West of Loathing
Hooks you almost right away
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 8 reviews are negative (12%); after 10h it's 1 in 90 (1%).
- Fully opens up by hour 10.
- The opening is criticised less than in 88% of games we track.
- At least 33% of players who start reach the ending.
- Only 58% 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 10,383 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 300 reviews: 14.2h for positive, 5.2h 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 (57.5% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- I Love the Way You Shoot Finish the game with Susie Cochrane ≥33% −67
story milestone ending (most common 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
- In a Row? Discover 37 map locations out West 100%
- Looking a Ghost Horse in the Mouth Buy a pale horse 82%
- Horse Senseless Buy a crazy horse 66%
- A Real Underdog Buy a dark horse 65%
- Our Daily Bread Solve all of Breadwood's problems 58%
- KUZPA HOPA Learn 69 El Vibrato words 49%
- WANTED: Alive Fully populate the Dirtwater jail 37%
- I Love the Way You Shoot Finish the game with Susie Cochrane 33%
- Won't You Come Out Tonight Reanimate Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Bill 29%
- No Country for Old Gods Contain Roberto 28%
- What's Up, Doc? Finish the game with Doc Alice 25%
- Number One With a Bullet Discovered the true secret of Gun Manor 21%
- Unrequited Loved a spittoon that didn't love you back (in Gun Manor) 20%
- Yes! Yes! To Finishing! Finish the game with Gary the Goblin 17%
- WANTED: Dead Fully populate the Dirtwater morgue 17%
- Meat Mystery Find Curly's Meat 17%
- Emperormaker Give Norton a crown 16%
- Spirit Guide Dealt with all 13 of the Gun Manor ghosts peacefully 16%
- The Blackest Hat Become the Necromancer 15%
- The Terrible Secret of Cotton Candy Learn how cotton candy is made 14%
- Contributing to the Delinquency of a Miner Finish the game with Crazy Pete 14%
- Quakin' In Your Boots Endure all 10 jump scares in Gun Manor 12%
- A Fistful of Cutlets Leave Boring Springs with 1337 Meat 9.6%
- Under Pressure Blow yourself up at Kellogg Ranch 8.3%
- The Hard Way Finish the game with the Hard Hat 7.7%
- These Violent Ghosts Have Violent Ends Reckoned with all 13 of the Gun Manor ghosts 6.1%
- Three Bridges Too Far Build three kinds of bridges (over three playthroughs) 5.7%
- The Really Hard Way Finish the game with the Hard Hat in a single game day 5.0%