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The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker
Give it 7 hours
Gets good by 7h then rated almost like by veterans
Started playing 86% of owners
Steam reviews 82% positive of 621
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours most reviews are negative (67%); after 7h it's 1 in 9 (11%).
- The opening is criticised more than in 94% of games we track.
- Few early reviews, so this is a rough estimate.
- 86% 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 629 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 10h for positive, 4.8h 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 (85.8% 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 (35)
- Intern Ten responses revealed! 100%
- Twenty Questions Twenty questions - well done! 100%
- Century One hundred questions asked! 87%
- House Officer One hundred responses revealed! 77%
- Curious Two hundred and fifty questions asked! 70%
- Movie Length Two hours played 66%
- Mind Games Fifty insanity points reached 61%
- Registrar Two hundred and fifty responses revealed! 58%
- Committed Five hundred questions asked! 56%
- Part Timer Four hours played 53%
- Practitioner Five hundred responses revealed! 44%
- Slightly Mad Two hundred insanity points reached 37%
- Inquisitive One thousand questions asked! 36%
- Day Tripper Eight hours played 32%
- Specialist Seven hundred and fifty responses revealed! 30%
- Slightly MDA Two hundred and fifty insanity points reached 28%
- Seeing Things Three hundred insanity points reached 18%
- Cher This You made Nathan sing a song. 17%
- Lucky Guess Solved in one 17%
- Consultant One thousand responses revealed! 15%
- Thorough Two thousand questions asked! 10%
- Two Working Days Sixteen hours played 8.0%
- Second Time Lucky Solved in two 7.9%
- Hundy Hints Excellent hint usage. 7.8%
- Totes Mad Three hundred and fifty insanity points reached 7.8%
- Three is the Magic Number Solved in three 6.3%
- Hinty Aftertaste It's a bit hinty in here. 5.8%
- How Un-Four-tunate Solved in four 5.4%
- Late Shift Twenty hours played 4.9%
- Epic Justice Fail Solved in six 4.7%
- Have You Been Drinking? Solved in five 4.7%
- Employee of the Month Twenty five hours played 3.6%
- Youthulhu Four hundred insanity points reached 2.9%
- Hintless Wonder Zero hints, and you absolutely didn't cheat at all. 2.8%
- Dictionary Three thousand questions asked! 2.7%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-21.