ActionAdventureCasualIndie
Lair of the Clockwork God
Give it 7 hours
Gets good by 7h then rated almost like by veterans
Started playing 38% of owners
Steam reviews 92% positive of 760
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 4 reviews are negative (26%); after 7h it's 1 in 55 (2%).
- Few early reviews, so this is a rough estimate.
- Only 38% 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 766 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 298 reviews: 8.7h for positive, 1.8h 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 (38.1% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
Story milestones aren't labeled yet; all achievements are listed below.
All achievements (21)
- Supplemental Emotion: Disgust Find the worst joke in the game 100%
- Supplemental Emotion: Empathetic Projection Turn Vi four colours 68%
- Supplemental Emotion: Passive Aggression Give Ben both barrels 61%
- Supplemental Emotion: Sucrotic Lust Kill 30 pinions 59%
- Supplemental Emotion: Hyper-misanthropy Get Everyone Killed 54%
- Supplemental Emotion: Urban Acclimitisation Make it through London without dying 49%
- Supplemental Emotion: Laziness Teleport a very small distance 39%
- Supplemental Emotion: Cultural Bonding The Army Of Daftness 20%
- Supplemental Emotion: Technocronos Syndrome Watch 100 splash logos 20%
- Supplemental Emotion: Gripless Just barely get a grip. 20%
- Supplemental Emotion: Self-Satisfaction Look at you, so so clever breaking the rules. 19%
- Supplemental Emotion: Healthy Competition Beat the Choo-Choo Train 14%
- Supplemental Emotion: Darwinian Instinct Make it through the final escape without dying 14%
- Supplemental Emotion: Personal Connections Discover Balloon-Head's origin story 13%
- Supplemental Emotion: Positive Anthropomorphism Get Hairy Palms 9.7%
- Supplemental Emotion: Precognition Input the panel code before you know it 8.7%
- Supplemental Emotion: Taste Acquisition Taste all the flavours of lollipop 8.7%
- Supplemental Emotion: Autodidactism Read all the Luxomails 8.7%
- Supplemental Emotion: Chronophobia Suffer through a wild goose chase 6.0%
- Supplemental Emotion: Acute Stress Response Get a different kind of angry 6.0%
- Supplemental Emotion: Boundary Confrontation Comment on four invisible walls 5.8%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-20.