Hours played
How long do people play Outlast?
Half of its Steam reviewers had played 5.5 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 3 hours and 9.5 hours.
First 2 h
93% recommend
2–5 h
96% recommend
5–10 h
97% recommend
10–20 h
98% recommend
20–50 h
99% recommend
50–100 h
98% recommend
100–200 h
98% recommend
200–500 h
500 h and up
One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Amber recommends it, red does not. Counted from about 140,000 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.
Does Outlast hold up?
It holds steady: between 96% and 99% recommend it at every stage past the first two hours.
The refund window
Do the first two hours of Outlast tell you?
18% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 93% of those recommend it. After the window, 97% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 67% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 3.5 hours in.
Out of every 20 thumbs-down, 7 came while a refund was still possible and 13 after the window had closed.
Seal
Outlast holds up
Holds up
At least 95% of its Steam reviewers recommend it at every stage from 2 to 200 hours played.
Earned when at least 90% of a game's Steam reviewers recommend it at every stage past the first two hours, counted over three or more stages of 200 reviews each, with no stage 5 points below an earlier one. Every game that holds it.
Made this game? Put the seal on your site
<a href="https://www.videogamebacklog.com/game/outlast#seals"><img src="https://www.videogamebacklog.com/game/outlast/seal/holds-up.png" width="160" height="160" alt="Outlast: Holds up. At least 95% of its Steam reviewers recommend it at every stage from 2 to 200 hours played."></a>Where players stop
How far do players get in Outlast?
50% of the players who launched Outlast hold ILLUMINATED, its first story achievement on Steam, and 25% hold PUNISHED, its last. The steepest drop comes between ILLUMINATED (50%) and FLUSHED (39%).
Launched it
100%
ILLUMINATED
Restore power to the Administrative Block
50% hold it
The wall · 11 of every 100 get no further
FLUSHED
Drain the Sewers
39% hold it
SOAKED
Activate the sprinklers in the Male Ward
31% hold it
EMANCIPATED
Collect the key in the Female Ward
27% hold it
PUNISHED
Finish the game
25% hold it
One token is 1 of every 100 players who launched it, standing at the last story achievement they hold. Red stopped at the wall, amber hold the last one. Steam's global achievement stats count everyone who ever launched the game, people still playing included. They are not a finish rate.
Everyone's copy
16 of 42 copies here were never launched
In 42 libraries here. 16 never launched it; the typical player who did put in 3.8 h. 1 finished it.
Name 100
How well it's remembered
Named in 9.5% of Name 100 runs, about 1 in 11: people remember it when asked to name 100 games from memory.