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2026 · Action-Adventure · Platformer · Puzzle

How long isDarwin's Paradox?

5.5 hours

for the typical playerhalf of them between 3.5 hours and 8 hours

A brick wall partway in: one story step stops 34 in 100 of the players who launched it.

Do the first two hours of Darwin's Paradox tell you?

In the first two hours59%recommend it

After that91%recommend it

13 of every 20 thumbs-down came after the window had closed, 7 while a refund was still possible.

How this is counted

Half of its Steam reviewers had played 5.5 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 3.5 hours and 8 hours.

One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 1,300 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.

11% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 59% of those recommend it. After the window, 91% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 64% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 3.5 hours in.

When would you get there?

6days

At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 5.5 hours on Tuesday, October 27.

Half of its reviewers had played between 3.5 and 8 hours: Oct 25 to Oct 29 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 Darwin's Paradox?

The filter

Can’t Catch Me!

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

They hold Inked Away! and never earned it.

  1. Launched it100% launched it
  2. Inked Away!Escape the morays.−991% hold it
  3. Can’t Catch Me!Survive Steven The Seagull.Filtered −3457% hold it
  4. DARWIN 2 / GULL 0Survive Steven The Seagull again.−1146% hold it
  5. Didn't Follow The LightSurvive the lantern fish.−541% hold it
  6. Free At LastFree your friend.−338% hold it
  7. OOPS I Did It AgainDestroy the base.−137% hold it
  8. Fly Me To The MoonBack to the sea.. or not.−136% hold it
How this is counted

91% of the players who launched Darwin's Paradox hold Inked Away!, its first story achievement on Steam, and 36% hold Fly Me To The Moon, its last. The steepest drop comes between Inked Away! (91%) and Can’t Catch Me! (57%).

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 Darwin's Paradox worth it?

Is Darwin's Paradox worth it? It depends.

  • Pricey per hour

    A typical action-adventure gives 1.8× the hours for the money

  • Loved

    91% recommend it after the refund windowmost action-adventures: 89%

How this is counted

At Steam's US list price of $24.99, the typical player's 5.5 hours come to $4.54 an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 91% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. At $4.54 an hour, Darwin's Paradox costs more per hour than 426 of 501 action-adventures here: the typical one of 501 action-adventures here charges $2.50.

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 (action-adventures) 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 Darwin's Paradox?

Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like Darwin's Paradox, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long Darwin's Paradox 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.

What did people here do with Darwin's Paradox?

  • 1 in 3,498

    Name 100 runs say its name: players asked to name 100 games from memory

How this is counted

Counted from the Steam libraries read here and the pages kept here, not from all of Steam's players. A case is one owner, or one in twenty of them when there are more.

Games like Darwin's Paradox

All 30 games like Darwin's Paradox, 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.