ActionAdventureIndieRPG
Maneater
Give it 3 hours
Gets good by 3h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 10h rated like by long-time players
Reach the ending 34% of players who started
Started playing 92% of owners
Steam reviews 87% positive of 27,188
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours almost 1 in 2 reviews are negative (43%); after 10h it's 1 in 11 (9%).
- Fully opens up by hour 10.
- 34% of players who start reach the ending.
- Most players drop off before “Delicious” (Kill The Apex Predator in Dead Horse Lake): only 56% of starters get there.
- 92% 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 27,371 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 298 reviews: 13.2h for positive, 7.7h 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 (92.1% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Delicious Kill The Apex Predator in Dead Horse Lake Most players quit here 56% −44
- Shark on Shark Violence Kill The Apex Predator in Golden Shores 48% −8
- Gator Meat Kill The Apex Predator in Fawtick Bayou 47% −1
- Pound it Kill The Apex Predator in Sapphire Bay 43% −4
- This is My Movie Kill The Apex Predator in Prosperity Sands 38% −5
- Tricks Didn't Help Ya Kill The Apex Predator in Caviar Key 36% −2
- I Thought You Were Tough Kill The Apex Predator in The Gulf 34% −2
- The New Apex Predator Destroy all Apex Predators 34%
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (44)
story milestone ending side
- Learned To Swim Complete the tutorial 100%
- Survivor Survive Birth 97%
- Adaptation Evolve for the first time 93%
- Growing Up Reach Teen Growth 80%
- Infamy Level 1 Reach Infamy Level 1 65%
- On Your Own Reached Adult Growth 58%
- Delicious Kill The Apex Predator in Dead Horse Lake 56%
- Shark on Shark Violence Kill The Apex Predator in Golden Shores 48%
- Gator Meat Kill The Apex Predator in Fawtick Bayou 47%
- New Breed Acquire 50% of available evolutions 44%
- Pound it Kill The Apex Predator in Sapphire Bay 43%
- Wiser Reached Elder Growth 43%
- Survived Again Survive Again 42%
- Ocean Terror Reached Mega Growth 40%
- This is My Movie Kill The Apex Predator in Prosperity Sands 38%
- Tricks Didn't Help Ya Kill The Apex Predator in Caviar Key 36%
- I Thought You Were Tough Kill The Apex Predator in The Gulf 34%
- The New Apex Predator Destroy all Apex Predators 34%
- Vengeance is Mine Get revenge 32%
- Dominating the Bayou Complete all objectives in Fawtick Bayou 32%
- Infamy Level 10 Reach Infamy Level 10 31%
- Tourist Terror Complete all objectives in Golden Shores 26%
- Queen of the Wasteland Complete all objectives in Dead Horse Lake 25%
- Tourist Find all landmarks 24%
- Vacation from Hell Complete all objectives in Prosperity Sands 24%
- Dropping Property Values Complete all objectives in Sapphire Bay 23%
- I See Site P Reach the Plover Island Complex 23%
- Entertained to Death Complete all objectives in Caviar Key 22%
- Science Experiment Acquire 100% of available evolutions 21%
- Ruler of the Deep Complete all objectives in The Gulf 21%
- Electric Burn Kill the Electric Great White 21%
- Shadow Killer Kill the Shadow Orca 21%
- Bone Breaker Kill the Bone Sperm Whale 20%
- Garbage Collector Find all license plates 20%
- Deep Sea Explorer Find all nutrient caches 20%
- Atomic Bomb Acquire 100% of the Atomic Evolution set 20%
- Queen of the Ocean Reach 100% objective completion in all regions 19%
- 40 and Flirty Reach level 40 19%
- Four-Star Rank Defeat Adm. Barbara Terranova 17%
- Apex Eater Kill the Atomic Leviathan 14%
- Fan Fare Eat all the Questers 12%
- Island Queen Complete all objectives in the Plover Island Complex 12%
- Perfect Timing Complete 100% of the Time Trials 10%
- I Can Handle the Truth! Complete all available objective in Truth Quest 9.6%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-18.