ViolentGoreActionAdventureIndie
Apocryph: an old-school shooter
Hooks you right away
Gets good instantly from the first hour
Started playing 59% of owners
Steam reviews 52% positive of 317
What the data shows
- 37% of first-hour reviews are positive — about the same as players with 3+ hours (37%).
- The opening is criticised more than in 86% of games we track.
- Few early reviews, so this is a rough estimate.
- Only 59% 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 320 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 290 reviews: 3.5h for positive, 1h 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 (59.2% 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 (10)
- Looter Pick up a total amount of 100 items. 100%
- Dead Serious Die for the first time. 98%
- Deeper Into Darkness Reach The City Below 42%
- Very Dead Die a total amount of 10 times. 37%
- Slayer Kill a total amount of 1000 monsters. 31%
- Jinxed Die from colliding with world boundaries. 28%
- Curious Find 10 Secrets. 25%
- Size Doesn't Matter Slay the Guardian Titan. 22%
- Cheater! Enable a cheat code. 12%
- David Slay the Guardian Titan on Immortal And Eternal Reaper difficulty. 8.3%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-21.