ActionAdventureIndie
SteamWorld Dig 2
Give it 3 hours
Gets good by 3h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 7h rated like by long-time players
Reach the ending 43% of players who started
Started playing 78% of owners
Steam reviews 96% positive of 9,165
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 5 reviews are negative (21%); after 10h it's 1 in 55 (2%).
- Fully opens up by hour 7.
- 42% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “The Guiding Light” (Defeat the first boss) and “A Mysterious Garden”: from 100% to 70% of starters.
- 78% 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 9,236 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 248 reviews: 10.6h for positive, 4.5h 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 (77.8% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- The Guiding Light Defeat the first boss. 100%
- A Mysterious Garden Enter Yarrow and discover a strangely verdant area. Most players quit here 70% −30
- A Shining City Discover the last refuge of a fallen civilization, The Oasis. 64% −6
- The Enlightened Defeat the Great Prophet. 53% −11
- Ghost of the Machine Escape the grasp of Vectron. 50% −3
- A New Frontier Leave the Earth with your companion in tow. 43% −7
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (34)
story milestone ending side
- The Guiding Light Defeat the first boss. 100%
- A Mysterious Garden Enter Yarrow and discover a strangely verdant area. 70%
- A Shining City Discover the last refuge of a fallen civilization, The Oasis. 64%
- Cave Diver Complete 5 caves. 61%
- At Least It’s Shiny Collect 10 Silver ore resources. 57%
- The Enlightened Defeat the Great Prophet. 53%
- It Makes the World Go Round Sell $2,500 worth of resources. 51%
- Ghost of the Machine Escape the grasp of Vectron. 50%
- Hobbyist Collector Collect 10 artifacts. 49%
- Two Birds, One Stone Kill two enemies with one crushing rock. 46%
- A New Frontier Leave the Earth with your companion in tow. 43%
- Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Bot Hit 15 flyers with your Hook Shot. 41%
- Maximum Potential Reach experience level 14. 41%
- Is It Even a Pickaxe Anymore? Upgrade your pickaxe to the highest level possible. 38%
- Barnacle’s BFF Sell $10,000 worth of resources. 38%
- Splendiferous Spelunker Complete 20 challenge caves. 37%
- Right Back At Ya! Kill an enemy with its own projectile. 35%
- My Very Own Sun Upgrade your lamp to the highest level possible. 35%
- That’s Armor-e Upgrade your armor to the highest level possible. 33%
- Skilled Collector Collect 25 artifacts. 30%
- Hard Carry Upgrade your backpack to the highest level possible. 28%
- Gold Farmer Finish the game with a gold star in the Wealth category. Get filthy rich! 27%
- O Brother, Where Art Thou? Find all missing Yonker brothers. 19%
- Master Collector Collect 42 artifacts. 15%
- Hopeless Gearhead Buy all upgrades available at the workbench. 14%
- Solid Sneak Do not trigger the alarm in Vectron more than twice. 13%
- Hook, Line and Sinker Collect 15 resources with your Hook Shot. 7.8%
- Explorer Finish the game with a gold star in the Secrets category. 6.9%
- Lazy Person Travel a distance of 100 tiles horizontally without touching the controls. 6.9%
- To Hell and Back Survive the Ultimate Trial. 5.0%
- Sequence Breaker Destroy all devices without entering Vectron. 4.5%
- Speedrunner Finish the game with a gold star in the Time category. How fast is that, exactly? It’s up to you to find out! 4.0%
- Hardcore Finish the game with a gold star in the Deaths category. You can’t even die once, buddy! 3.9%
- The Impossible Dream Finish the game with a gold star in every category. 3.3%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-19.