EVERSPACE™ 2
Give it 3 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours almost 1 in 3 reviews are negative (30%); after 15h it's 1 in 8 (12%).
- Fully opens up by hour 10.
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- Only 62% 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 13,255 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 36.1h for positive, 21.7h 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 (62.3% 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 (58)
story milestone ending side
- A New Home Revive an old hideout. 100%
- A New Ride Buy a new ship. 62%
- Device Master Master a device. 61%
- In Good Company Find a HIVE unit. 60%
- Work For Hire Complete 10 Jobs 45%
- I Heart Horags Take in Elek. 44%
- Against All Outlaws Destroy 1000 Outlaw units. 42%
- Challenge Accepted Complete a master challenge. 42%
- A Friend In Need Save Tareen from the G&B Elite Squad. 34%
- Unlimited Power Have the Sentinel's ULT "Static Overload" span electricity arcs to at least 5 enemies. 34%
- Elite Eliminator Destroy 100 Elite units. 33%
- Rock And Stone! Mine 2000 resources 31%
- My Precious! Equip a legendary item. 30%
- Spaceship of Theseus Change the front, rear and wings of a ship. 30%
- Still In One Piece Survive an Ancient Rift. 25%
- No Place Like Home Escape the Khione System. 22%
- There Can Be Only One Prevent a new war. 20%
- Bend it like Roslin Use a Thermo Gun to destroy an enemy that is behind an obstacle. 20%
- Been There, Done That Complete 25 Location Challenges 17%
- Rift Runner Complete a Rift 17%
- Tower Defense Use a Sticky Turret to destroy an enemy. 16%
- The Catalyst Catalog Find all Catalyst Blueprints 16%
- Top Tier Buy a Tier 4 ship 16%
- Gotta Find 'Em All Find all devices 15%
- Credits Where Credits Are Due Earn at least 5000 credits by selling one stack of commodities. 14%
- Press F To Pay Respects Visit a final resting place. 13%
- Perky Personnel Fully upgrade all Companion Perks 13%
- Under Pressure Use the Energized Boost's High-Pressure mode to destroy 3 enemies in one go. 10%
- What A Legend! Reach the highest level of renown. 8.3%
- Maxed Out Have two attributes maxed out at the same time using Mainframe Expansions 7.7%
- It's A Sabotage Destroy the Dreadnought's first of two interstellar drives. 6.6%
- I Got You Fam Protect your wingman from getting immobilized while fending off the Dreadnought. 6.6%
- Inner Space Get swallowed up by a Leviathan. 6.1%
- Legendary Lunatic Complete a Rift at Lunacy 500 or higher 5.5%
- Stop! Hammer Time! Disrupt the Dreadnought auction. 4.8%
- Catch Of The Day Break open your first Leviathan pearl. 4.8%
- I Don't Like Bullies Use the Front Shield Generator to block two Sniper Drone shots in a single activation. 3.7%
- Gone Kayaking Give a friend a second chance. 3.5%
- Sidetracked Finish all side missions 3.0%
- Ancient History Avert another crisis. 2.9%
- That's All You Got? Complete all challenge collections 2.7%
- Stasis Smash Use the Magnetic Repulsor to smash an EMP'ed enemy to death. 2.6%
- That Belongs In A Museum Obtain the Tactical Artillery Beam device. 2.2%
- No Asteroid Unturned Complete all locations 100% 2.1%
- Bean There, Done That Buy the Wraith. 2.1%
- Stop Hitting Yourself Use one decoy to guide at least 10 missiles into the Dreadnought's launcher system. 1.9%
- Spin Me Right 'Round Keep the Fusion Hook tethered for 10 seconds during a single activation. 1.8%
- Didn't Hurt A Bit Obtain a Leviathan Pearl while agitation is below 20%. 1.6%
- A Taste Of Their Own Medicine Kill a Cloudgrazer with a weapon similar to the creature’s fiery breath. 1.4%
- Altar Boy Upgrade an item at an Ancient Altar. 1.4%
- Ludicrous Speed! Finish all racing tracks with platinum rank. 1.3%
- Backup Plan Obtain the Entropy Anchor device. 1.3%
- Power Fantasy? Power Reality! Own a rank 8 equipment item of Ascendant rarity. 1.3%
- Home Is Where The Ace Is Park the Golden Ace in Ceto. 1.0%
- The World Is Your Oyster Break 20 Leviathan Pearls. 0.6%
- Now We Can Finally Play The Game! Unlock the full set bonus of the Ascendancy item set. 0.6%
- Internal Combustion Explode one of XR’s panzer bombs inside a Leviathan. 0.5%
- Beam There, Done That Have 3 Tactical Artillery Beams active at the same time. 0.5%