Mindustry
Give it 3 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 5 reviews are negative (20%); after 20h it's 1 in 30 (3%).
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- 75% 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.
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Based on all 28,675 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 291 reviews: 23.6h for positive, 8.6h 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 (74.6% 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 (87)
story milestone ending side
- A Grave Mistake Research the Router. 100%
- Heresy Build two routers next to each other. 84%
- Direct Assault Command any units to attack a target. 61%
- Efficiency Cool a turret with water or cryofluid. 60%
- Slayer Defeat a boss. 57%
- Create Place 10,000 blocks. 51%
- Scrapper Destroy 1000 enemy units. 50%
- Material I Unlock Titanium. 49%
- Cleanup Break 100 boulders. 45%
- Production I Reach 5,000 items/min total production in the campaign. 45%
- Blitz Destroy the enemy core in an attack zone in 5 waves or fewer. 44%
- Mending Build a Mend Projector. 44%
- Where's The Manual? Research the micro-processor. 42%
- It Begins Build a ground unit factory. 41%
- Terrain Boost Increase the efficiency of a structure by placing it on specific tiles. 38%
- Head Start Launch into a zone with 10,000 or more items configured. 38%
- Overload Hit a water-covered enemy with electricity. 38%
- Raze Destroy 1,000 enemy blocks. 36%
- Material II Unlock Thorium. 33%
- You Should've Listened Die in the drop point exclusion zone. 32%
- Incinerate Use Pyratite in any turret. 31%
- Direct Control Manually command a turret. 30%
- Legions Build 1000 units total. 26%
- Flock Have 10 Poly drones active at once. 25%
- Hovercraft Use an Elude unit to cross a liquid. 24%
- Liftoff Use the Launch Pad. 24%
- Small Empire Control 10 sectors at once. 22%
- Classic Mode Enable pixelation. 21%
- Swarm Have 100 units active at once. 20%
- Core Rain Launch your core 30 times. 19%
- High Capacity Have 1 million power stored in batteries in a network. 19%
- Modified Install a mod. 19%
- A Spectacular Disaster Cause a Thorium Reactor to overheat and explode. 18%
- Ignition Power up an Impact Reactor. 16%
- The Ultimate Form Join them. 16%
- Endless Shipments Launch 100,000 items total. 16%
- Browser Download a map from the Workshop. 16%
- Conqueror Win 10 attack-mode matches. 16%
- Blackout Reach negative 10k/sec power in a network. 14%
- Overdrive Build an Overdrive Projector. 13%
- Lone Guardian Survive 10 waves on any zone without placing any blocks. 13%
- Tenacious Survive 100 waves. 12%
- The Full Experience Join a community server. 11%
- Production II Reach 50,000 items/min total production in the campaign. 11%
- Airborne Use the boost function of a ground unit. 11%
- Invulnerable Build the Meltdown, Spectre and Foreshadow. 9.8%
- There Are Naval Units for That Drown. 8.8%
- Kamikaze Fill up any non-core unit with explosive materials and die. 8.8%
- Architect Create 20 schematics. 8.2%
- Loadout Launch with a custom core schematic selected on Serpulo. 7.8%
- Deflection Destroy a unit with its own reflected bullet. 7.5%
- Escalation Construct a Tier 5 unit. 7.4%
- Shields Down Break an enemy Force Projector's shield. 7.2%
- Inefficiency Build a Water Extractor on water, instead of using a pump. 6.3%
- Power Surge Reach positive 100k/sec power. 6.0%
- The Spiral Round and round it goes... 5.9%
- Collector Fill the core to maximum capacity with every type of material. 5.8%
- Serpulo Completion Capture the final sector on Serpulo. 5.4%
- Scholar Open the Wiki from the game. 5.2%
- Researcher Research everything. 5.0%
- Brittle Deal extra explosive damage to a unit with the Freezing status effect. 4.7%
- Master of Distribution Use every transportation block (from one planet) in a single map. 4.6%
- Bad Idea Insert blast compound into a combustion generator. 4.6%
- Roboticist Build every type of unit. 4.6%
- Vengeance Destroy a scatter turret using a flare unit. 3.9%
- Hackerman Open the scripting console. 3.5%
- Outbreak Have neoplasm spread to any water-containing block. 2.9%
- Erekir Completion Capture the final sector on Erekir. 2.8%
- Behind Enemy Lines Drop units within an enemy core's no-build zone. 2.7%
- Purge Destroy 100,000 enemy units. 2.4%
- Stockpile Collect 10 million total items in the campaign. 2.3%
- Airlift Pick up a T5 unit in an Oct unit carrier. 2.3%
- Neutralized Use a Shockwave Tower to absorb incoming bullets. 2.0%
- Mapper Make a new map 10 times. 1.7%
- Contamination Have a Neoplasia Reactor explode due to neoplasm buildup. 1.7%
- Creator Publish a map on the Workshop. 1.7%
- router router 1.7%
- Unfortunately, Use the :alphachan: emoji in multiplayer chat. 1.6%
- The Global Sweep Break 10,000 boulders. 1.3%
- Serpulo Structure Mastery Build every block available on Serpulo. 1.1%
- Crowd Host a server with 10 players on it. 1.1%
- Champion Win 10 multiplayer PvP matches. 0.9%
- Erekir Structure Mastery Build every block available on Erekir. 0.8%
- Global Domination Capture every sector on Serpulo. 0.8%
- Against All Odds Land the killing blow on an Eclipse unit with a Duo turret. 0.7%
- Designer Create 500 schematics. 0.5%
- Lethal Payload Destroy an enemy unit with a Mass Driver bullet. 0.5%