ActionAdventureIndie
Beyond a Steel Sky
Give it 1 hour
Gets good by 1h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 10h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 65% of owners
Steam reviews 88% positive of 1,671
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 3 reviews are negative (36%); after 10h it's 1 in 11 (9%).
- Fully opens up by hour 10.
- Few early reviews, so this is a rough estimate.
- Only 65% 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 1,675 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 294 reviews: 12.2h for positive, 8.9h 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 (65.3% 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 (32)
- Your Lessons Are Over Complete all tutorials 100%
- Infiltrator Enter the main gates 69%
- Hunger Games Feed Voxel a stolen sandwich 67%
- Interview Jeopardy Complete the Alonso interview 61%
- Reunited With An Old Friend Liberate Joey from the Museum of New History 52%
- Rational Or Just Crazy? Examine all of Graham's conspiracy posters 50%
- Cleanliness Is Next To Joeyness Clean everything up, ready for the party 50%
- Lax Safety Obtain a waiver from Orana 50%
- Knockout Neutralise Jimmy 49%
- The Man Behind The Iron Furnace Enter the secret room behind the fire 49%
- 8bit Days Complete LINCspace 49%
- Crystal Clear Read the secret message 48%
- Water The Plants Turn the sprinklers on 47%
- Party Party Earn a party invite 46%
- Hidden Trouble Got caught spying 45%
- Joey Time Free Foster 44%
- Freedom! Orana can free the children 44%
- Equality For All Set everyone's Qdos level to infinity 44%
- Time To Get Outta Here Open the main gates to allow Wendell to leave with the kids 43%
- Completionist Complete the game 43%
- A Meeting Of Minds Confront the Council in the Citadel 43%
- Snuffing Out The Light Destroy everything that Joey created 43%
- Poetry Slam Watch a full poetry recital 40%
- Classic Threads Unlock Foster's classic coat 39%
- Wash Pin Bowling Knock Chipworth over 39%
- The Zen Of Screaming Set the Kids' Exhibit to speak 'Aggressively' 25%
- A Fishy Tail Porpoisefully fail Jimmy's scary moment 23%
- History Lesson Learn the full story of Joey the Saviour 20%
- Brain The Size Of A Planet Complete the game without using any hints 14%
- Ultimate Collector Transfer all the holo-trinkets to your brooch 11%
- Movie Buff Discover all five movie posters 6.7%
- Two Faced Witness both Songbird's endings 4.6%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-20.