STRAFE: Gold Edition
Give it 5 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (56%); after 7h it's 1 in 9 (11%).
- Fully opens up by hour 7.
- The opening is criticised more than in 85% of games we track.
- 31% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “WALKIN' ON THE SUN” (Survive Icarus) and “CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF YOU, BABY” (Survive the Black Canyon): from 100% to 51% of starters.
- Only 39% 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 2,483 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 296 reviews: 9.2h for positive, 2.5h 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 (38.6% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- WALKIN' ON THE SUN Survive Icarus 100%
- CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF YOU, BABY Survive the Black Canyon Most players quit here 51% −49
- HOME Survive the Burbs 38% −13
- ALL STAR Beat STRAFE® 31% −7
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (36)
story milestone ending side
- WALKIN' ON THE SUN Survive Icarus 100%
- CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF YOU, BABY Survive the Black Canyon 51%
- HUNGRY FOR BLOOD Play the MURDERZONE 48%
- HOME Survive the Burbs 38%
- HANDYMAN Fix the Black Canyon teleporter 35%
- PLUMP QUADS Beat 10 jumps in the tutorial 33%
- ALL STAR Beat STRAFE® 31%
- WHY CAN'T WE BE FRIENDS? Survive Athena 30%
- BACK AT YA Get a reflect kill with wrench 29%
- FEAR OF FLYING Beat Luftenstein 27%
- MINE CRAFTED Beat Trappy Mine 25%
- COMMITTED Beat the game without using teleporters 22%
- HALF WAY THERE Survive 5 rooms 19%
- BRRRAT-A-TAT-TAT-TAT-TAT Beat the game with the machinegun 16%
- MR. FIX-IT Fix the Burbs teleporter 13%
- SCHKLIKT, KLIKT VOOMP Beat the game with the shotgun 12%
- VMMMM-PHT Beat the game with the railgun 12%
- TYRANT Survive all 10 rooms 11%
- MIND BLOWING Blow up 666 barrels 9.6%
- EXTERMINATED Beat Rats map 9.1%
- BAD PARENT Kill 50 Little Joby's 7.0%
- KILLED THE PAST Beat Gungeon 3D Blast 5.4%
- THAT WAS REALLY DUMB... Beat a level ONLY strafing 5.2%
- ENGINEER Fix the Athena teleporter 4.9%
- HANGTIME Beat the STRAFE jump map 4.4%
- LIFES A BEACH Beat Going Home 4.4%
- BIG TROUBLE, LITTLE HANDS Beat the boss using Lil Joby 3.4%
- COWABUNGA Get a kill while riding a harvester 3.4%
- SPEED RUNNER Beat game under this time limit 40 mins 3.4%
- DIRTY HANDS Interact with everything in the bathroom 3.1%
- SHHHHHH Find 100 secrets 3.1%
- ART CRITIC Destroy 100 Paintings 2.8%
- PUNCH DRUNK Beat the game without a primary weapon 2.8%
- UNTOUCHABLE Beat the game without obtaining health or shields 2.3%
- COMPLETIONIST Get all achievements 1.6%
- STRADDICTED® Die 1000 times 1.6%