%
- Down The Rabbit Hole Find a Smart Pad 56%
- Keep Watching The Skies Complete Mission: Skybound 45%
- Blade Runner Complete any Level with Saija 40%
- Ask A Ninja Unlock one ability with Saija 37%
- One In The Chamber Complete Mission: Nuke Fusion 31%
- Did We Just Become Best Friends!? Play a Co-Op Game 30%
- Take It Personally Get 50 Melee kills 28%
- Peace Through Violence Complete any Level with Elder 28%
- Old Dog, New Tricks Unlock one ability with Elder 26%
- Vape Tricks Complete Mission: Vapor Exploit 24%
- Come At The King Complete any Level with Boss 21%
- Cant Touch This Complete a Mission with no damage on the Data Core 21%
- Like A Boss Unlock one ability with Boss 21%
- S-M-R-T Complete all tutorials 20%
- Bishops Before Knights Unlock all abilities with Bishop 17%
- Artful Dodger Complete Mission: Extermination 15%
- The Only Good Bot Is A Dead Bot Kill 1,000 Bots 15%
- In The Garden Of Eden Complete Mission: Soul Decrypt 11%
- General Intelligence Complete Mission: Cataclysm 9.0%
- Lightning Rod Complete Mission: Thundershock 8.4%
- Ninja Warrior Unlock all abilities with Saija 7.8%
- Alpha and Omega Complete Mission: Fatal Error 6.4%
- Data Transfer Complete Complete Raw Data 5.9%
- Aim To Misbehave Unlock all abilities with Elder 5.5%
- The Legendary Mercenary Unlock all abilities with Boss 4.3%
- Wilhelm Scream Get 25 Push-Off kills 1.8%
- Curiouser and Curiouser Find half of the Smart pads 1.6%
- Go H.A.M. Complete Hardpoint on Nightmare 0.6%
- Hard Act To Follow Complete Raw Data on Hard 0.6%
- Advanced Machine Learning Complete Cataclysm on Nightmare 0.4%
- Lit AF Complete Dark Source on Nightmare 0.4%
- Safety Dance Complete Extermination on Nightmare 0.4%
- Is That All You Got? Complete Fatal Error on Nightmare 0.4%
- Cold War Complete Nuke Fusion on Nightmare 0.4%
- Livin' The Dream Complete Raw Data on Nightmare 0.4%
- On Top Of It Complete Skybound on Nightmare 0.4%
- Lawnmower Man Complete Soul Decrypt on Nightmare 0.4%
- The Odinson Complete Thundershock on Nightmare 0.4%
- Which One Vapes? Complete Vapor Exploit on Nightmare 0.4%
- The Whole Story Find all of the Smart Pads 0.4%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-19.