ActionRPG
The Surge 2
Give it 10 hours
Gets good by 10h then rated almost like by veterans
Fully opens up by 20h rated like by long-time players
Reach the ending at least 15% of players who started
Started playing 79% of owners
Steam reviews 75% positive of 9,656
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours most reviews are negative (68%); after 20h it's 1 in 12 (9%).
- Fully opens up by hour 20.
- The opening is criticised more than in 94% of games we track.
- At least 15% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “Jailbreak” (Defeated Warden Garcia) and “Overheated” (Defeated Little Johnny): from 86% to 46% of starters.
- 79% 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 9,720 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 296 reviews: 26h for positive, 4.3h 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 (79.4% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Jailbreak Defeated Warden Garcia 86% −14
- Overheated Defeated Little Johnny Most players quit here 46% −40
- Studied The Blade Defeated Captain Cervantes 38% −7
- Home Invasion Defeated Delver 36% −2
- Court Martial Defeated Major General Ezra Shields 31% −5
- Dead Again Defeated Brother Eli twice 30% −1
- Mommy Dearest Defeated Matriarch Celeste 26% −5
- Bad Dog Defeated H.A.R.O.L.D 25%
- Corrupted Beauty Defeated Goddess Helena 24% −1
- Denying Prophecy Defeated Archangel Eli 23% −1
- Reborn Be purified by Athena, cleansed of all imperfections. ≥15% −8
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 (57)
story milestone ending side
- Rigged And Ready Acquired an Exo-Rig 100%
- Don't I Know You...? Helped Benjamin Burke 96%
- Jailbreak Defeated Warden Garcia 86%
- Suited and Booted Equip a full gear set 56%
- HEADSHOT! Kill an enemy with a headshot 56%
- Sleeping With The Fishes Drown an enemy in deep water 52%
- High Performance Receive a special reward from a boss 46%
- Overheated Defeated Little Johnny 46%
- Powered Up Reach Core Power 50 42%
- Studied The Blade Defeated Captain Cervantes 38%
- Home Invasion Defeated Delver 36%
- Offensive Defense Perform 30 directional blocks 36%
- Luminary Met Guttenberg 36%
- It's a Trap Disable an A.I.D. checkpoint scanner gate without triggering its alarm. 35%
- Shocking Use the EMP-44 'Starfish' on an enemy 34%
- True Survivor Met Warren 34%
- Clean Cut Cut an enemy's limb with the follow-up to a backstab kick 32%
- Unforeseeable Consequences Discovered the Utopia rocket crash site 32%
- Court Martial Defeated Major General Ezra Shields 31%
- Dead Again Defeated Brother Eli twice 30%
- Full Arsenal Collect 50 weapons 29%
- Risk Tolerant Kill a boss while carrying 30,000 Tech Scrap 26%
- Mommy Dearest Defeated Matriarch Celeste 26%
- Bad Dog Defeated H.A.R.O.L.D 25%
- Can't Trust Banks Carry 100,000 Techscrap 25%
- What A Catchy Song Activated the Ops Center in the CREO Institute of Technology 25%
- Corrupted Beauty Defeated Goddess Helena 24%
- Where It All Began Revisited the Detention Center 24%
- Denying Prophecy Defeated Archangel Eli 23%
- Marked For Success Upgrade a weapon to maximum level 22%
- Sorry, Didn't See You There Kill a cloaked Hunter 20%
- Stimulating The Local Economy Spend 50,000 tech scrap at vendors 19%
- Triplets Defeat all Delver Echoes 19%
- A Little Banged Up Survived the plane crash in NG+ 19%
- Following In Their Footsteps Collect 10 Strange Visions 17%
- Defense in Depth Upgrade all gear pieces in a set to maximum level 16%
- Reborn Be purified by Athena, cleansed of all imperfections. 15%
- Reverse Engineering Kill a Gideon's Rock statue with its own weapon 13%
- Hello Darkness My Old Friend Be transformed by Athena into a dark avenger, ready to reshape the world. 13%
- Counter-Sniper Killed all enemies operating sniper turrets 11%
- Remote Surgery Cut off each limb of a humanoid enemy using your drone 10%
- Turbo Booster Completed plan B in the drive-in theater8 9.6%
- Geronimo! Fell into the Underground 9.4%
- Squid Pro Quo Defeated CAIN - Core Protector 9.4%
- Juiced Up Completed Proto's Sidequest 8.4%
- Shrimp Cocktail Killed 30 robotic crabs (any type) 7.8%
- Plank of Wood Pushed the pirate attacker from the plank 7.3%
- It Lives! It Sniffs! It Conquers! Equip the IRONMAUS set and the Justice of the Iron Maus weapon 6.8%
- Homewrecker Completed Norm's Sidequest 6.5%
- Gotta Craft 'em All Craft 20 Gear Sets 6.3%
- Own Medicine Kill a Delver Echo with the Helix of the Delver or Helix of the Delver V2.0 5.8%
- Loot, Pillage & Craft Crafted all gear sets of the Kraken DLC 4.7%
- Three Birds With One Stone Kill 3 enemies at once using the homing missile 4.4%
- Going Postal Destroyed all mailboxes 4.2%
- Box Office Smash Entertained Proto by completing 25 enemy waves (up to his second break offer) 4.0%
- Swiss Army Drone Acquire all combat drone modules 3.9%
- The Easy Way Out Used the plank to jump off the ship 3.8%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-19.