Trombone Champ
Hooks you right away
What the data shows
- 94% of first-hour reviews are positive — about the same as players with 4+ hours (99%).
- The opening is criticised less than in 97% of games we track.
- 16% of players who start reach the ending.
- Most players drop off before “TROMBONE CHAMP”: only 16% of starters get there.
- Only 66% of owners have even the first achievement — the rest barely played.
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 11,479 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 5.3h for positive, 0.3h 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 (66.3% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- TROMBONE CHAMP Become the Trombone Champ of Legend Most players quit here 16% −84
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (25)
story milestone ending side
- S Apprentice Receive an "S" score on one track 100%
- Yo! I Got a Sack Get a sack 86%
- The Music Enjoyer Play at least 20 tracks 53%
- S Associate Receive an "S" score on five tracks 53%
- Big Brain Scholar Develop an enormous brain full of facts 51%
- The Tootmaster Meet Tootmaster Tom 45%
- New Friend Meet a Mysterious Friend 44%
- No more Abstain from sound completely 40%
- Aesthete Unlock a trombone color 39%
- Gettin' Tootier Unlock a Sound Set 39%
- Card Collector Get 50 Tromboner Cards 32%
- S Aficionado Receive an "S" score on ten tracks 32%
- Apex Aesthete Unlock all trombone colors 25%
- The Bassmaster Meet Bassmaster Ben 25%
- I Want Them All! Express your love of baboons 23%
- Got Tootiest Unlock all Sound Sets 22%
- S Virtuoso Receive an "S" score on fifteen tracks 21%
- TROMBONE CHAMP Become the Trombone Champ of Legend 16%
- S GOD Receive an "S" score on twenty or more tracks 16%
- Never Liked the Guy Turd your last Mozart card 15%
- I Would Prefer Not To Abstain from tooting 15%
- S ULTRA-GOD Receive an "S" score on twenty-five or more tracks 11%
- S ULTRA-MEGA-GOD Receive an "S" score on thirty or more tracks 9.2%
- I DID ENGOLDENATION Do a big engoldenation on a Tromboner Card 7.1%
- ENGOLDENATION GOD Do an amazingly huge engoldenation on every single Tromboner Card 3.8%