Night in the Woods
Give it 7 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 6 reviews are negative (16%); after 15h it's 1 in 40 (2%).
- Fully opens up by hour 15.
- The opening is criticised less than in 80% of games we track.
- 56% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “Welcome Back!” and “What???” (Huh. Ok then. Hm): from 100% to 74% of starters.
- 71% 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 20,526 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 296 reviews: 13.1h for positive, 9.6h 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 (70.6% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Welcome Back! Well, that could have gone better. Also, a lot worse. 100%
- What??? Huh. Ok then. Hm. Most players quit here 74% −26
- The End Oh no. Oh no no no no. 60% −13
- Changing Of The Seasons Shorter Days, Longer Nights 59% −1
- At The End Of Everything Well, that was weird. 56% −3
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (31)
story milestone ending side
- Welcome Back! Well, that could have gone better. Also, a lot worse. 100%
- What??? Huh. Ok then. Hm. 74%
- Echoes Ghosts! 62%
- The End Oh no. Oh no no no no. 60%
- Changing Of The Seasons Shorter Days, Longer Nights 59%
- At The End Of Everything Well, that was weird. 56%
- Poets of Possum Springs A blueness, a youness, a dankness, a thankness. 54%
- Mother Of Vermin Feed them once and they’re yours. 51%
- Best Available Friend Proximity counts. 44%
- Miracle Rats Hope springs, rats multiply. 37%
- Brainshot! A killer’s eye. 36%
- The Tooth No Bobs, No Masters 34%
- Jenny’s Field Everything feels bigger and smaller. 33%
- Dusk Stargazer That sounds like someone’s name if they could name themselves at age 10. 29%
- Let’s Be Legends Long after we’re gone the kids will still talk about it. 29%
- Knife Fight Slasher, stabber, all around knifer. 24%
- You killed that poor roach. That was evidence. Probably. Geez. 19%
- Horrorshow “Everything Sucks Forever” says 15 year old horror aficionado and train tracks lurker Lori M. 17%
- Deep Hollow Hollerers Music fills empty spaces. 15%
- Thryy Wyrd Tyyns Spooky magic or something. Who knows. 13%
- He’s from somewhere. And it’s here. And there’s a trampoline! 12%
- RABIES! ALL HAIL RABIES. 11%
- Crusty Those had someone else’s mouth germs on them! 11%
- Maestro Four strings and the spite to use ‘em. 9.2%
- ~*~Demonpower~*~ !!!You have ascended the Demon’s Tower!!! 8.5%
- Accidentally Good Dinner Let’s not pretend it was skill. 7.9%
- Hold Onto Anything Again, that was weird. 6.8%
- Palecat Stop the bleeding. 5.9%
- Bass Ackwards It’s just four strings, how hard could it possibly be? 5.1%
- Make It Last as long as it will. 3.8%
- Seriously? All sketches? We made the game and have never gotten this. Wow. 1.8%