ActionAdventureRPG
DESOLATE
Give it 4 hours
Gets good by 4h then rated almost like by veterans
Fully opens up by 7h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 56% of owners
Steam reviews 66% positive of 8,081
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (65%); after 7h it's 1 in 5 (21%).
- Fully opens up by hour 7.
- The opening is criticised more than in 93% of games we track.
- Most players drop off before “From the Very Beginning” (Complete the prologue): only 61% of starters get there.
- Only 56% 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 8,116 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 288 reviews: 15.6h for positive, 6.1h 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 (56.3% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- From the Very Beginning Complete the prologue Most players quit here 61% −39
- Why Did I Sign Up for This Complete the first chapter 33% −28
- The Truth Will Out Complete the second chapter 18% −15
- Who Am I? Complete the third chapter 12% −6
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (72)
story milestone ending side
- Cute Dog Kill a Dorg 100%
- Arts & Crafts Craft your first item 92%
- Heartless Gravity Experience the gravitational anomaly for yourself 88%
- What Is This New Devilry? Witness an anomalous vision. 87%
- Easy-Squeezy Kill a Marauder 83%
- Law and Order Kill an NL employee 80%
- No Place for Children Meet Lily 76%
- Home Sweet Home Complete the Oasis quest 71%
- It’s All Ahead of You Reach level 5 68%
- 2k19 volt Experience the electrical anomaly for yourself 63%
- From the Very Beginning Complete the prologue 61%
- Need a Repairman? Fix any workbench in the game 59%
- This Is Madness Kill 10 Madmen 55%
- Kitten to Tiger Kill a Sapsy 52%
- Through Space and Time Enter the black hole 51%
- Young Naturalist Kill a Gorlan 46%
- Miss Granichny 2019 Kill a Churaka 45%
- Quack Quack Kill a Quacker 43%
- Safe Cracker Open a lvl. 2 or higher locked container 38%
- Creature from the Deep Kill a Wanogah 36%
- Why Did I Sign Up for This Complete the first chapter 33%
- Personal Workshop Repair and upgrade all the workbenches in your room 27%
- The Hunter Becomes the Hunted Kill a Hunter 27%
- Fall of Goliath Kill a Grutch 25%
- Careful Preparation Get level 3 Research on one of the creatures 23%
- Underground Life Complete the Podzemka quest 22%
- Novice Gumshoe Complete the Mysterious Murders side quest 21%
- Running Errands Complete a random quest 20%
- Novice Hunter Complete the first Hunt quest 18%
- Pneumatic Technology Use a Pneumolift 18%
- The Truth Will Out Complete the second chapter 18%
- Hot Experience the infernal anomaly for yourself 17%
- Lift Operator Restore all the pneumolift lines to working order 16%
- Abnormal Physics Experience the all the anomalies for yourself 15%
- The Fight Begins Help the locals liberate their first location 14%
- Granichny’s Occultism Complete the Church side quest 14%
- Survivor Survive 10 hours of real time without dying. 14%
- Mother of Ruptures Compete the Mercy quest 13%
- Assistant Reach the rank of 2 with the engineer 13%
- Decorator Change the carpet, sofa, and walls of your room. 13%
- Student Reach the rank of 2 with the biologist 12%
- Who Am I? Complete the third chapter 12%
- Junkyard Sell stuff to item traders for more than 20,000 parts 11%
- X-perimental Technology Complete the New Technology side quest 11%
- Beast's Lair Complete the Missing Corpses side quest 10%
- Volunteer Reach the rank of 10 with the locals 10%
- Perfection Knows No Bounds Reach level 40 10%
- Painful Blindness Complete the Painful Blindness side quest 8.3%
- Recovering What’s Lost Help the locals liberate all the locations 7.5%
- Aide to Science Reach the rank of 2 with the scientist 7.5%
- Granichny Animal Control Complete the all the Hunt quests 7.1%
- Geolocation Repair all the retranslators in the game 6.7%
- Our Man Reach the rank of 60 with the locals 6.6%
- Molecular Teleportation Repair all the monoliths in the game 6.2%
- Fishing for Artifacts Get your first artifact from an anomaly 6.0%
- Ninja Kill an enemy with a kunai 5.9%
- Ideal Equipment Equip armor, backpack, and weapon purple quality or higher 5.7%
- Pocket Teleportation Use the Teleporter artifact 5.5%
- Companion Reach the rank of 5 with the engineer 5.2%
- Big Boom Kill an enemy with a grenade 4.8%
- Repair Artist Fix all the workbenches outside your room 4.3%
- Athlete fisherman Get 10 artifacts from an anomaly 3.6%
- Visit with a Sadist Kill the Butcher 5 times 3.4%
- Scientific Colleague Reach the rank of 5 with the scientist 3.2%
- Poster Collector Collect all the posters of Granichny 3.2%
- What Kind of Weird Stuff... Collect all the relics of Granichny 3.2%
- Biology Is My Friend Reach the rank of 5 with the biologist 3.0%
- Guide Kill the Blindman 5 times 2.7%
- Pack-Rat Collect all the tokens of Granichny 2.7%
- Gourmet Eat 30 different crafted dishes 2.7%
- Mixologist Drink 9 different crafted drinks 2.5%
- That’s All, Folks Earn all the achievements in DESOLATE 2.5%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-19.