Dishonored®: Death of the Outsider™
Give it 7 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 3 reviews are negative (38%); after 15h it's 1 in 14 (7%).
- Fully opens up by hour 15.
- At least 48% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “Uncaged” (Freed the assassin Daud) and “Two Turns” (Took both bank vault keys): from 100% to 77% of starters.
- 81% 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 13,513 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 300 reviews: 11.1h for positive, 7.4h 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 (81.4% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Uncaged Freed the assassin Daud 100%
- Two Turns Took both bank vault keys Most players quit here 77% −23
- Twin-bladed Knife Obtained an ancient weapon 69% −8
- Gnosis Recovered the stolen archive 65% −3
- Dead Eye Touched the Eye of the Dead God 63% −3
- Final Release Returned the Outsider to the mortal world ≥48% −14
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 (30)
story milestone ending side
- Uncaged Freed the assassin Daud 100%
- Rat Whisperer Listened to what swarms of rats have to say 5 times 89%
- Two Turns Took both bank vault keys 77%
- Twin-bladed Knife Obtained an ancient weapon 69%
- Gnosis Recovered the stolen archive 65%
- Dead Eye Touched the Eye of the Dead God 63%
- Occupational Hazard Made an enemy explode into pieces using Displace 61%
- Obsessive Safe-cracker Opened every safe inside the main vault 51%
- Agent of Mercy Finished a mission without killing anyone 50%
- Final Release Returned the Outsider to the mortal world 48%
- Public Shaming Dropped Ivan Jacobi through the trapdoor 39%
- Deicide Killed the Outsider 38%
- Harder than Stone Destroyed an Envisioned cultist 37%
- Big-time Player Won the auction at Colibron Plaza 31%
- Nightingale Used Semblance to mimic Shan Yun and sing into the microphone 29%
- Salute! Had a guard salute you 27%
- Final Nudge Pushed an enemy to his demise using Void Strike 27%
- Party Crasher Sent the vault crashing through the floor 26%
- Clever Planning Used Displace on a marker placed with Foresight and eliminated a target 25%
- Side Effects Made 3 people vomit using a single bottle of Plagued Spirit 22%
- The Face of the Abbey Attended the meeting as Brother Cardoza 18%
- Mightier than the Sword Shot a guard in the head with a fountain pen 16%
- Shadow Finished the game without being detected 16%
- Golden Locks Stole the audiograph from the gallery without disabling the safeguard floor 16%
- Mercenary Work Completed all contracts 15%
- Hooked Sent someone flying 40 meters using Hook Mines 15%
- Art Aficionado Collected all Eleuterio Cienfuegos paintings 14%
- Voices Broke 4 Oraculum censers and listened to the prophecies 12%
- Good Old Times Finished the Original Game+ 12%
- The Perfect Crime Emptied the vault without tampering with any security systems, leaving everyone unharmed and asleep 10%