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2025 · RPG · Story Rich · Choices Matter

How long isBack to the Dawn?

31 hours

for the typical playerhalf of them between 13 hours and 60 hours

A bargain: 77¢ an hour, cheaper than 190 of 200 detective games here.

Does Back to the Dawn hold up?

Holds steady

Do the first two hours of Back to the Dawn tell you?

In the first two hours86%recommend it

After that95%recommend it

18 of every 20 thumbs-down came after the window had closed, 2 while a refund was still possible.

How this is counted

Half of its Steam reviewers had played 31 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 13 hours and 60 hours.

One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 10,600 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.

It holds steady: between 90% and 98% recommend it at every stage past the first two hours.

4% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 86% of those recommend it. After the window, 95% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 90% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 15 hours in.

When would you get there?

4weeks

At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 31 hours on Saturday, November 21.

Half of its reviewers had played between 13 and 60 hours: Nov 3 to Dec 20 at this pace.

How this is counted

The typical player's hours are the hours Steam reviewers had played when they wrote their review, not a time to beat. The days count from today, playing the hours the pace says on each day.

Where do players get filtered in Back to the Dawn?

The filter

Temperance

15 of every 100 players got to this one and no further.

They hold The Fool and never earned it.

  1. Launched it100% launched it
  2. The Fool"Heheh, you'll regret your foolishness..."−2377% hold it
  3. Temperance"It's just an ordinary business card... although it seems they offer more than just drinks."Filtered −1562% hold it
  4. The World"There'll always be unfortunate people in this world. It's either them or us."−1250% hold it
  5. Wheel of Fortune"The one thing we need is stuck in the prison's storeroom."−545% hold it
  6. The Empress"No rest for the wicked..."−540% hold it
How this is counted

77% of the players who launched Back to the Dawn hold The Fool, its first story achievement on Steam, and 40% hold The Empress, its last. The steepest drop comes between The Fool (77%) and Temperance (62%).

Steam's global achievement stats count everyone who ever launched the game, people still playing included. They are not a finish rate. The filter is the steepest drop between two story achievements; the players who never reached the first one barely started, and are never the filter.

Is Back to the Dawn worth it?

Is Back to the Dawn worth it? Yes.

  • A steal

    2.6× the hours of a typical detective game, for the same money

  • Loved

    95% recommend it after the refund windowmost detective games: 91%

How this is counted

At Steam's US list price of $23.99, the typical player's 31 hours come to 77¢ an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 95% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. At 77¢ an hour, Back to the Dawn is cheaper per hour than 190 of 200 detective games here: the typical one of 200 detective games here charges $2.04, so the same $23.99 buys 2.6× the hours.

The price is Steam's US list price for the game by itself: not a sale price, a bundle or what anyone paid. The hours are the ones its reviewers had played, not a time to beat. Its kind (detective games) is what the game is first, as a model that knows games named it once from a list of Steam's kinds (for a game it did not know, its strongest Steam tags name it), among the kinds with at least 20 priced games here; failing that, by its Steam genre. The going rate is the middle hourly cost of those games, and the receipt prices its typical hours at it. The words beside it compare it with its kind: loved is 90% recommending it or more, liked 80%, mixed 65%; it gets played when a quarter fewer of the owners read here never launched it than of its kind's typical game. Whether it holds up is drawn on the hours road above, and counts toward the one-word answer.

Would you like Back to the Dawn?

Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like Back to the Dawn, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long Back to the Dawn would take you. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.

How this is counted

It reads how long you tend to stay: across every game you've played whose typical hours it knows (free games left out), how often you went past the typical player and how often you left before half their hours. It glows when you often stay past them, dims when you often leave early, and needs five played games to read at all. Then it shows the games you own most like this one, by the same measure as the shelf of games like it, each with your hours against the typical player's.

Why not a forecast for this game: on 36,766 Steam libraries, how a player did on games like one told little beyond how long they stay in games at all, so those games are shown as evidence and never scored. Nothing of the library is kept.

Games like Back to the Dawn

All 30 games like Back to the Dawn, and which you already own
How this is counted

The same series first, then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the better known ahead among the about as alike. A model that knows games read the list once: the ones it said do not play like this game are left out, the closest come first. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.