Learning Factory

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 542 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 296 reviews: 6.1h for positive, 2h 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 (84.8% 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 (78)

• Happy cats Satisfy 10 requests 100%
• The Invitation Find an ancient Monument 100%
• Happiness spreads Satisfy 100 requests 86%
• Factory renovation Maintain 10 non-logistic buildings at once 85%
• Just what the Doctor ordered Complete a request from Dr. Katz 76%
• New and Trending Have at least 100 cats visited you after a tip from a friend 67%
• Open Your Mind Research at least 10 technologies 49%
• We need to go deeper Go under the surface of Mars 48%
• All Work and No Play Hire a researcher 34%
• Toss a coin to your kitten! Have 1000 Coins on your account 32%
• Think Tank Have a scientist upgrade a skill 32%
• The Great Catsby Have at least 1000 cats visited you after a tip from a friend 30%
• Local Fella Purchase a territory on the map 28%
• Economics basics Achieve a stable income of 2 coins/sec in one Store 27%
• Exactly As Planned Place a building upon a Blueprint 26%
• The Coach Gather the initial data batch for a machine learning model 23%
• Illuminated Apply Cat Secret on the Research Tree 23%
• Grand Success Seniors love you 23%
• Factory expansion Maintain 50 non-logistic buildings at once 21%
• The Breadwinner Have at least 10 cats go up their demand pyramid 21%
• Top Seller Sell Quality item to a Cat 18%
• The Guru Train a machine learning model into stability 18%
• Genius, Billionaire, Playboy, Felinetropist Spend at least 10 000 coins on research 18%
• The Prototype Build the first prototype of Perfect Cat Model 17%
• Another Round! Upgrade the Tavern 17%
• You Are Legend For legendary service to the feline community 16%
• Fancy pants Equip a customization item 15%
• Are You Ready, Kittens? Build something in the ocean 13%
• Terraformaster Terraform a tile 13%
• Around Mars in 21 344 tiles Travel the distance equivalent to the circumference of Mars (21 344 tiles) 13%
• Happiness for everybody (not free) Satisfy 10000 requests 12%
• Too cool for school Start a new game in Freeplay Mode 11%
• Going meta Research an Upgrade 11%
• Around the World in 80 Ticks Complete a route with a Zeppelin 11%
• My Own Research Cat knows best 8.8%
• Consumer Basket Sell 20 items at once to non-legendary cat 8.7%
• Terraformaniac Terraform 100 tiles 8.1%
• The Enlightener Have at least 1000 cats go up their demand pyramid 7.2%
• Life goes on Plant Turing Tree population that survives 100+ generations 6.5%
• PhD in Economics Achieve a stable Factory income of 10 coins/sec 6.2%
• The Caternity Build a Dormitory for at least 10 scientists 6.2%
• Katz's Ten Have 10 researchers in a team 6.0%
• Haters Gonna Hate Have at least 1000 cats ignore your Factory due to a friend's recommendation 5.9%
• It's My Life Build a structure of Turing trees, generating a mass of other Turing Trees 5.8%
• The beginning of a beautiful friendship Unlock Trading Tier 2 for any Guild 5.7%
• Dev in the Details Hire a dev to work for you in-game, too! 4.5%
• We Don't Need Roads Have a Zeppelin complete flight of at least 250 tiles between Docks 4.5%
• Garbage Collector In space, no one can hear you clean 4.4%
• The Great Plan Place a Scheme containing 50 Blueprints 3.9%
• Factory Must Grow (literally) Complete 100000 plant growth cycles 3.8%
• Surface Is the Limit Unlock Underground Zeppelin 3.7%
• Ice Cold Clicker Those cats just went home 3.7%
• Know-it-all Conduct 100 researches 3.4%
• Purrfectionist Sell a High Quality item to a Cat 3.4%
• Hello, world! Create a scenario 3.4%
• Cats Are In the Endgame Now Complete an Infinite research project 3.3%
• The Promoter Earn 100+ coins from one store sale 3.1%
• The Way It's Meant to Be We know it is really hard to buy a graphic adapter at this time... At least you can make one in the game! 3.1%
• Mad Man Spend at least 10 000 coins on advertising 2.8%
• Cool Cats Only Upgrade the Tavern to the Maximum tier 2.6%
• Catopia Happiness for everybody, free, and no one will go away unsatisfied 2.0%
• The Cat Caterer Satisfy a request from 5+ loyalty cat 2.0%
• The Stakhanovets Complete 256 requests 2.0%
• Honorary Doctorate Hire a scientist who wants a Cat House as part of onboarding bonus 1.9%
• Best friends forever Reach maximum Trading Tier for any Guild 1.9%
• Suzerain Purchase all available territories on the map 1.8%
• Stonks! Stonks, Stonks! 1.4%
• The 8th Vysotka Contribute to the General Building Plan 1.3%
• First cosmic velocity Planet Mars is blue... 1.2%
• Fashion Icon Equip customization items in every slot 1.1%
• Kirov Reporting Have at least 20 Zeppelins on a route 1.1%
• Hello New World+ Ah this, here we go again 0.9%
• To Infinity and Behind the Couch Reach lvl 20 in any Infinite research project 0.9%
• A gift from a friend Import a Blueprint scheme 0.7%
• The Mice Must Flow You're the Master of trade! 0.6%
• The Technocrat Produce Highest Quality version of all items 0.5%
• Second cosmic velocity ...and there's nothing you can do 0.5%
• The land of milk and honey Improve 80% of map tiles to perfection 0.5%