2025 · VR · Shooter · FPS
How long isOnward?
by Downpour Interactive
10 hours
for the typical playerhalf of them between 4 hours and 27 hours
Divisive for its kind: only 72% recommend it past the refund window, reviewed worse than 321 of 368 first-person shooters here.
42% recommend it at 0 to 2 hours
77% recommend it at 2 to 5 hours
78% recommend it at 5 to 10 hours
74% recommend it at 10 to 20 hours
69% recommend it at 20 to 50 hours
63% recommend it at 50 to 100 hours
60% recommend it at 100 to 200 hours
60% recommend it at 200 to 500 hours
Does Onward hold up?
Wears thin
Do the first two hours of Onward tell you?
In the first two hours42%recommend it
After that72%recommend it
15 of every 20 thumbs-down came after the window had closed, 5 while a refund was still possible.
How this is counted
Half of its Steam reviewers had played 10 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 4 hours and 27 hours.
One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 9,330 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.
It is recommended most by players at 5–10 hours: 78% of them. Among players at 100–200 hours that falls to 60%.
14% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 42% of those recommend it. After the window, 72% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 75% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 10 hours in.
When would you get there?
10days
At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 10 hours on Friday, October 30.
Half of its reviewers had played between 4 and 27 hours: Oct 24 to Nov 16 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.
Is Onward worth it?
Video Game Backlog
One hour, at list price
Onward
- Steam list price, US
- $24.99
- Typical player
- ÷ 10 h
- first-person shooter rate
- $2.50/h
- 10 h at that rate
- $25
About the going rate
List price. Not a sale price,
not what anyone paid.
Is Onward worth it? Probably not.
Fair price
About what a typical first-person shooter charges: $2.50 an hour
Mixed
72% recommend it after the refund windowmost first-person shooters: 89%
How this is counted
At Steam's US list price of $24.99, the typical player's 10 hours come to $2.50 an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 72% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. An hour of Onward costs about what the typical one of 368 first-person shooters 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 (first-person shooters) is named by its strongest Steam tags, a narrow kind before a wide one, 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 Onward?
Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like Onward, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long Onward 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 Onward?
1 in 3,480
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.
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