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Downward: Enhanced Edition
Hooks you right away
Gets good instantly from the first hour
Started playing 81% of owners
Steam reviews 71% positive of 567
What the data shows
- 45% of first-hour reviews are positive — about the same as players with 5+ hours (45%).
- The opening is criticised more than in 82% of games we track.
- Few early reviews, so this is a rough estimate.
- 81% 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.
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Based on all 567 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 295 reviews: 7.7h for positive, 2.7h 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 (80.7% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
Story milestones aren't labeled yet; all achievements are listed below.
All achievements (30)
- Wake Up! Wake Up! 100%
- Warp Back! Use the Mark for the first time. 74%
- One down! Defeat your first golem. 71%
- The only way forward is Downward! Exit the tutorial area. 51%
- Sky-walker Obtain the Double Jump Artifact. 40%
- Reach for the Summit Reach the temple on top of the cliff. 33%
- From out of nowhere! Die from a Drone explosion. 31%
- Whispers Gather 25 Dry Artifacts. 29%
- Flying arrow Obtain the Slingshot Artifact. 24%
- Deal! Sell 5 items to the Merchant. 23%
- Voices Gather 50 Dry Artifacts. 21%
- Quinta Essentia Obtain 500 Skypieces. 19%
- Seasoned Stockpiler Sell 15 items to the Merchant. 13%
- Super-Realistic NextGen Gameplay Die from a Cactus. 12%
- Power and Plenty Unlock all Insight skills. 10%
- Inner Sense Unlock all Pursuance skills. 10%
- Stellae Fixae Obtain 1000 Skypieces. 9.7%
- Feels like home Build the first room in the Merchant's Lair. 9.7%
- Tree of Life Unlock all Endurance skills. 9.5%
- Giving some purpose Build four different rooms in the Merchant's Lair. 8.9%
- All-seeing Unlock all Meditation skills. 8.1%
- Spring of Wisdom Unlock all Wisdom skills. 8.1%
- Wall-jump Master Perform 500 wall-jumps. 7.2%
- Gold Rush Get a Gold medal in the Challenges. 6.6%
- Double Jump Master Perform 500 double jumps. 5.9%
- Firmamentum Obtain 2000 Skypieces. 5.8%
- Better than a haystack! Survive your own recklessness. 5.3%
- Slingshot Master Perform 500 slingshots. 3.1%
- Wall-run Master Perform 500 wall-runs. 3.0%
- King Midas Get 10 Gold medals in the Challenges. 2.2%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-21.