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The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners
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 24% of players who started
Started playing 43% of owners
Steam reviews 85% positive of 10,119
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours almost 1 in 2 reviews are negative (40%); after 10h it's 1 in 25 (4%).
- Fully opens up by hour 10.
- 24% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “The Man on the Radio” (Make Contact with Casey) and “New Orleans Most Wanted” (Meet May): from 99% to 54% of starters.
- Only 43% 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 10,223 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 298 reviews: 10.1h for positive, 0.9h 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 (43.1% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- The Man on the Radio Make Contact with Casey 99% −1
- New Orleans Most Wanted Meet May Most players quit here 55% −44
- Not a Plumber Repair the first pump 41% −13
- Key to the Reserve Get the key to the Reserve 35% −6
- For Whom The Bell Tolls Decide May's fate 25% −10
- No Reservations Decide Casey's fate 24% −2
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (45)
story milestone ending side
- Over-Encumbered Fill every slot in your backpack 100%
- The Man on the Radio Make Contact with Casey 99%
- Ghost Walker Kill 15 unaware enemies 97%
- New Orleans Most Wanted Meet May 55%
- The Hugger Grapple with walkers 50 times 55%
- Hypochondriac Take medicine while you have no trace of sickness 44%
- Shaken, Not Stirred Survive a stirred herd for 2 minutes 44%
- Braaaaiiiiins Brain 100 Walkers 42%
- Not a Plumber Repair the first pump 41%
- Sinner Kill 30 humans 40%
- Key to the Reserve Get the key to the Reserve 35%
- Chalk Up Climb a total of 50 meters. 34%
- Negan's Dozen Kill 13 walkers with a spiked baseball bat 33%
- The Tourist Visit all locations 30%
- Pew Pew Craft 5 different items from the Gun Station 28%
- For Whom The Bell Tolls Decide May's fate 25%
- Kid's Got Talent Find an important Ambre Drawing 25%
- What is a Beast? Meet JB 24%
- Maybe You've Heard of Me Meet Georgia 24%
- No Reservations Decide Casey's fate 24%
- Gearhead Fully Upgrade the Gear Station 23%
- Improvise. Adapt. Overcome. Craft 5 different items from the Survivalist Station 22%
- Gun Nut Fully Upgrade the Gun Station 20%
- Screw's Loose Brain 20 walkers with a screw driver 20%
- Arsonist Kill 3 enemies in a single propane tank explosion 19%
- The Stig Craft 5 different items from the Gear Station 19%
- Survivalist Fully Upgrade the Survival Station 16%
- Hard Core Survive 30 complete days in New Orleans (waking up, traveling to a location, and sleeping at night) 14%
- Bourbon Street Pharmacist Craft all types of meds and bandages (1 of each) 11%
- Truffle Shuffle Eat 3 Twinkle Toes 8.4%
- Safecracker Open every safe 5.8%
- Blood Bath & Beyond Collect 5 pillows and bring them back to the bus 5.6%
- Pyro Ignite a propane tank with an explosive arrow 5.6%
- Gourmand Craft and eat one of each craftable food item 5.3%
- Junk Foodie Eat 10 low quality food items 4.6%
- Master of the Craft Unlock all craftables (including found recipes) 4.4%
- Completionist Unlock all craftables and complete the story 3.9%
- Fly like a Pelican Score a basket in the Rampart gymnasium with a basketball 3.9%
- Propane Accessories Kill 10 enemies with propane tank explosions 3.9%
- "You wear intestines well." Speak to a character while in guts-mode 3.9%
- The Connoisseur Eat 10 different food items in one day cycle 3.7%
- Honorary Whisperer Use guts-mode 15 times. 3.5%
- All the Angels and Saints Collect every angel statue and bring them back to the bus 2.6%
- Saint Give up a total of 10 items to survivors in need. 2.6%
- Axeman's Jazz Kill 10 elite walkers by braining them with the Esteemed Mortal 2.3%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-18.