What do players do right after a game over screen: retry, menu, or just leave?
The moment after a death is where horror games lose or keep people, but the log only has scattered clicks. This entry shows how to turn them into a clear answer for each death, including the many players who simply close the window or wander off, and how fast the ones who retry do it.
Why this works
What a player does after dying shows how the death felt. A quick retry means they want to go again; walking to the menu or closing the window means the game lost them, and the silent closing must be counted too.
When not to use it
Wrong when your game has no game over screen or restarts by itself, or when deaths are so rare that the sample is tiny. Watch a few players die and see what they do.
In the full entry
- What to build, step by step
- Starting values and the reason for each
- 3 common mistakes and the fix
- 41 lines of example code with 3 checks that pass
- How your AI shows you that it works
Say this to your AI
Use the Spielerando entry "What do players do right after a game over screen: retry, menu, or just leave?" (read_entry horror-game-over-screen-choice) in my game. Build it step by step, and show me how you checked that it works.Or skip this and connect the MCP: your AI then finds all of this by itself.Connect the MCP