IndieRPGSimulationStrategy
Going Medieval
Give it 3 hours
Gets good by 3h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 15h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 87% of owners
Steam reviews 89% positive of 21,544
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 3 reviews are negative (35%); after 20h it's 1 in 12 (9%).
- Fully opens up by hour 15.
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- 87% of owners got the first achievement.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 21,658 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 65h for positive, 21h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.
Where players quit
Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (87.4% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
This game has no story achievements, so we can't tell where players quit.
All achievements (94)
story milestone ending side
- Having A Field Day Harvest 5 Crops 100%
- The First Day Survive the First Day 99%
- Get A Room Build an Enclosed Room 96%
- Reap What You Sow Harvest 50 Crops 94%
- Novice Researcher Unlock First Research Item 94%
- Home Cooked Meal Produce a Meal at a Campfire 92%
- Green Thumb Harvest 200 Crops 86%
- The First Week Survive for Seven Days 80%
- Onward Unlock 3x Research Items 80%
- Beam Me Up Build a Wooden Beam 79%
- Putting Food on the Table Store 5000 Nutrition 78%
- ...And Don’t Come Back! Survive the First Raid 75%
- Retribution Kill a Raider 74%
- Heating Up Survive Until the First Summer 73%
- Studious Researcher Unlock 5x Research Items 73%
- Feast or Famine Store 10,000 Nutrition 69%
- Winter Is Coming Survive Until the First Autumn 64%
- Adept Researcher Unlock 10x Research Items 62%
- Oh Deer! Hunt 5x Deer 61%
- Fit For A King Store 20,000 Nutrition 57%
- Winter Is Here Survive Until the First Winter 56%
- All Year Round Survive a Full Year 51%
- Don't Cry Wolf Hunt 5x Wolves 44%
- Disassembled Dismantle 5x Items 42%
- Food Chain Hunt 5x Hares 42%
- Deerly Departed Hunt 20x Deer 38%
- A Party Now Gather 10x Settlers 37%
- Luminary Researcher Unlock 25x Research Items 37%
- Nothing Wasted Dismantle 50x items 29%
- Where Wolf? Hunt 20x Wolves 26%
- Wabbit Season Hunt 20x Hares 26%
- Casting Call Fish x5 Fish 17%
- Experiential Level up your settlers 100 times 16%
- Reel Skills Fish x20 Fish 14%
- Forging Ahead Craft x10 weapons 12%
- Throw Away the Key Take a Prisoner 12%
- Fifty Shades of Bait Fish x50 Fish 11%
- Shhh... Construct a Library 11%
- Hammer Time Construct a Workshop 10%
- Kitchen Impossible Construct a Kitchen 9.8%
- The Greatest Construct a Great Hall 9.7%
- Squeak & Destroy Hunt 5x Rat 9.4%
- Go Forth Send out a caravan 9.4%
- Outfoxed Hunt 5x Fox 8.1%
- House of the Holy Construct a Restitutionist Chapel 7.2%
- Finders Keepers Explore a Loot stash 6.9%
- In Hog Heaven Hunt 5x Boar 6.5%
- Rat-astrophe Hunt 20x Rat 6.3%
- What's Up, Doc? Construct a Medical Room 5.9%
- Temple of Timber Construct a Oak Brethren Chapel 5.6%
- Bury the Hatchet Recruit a Prisoner 5.1%
- Jailhouse Rock Take 5x prisoners 4.6%
- Fine Art Craft x5 works of art 3.8%
- Full House Have x5 settlers with roles in one settlement 3.3%
- Zero Fox Given Hunt 20x Fox 3.1%
- Beyond Our Borders Send out 10x caravans 2.9%
- For Deer Life Tame a deer 2.7%
- Den of Thieves Defeat a Bandit camp 2.2%
- Boar and Peace Hunt 20x Boar 1.9%
- Conversion Recruit 5x Prisoners 1.9%
- Praise Be Have a Unforgettable Eucharist Event 1.9%
- Not Today Fend off an ambush 1.6%
- Fowl Play Hunt 5x Pheasant 1.6%
- Man's Best Friend Tame a wolf 1.6%
- Feathered Friend Tame a pheasant 1.1%
- Bear With Me Tame a bear 1.0%
- Good Hare Day Tame a hare 1.0%
- Victorious! Defeat an Enemy settlement 0.9%
- Market Mastery Complete Charter Fair 0.9%
- Tiny Treaty Tame a polecat 0.6%
- Swine & Dine Tame a boar 0.5%
- The Art of War Complete Protector of the Realm 0.5%
- Heavy Artillery Kill an enemy with a trebuchet 0.5%
- Feast Mode Have a Unforgettable Feast 0.3%
- Orange Crush Tame a fox 0.3%
- Most Unpheasant Hunt 20x Pheasant 0.3%
- Memento Mori Produce Human Trophy 0.3%
- Mind Over Matter Complete New University 0.2%
- Duck, Duck, Juice Hunt 5x Mallard 0.2%
- Holey Voleys Hunt 5x Water vole 0.2%
- Lucky Duck Tame a mallard 0.2%
- The Rat Pack Tame a rat 0.2%
- Blessed Be Have a Unforgettable Ritual 0.2%
- Redemption Complete Centre Of Pilgrimage 0.1%
- No Rest for the Wicked Complete Tyrant Overlord 0.1%
- Natural Order Complete Pagan Sanctuary 0.1%
- Quacktical Strike Hunt 20x Mallard 0.1%
- Varmint Violence Hunt 20x Water vole 0.1%
- Bridge Too Far Kill an enemy with a Drawbridge 0.1%
- Gate Expectations Kill an enemy with a Portcullis 0.1%
- Absolute Villainy Reach 100% Infamy 0.1%
- Know Thy Enemy Have a Unforgettable Martial Training Event 0.1%
- Eureka! Have a Unforgettable Study Group Event 0.1%
- Vole in One Tame a water vole 0.1%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-18.