GTTOD
Give it 2 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 4 reviews are negative (27%); after 5h it's 1 in 11 (9%).
- Fully opens up by hour 3.
- 100% of players who start reach the ending.
- Only 0% 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 3,349 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 296 reviews: 12h for positive, 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 (0.2% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- SAVE THE WORLD Destroy The World Sentinel 100%
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (28)
story milestone ending side
- OH BABY BABE a weapon for the first time 100%
- INTO THE BITTER COLD Reach The Summit for the first time 100%
- MAKING THE CAPTAIN PROUD Achieve a gauntlet time of 30 seconds or lower 100%
- COMFORT Have every blessing active at once 100%
- DASHLESS WILL ALWAYS BE FUN Complete a level without dashing 100%
- WE NEED TO GO DEEPER Enter The Under Dark for the first time 100%
- WORLD WIDE DELIVERY Reach The Summit in under 10 minutes 100%
- FALL Succumb to a terrible fate 100%
- THE INDOMITABLE HUMAN SPIRIT PREVAILS Reach The Summit with no Worldly Potential 100%
- HUNTER Find your first secret 100%
- JAMMED Complete a level without firing a bullet 100%
- YOU'VE GOT MAIL Hi Kate 100%
- THE LONESOME ROAD Obliterate at the end of a Lost Path run 100%
- PERSERVERANCE Obliterate 100%
- REPEAT Complete a loop of the game 100%
- RESONANCE Find a safe place in an unsafe world 100%
- RISE Complete a level 100%
- STICKS AND STONES Upgrade a weapon for the first time 100%
- SAVE THE WORLD Destroy The World Sentinel 100%
- THANKS, BUT NO THANKS Purge your Karma in a Cleansing Pool 100%
- THE SPIRIT OF THE WORLD Ascend 100%
- TICKING ME OFF Damage a tick, but ultimately let it get away 100%
- TORMENT Have every curse active at once 100%
- THE WHITE HOLE GENERATOR ...what just happened? 100%
- WHERE AM I What is this place? 100%
- YOU ARE NOWHERE This is The Never World. 100%
- WHO'S THERE Where are you? 100%
- I AM NO ONE I am nowhere. 100%