ActionAdventure
Generation Zero®
The first 3 hours are a test
Gets good by 3h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 20h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 95% of owners
Steam reviews 72% positive of 42,324
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (66%); after 20h it's 1 in 6 (17%).
- Fully opens up by hour 20.
- The opening is criticised more than in 94% of games we track.
- Most players drop off before “Grey Dawn” (Complete all Intro Missions): only 60% of starters get there.
- 95% 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 42,654 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 290 reviews: 27.6h for positive, 19.1h 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 (94.7% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Grey Dawn Complete all Intro Missions. Most players quit here 60% −40
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
- First Blood Destroy your first machine. 100%
- Scavenger Find and take 80 items from the world. 92%
- Offence Is The Best Defence Destroy 3 machines without taking damage. 90%
- Modder Attach a mod to a weapon. 78%
- Fika Club Unlock 5 safehouses. 66%
- Assist Deal more than 50% of the damage to an enemy killed by another player. 60%
- Grey Dawn Complete all Intro Missions. 60%
- Gunslinger Use handgun to destroy 20 machines. 57%
- You're A Disease And I'm The Cure Destroy 20 Ticks. 48%
- Spare Parts Scavenge a vision module from a machine. 48%
- Real Sneaky Like Use suppressed weapons to destroy 20 enemies. 46%
- All Out Of Bubblegum Destroy 80 Runners. 44%
- I Just Called To Say I Love You Listen to the messages left on 5 different answering machines. 43%
- Hunter Use hunting rifles to destroy 20 machines. 42%
- Hot Property Have 8 machines simultaneously lured to the same flare. 34%
- Splash Damage Destroy more than one machine at the same time using the m/49 Granatgevär or a hand grenade. 33%
- Go Ahead, Make My Day Destroy 30 Hunters. 30%
- Gustafsloppet Travel 90 km on foot. 28%
- Commando Use assault rifles to destroy 80 machines. 26%
- Operator Use shotguns to destroy 40 machines. 26%
- Sapper Use explosives to destroy 15 machines. 26%
- Explorer Discover 50 locations. 25%
- Siren Call Use a boombox to lure an enemy. 22%
- Kill Switch Destroy 10 relay beacons. 22%
- Player Two Create a second character. 22%
- Decimation Destroy 500 machines. 21%
- Overkill Shoot a Seeker with the m/49 Granatgevär. 21%
- Hasta La Vista Baby Destroy 30 Seekers. 21%
- Gangster Use submachine guns to destroy 60 machines. 20%
- One Shot Destroy a Hunter with a single shot. 18%
- Marksman Destroy an enemy with a shot fired from 300 meters away. 15%
- Tunnel Rat Discover 5 bunkers. 15%
- Say Hello To My Little Friend Destroy 15 Tanks. 15%
- Not Today, FNIX! Defeat a Rival. 14%
- Elementary Complete the Main Mission "Empty Spaces". 13%
- Adapt and Evolve Destroy one of each Apocalypse Class machine: Tick, Runner, Hunter and Tank. 13%
- He's Out There Free the survivor in the destroyed villa during the mission "The Ringfort". 11%
- Yippee-Ki-Yay Destroy 15 Harvesters. 11%
- Fashionista Collect 200 items of apparel. 11%
- Lock & Load Fully equip a level 5 weapon with level 5 mods. 11%
- Folk Wisdom Read 10 different sayings in homes. 11%
- Go-Getter Complete 25 Side Missions. 10%
- Other Survivors Complete the mission "Not Alone". 9.3%
- Private Property Complete the mission "Tidal Wave". 9.0%
- We're Fully Booked Complete the mission "For the Sick and the Injured". 8.7%
- My Friend Complete the Main Mission "The Enemy of my Enemy". 8.6%
- Rise Of The Phoenix Complete the Main Mission "Behind the Curtain". 8.0%
- If It Bleeds, We Can Kill It. Complete the Main Mission "A Wrench in the Works". 7.8%
- Outside in the Distance Complete the mission "Nothing but the Snow". 7.7%
- The Sum of its Parts Complete the mission "Test Run". 7.6%
- Secrets Locked Away Complete the mission "The Hellmouth". 7.2%
- I Want To Be A Mighty Pirate! Loot something while wearing an eyepatch. 7.1%
- Protector of the Resistance Complete the mission "The Resistance". 6.8%
- It's Been Fun Complete the mission "New Cycles". 6.8%
- End of the Road Complete the mission "Good Night". 6.7%
- It's The Final Countdown Complete all Main Missions. 6.3%
- From a Distance Use a hunting or sniper rifle to destroy 15 Seekers. 5.4%
- Light My Fire Climb to the top of 3 different lighthouses. 5.1%
- Wheels of Fortune Complete the side mission "In the Face of Adversity". 3.8%
- We are the Resistance Complete the side mission "We are the Resistance". 2.9%
- Postgraduate Have two separate characters with different active specializations. 2.5%
- Trial and Error Complete the side mission "The Virus". 2.5%
- Unorthodox Skiing Get from start to finish on the ski slope in under 40 seconds. 2.1%
- Room 237 Gain access to the mysteriously locked room of Björntunet Hotel. 1.9%
- Here's Pauli! Find out what happened to the missing guest of Björntunet Hotel. 1.6%
- Engineer Collect all machine blueprints. 1.3%
- Gardener Collect all garden gnomes. 1.2%
- DJ Collect all mixtapes. 1.2%
- Tourist Collect all souvenirs. 1.2%
- Vestiges Find all the audio logs on Himfjäll. 1.1%
- Running Wild Use a melee weapon to blow up 20 cars. 1.1%
- The Ones That Came Before Us Find all 20 "Survivor's Notes" and "Love Letters" Collectibles. 1.0%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-18.