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Coromon
Give it 10 hours
Gets good by 10h then rated almost like by veterans
Fully opens up by 20h rated like by long-time players
Reach the ending 14% of players who started
Started playing 68% of owners
Steam reviews 84% positive of 8,130
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 3 reviews are negative (32%); after 20h it's 1 in 10 (10%).
- Fully opens up by hour 20.
- 14% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “Adventure Awaits!” (Pick your starter) and “Dark Tides” (Defeat the mysterious intruder): from 100% to 53% of starters.
- Only 68% 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 8,175 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 298 reviews: 22.3h for positive, 16.8h 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 (68.3% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Adventure Awaits! Pick your starter. 100%
- Dark Tides Defeat the mysterious intruder. Most players quit here 53% −47
- The Spark is Gone Defeat Voltgar. 47% −6
- Spooky Time is Over Defeat Illuginn. 35% −12
- Shifted The Sands Defeat Sart. 26% −8
- I Am Overcome Win the Mirror Challenge. 25% −1
- The Flame Extinguished Defeat Hozai. 19% −6
- Party Time! Join the Alavi festivities. 17% −3
- Melt Down Defeat Vørst. 16% −1
- Turning The Tide Defeat Chalchiu. 14% −2
- Hold my Hand Complete the game on Easy or higher. 14%
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (80)
story milestone ending side
- Adventure Awaits! Pick your starter. 100%
- Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger Evolve a Coromon. 63%
- Privacy? What’s That? Read your mother’s diary. 56%
- Raindance Trigger Rain in a battle. 55%
- Helping Hand Complete 5 side quests. 53%
- Dark Tides Defeat the mysterious intruder. 53%
- Alone in the Dark Trigger Twilight in a battle. 51%
- Feeding Time Give a Fruit to a Coromon. 50%
- The Spark is Gone Defeat Voltgar. 47%
- It's Coarse and Rough and Gets Everywhere Trigger a Sandstorm in a battle. 46%
- Shopaholic Redeem a Shop coupon. 46%
- Flash 'em All Use a Skill Flash on one of your Coromon. 35%
- Spooky Time is Over Defeat Illuginn. 35%
- Diversify Have 6 Coromon of different types in your Squad. 29%
- It's Getting Hot in Here Trigger a Heatwave in a battle. 28%
- Potentiflator Potentiflate a Coromon. 28%
- Undefeated Defeat 60 trainers. 28%
- That's It! Complete the Throwing Arm training. 27%
- Shifted The Sands Defeat Sart. 26%
- I Am Overcome Win the Mirror Challenge. 25%
- Hotel Mom Get some free cakes. 24%
- Let's Make Snow Seraphaces! Trigger Snow in a battle. 22%
- No Shoes, No Shirt And I still get service. 20%
- Traitformator Traitformate a Coromon. 20%
- The Flame Extinguished Defeat Hozai. 19%
- Party Time! Join the Alavi festivities. 17%
- Melt Down Defeat Vørst. 16%
- Junior Researcher Reach Researcher Level 50. 15%
- Push it Real Good Unlock the electro magnetic lock in the R&D lab. 14%
- Turning The Tide Defeat Chalchiu. 14%
- This Has Potential Have six Potent Squad members. 14%
- Hold my Hand Complete the game on Easy or higher. 14%
- The Regular Experience Complete the game on Normal or higher. 13%
- Cuteness overload Devolve a Coromon. 12%
- A Bridge too Far Cross the bridge in the Scorching Sands safely. 11%
- Resetinator Resetinate a Coromon. 11%
- What a Voice! Complete the Haggle training. 11%
- I'm So Random! Try out the randomizer mode. 11%
- Give Credit Watch the credits. 10%
- Enhance! Keep a Coromon from evolving. 9.5%
- Frosted Tips Time for a new look! Who needs a barber? 9.4%
- Riches From the Earth Earn 5000 Gold from Gems. 8.2%
- No Trashcan Left Unturned Find 150 Hidden items. 8.1%
- Stylized Have all Squad members in the same Spinner type. 7.3%
- Ultimate Rage Evolve a Swurmy before level 14. 7.2%
- Found it! Dig up a Hold item. 6.9%
- Extreme Couponing Spend less than 50 gold on a purchase in a shop. 6.7%
- Flaming Start Catch a Toruga where the last track ends. 6.1%
- Frenemies Have a Purrgy and a Houndos in your Squad 6.0%
- Fluid Start Catch a Nibblegar in the painter's cave. 5.4%
- To the Max! Reach level 99 with a Coromon. 5.3%
- Enhance++! Keep a Coromon from evolving twice. 5.3%
- Hyperthermia This sauna is too much. 5.3%
- I’m Not Cold! Prove you’re weatherproof. 5.1%
- Pet Pet Pet Pet a Swurmy into madness. 4.8%
- Brewmaster Brew a Potent Scent. 4.2%
- Cool Start Catch a Cubzero on the highest mountain. 4.2%
- Toss a Spinner to your Witch Evolve a Squidly before level 37. 4.0%
- Howl at the Moon Evolve a Lunarwulf before level 39. 3.8%
- Thanks for the Memories Give your starter to Jerome. 3.8%
- Where do I Look?! Collect the well-hidden sneak outfit. 3.7%
- Casual Friday What’s up boss? 3.5%
- Hot Noodles Evolve a Slitherpin before level 25. 3.4%
- Botanist Plant fruits, everywhere! 3.4%
- Open Door Policy Open all doors in a town. 2.9%
- Big Happy Family Have three different Coromon of the same family in your Squad. 2.9%
- The Aliens Are Here! Create a crop circle. 2.8%
- Ultimate fan Have 6 Coromon of the same species in your Squad. 2.8%
- Who's the Hoarder Now? Catch every Coromon species. 2.6%
- Snack Time Evolve a Purrgy before level 30. 2.6%
- Santa is Coming Collect the hidden santa outfit. 2.6%
- Inflation Hits Hard Spend your last penny in a shop. 2.6%
- Cave-ception Find the cave within the cave within the cave. 2.5%
- Flappy Master Get a score of 500 in Flappy Swurmy. 2.3%
- ...and my Eggs! Collect the hidden bunny ears. 2.2%
- Senior Researcher Reach Researcher Level 100. 2.0%
- Up for a Challenge Complete the game on Hard or higher. 1.8%
- Rush Master Get a score of 1000 in Swurmy Rush. 1.8%
- Unstoppable Complete the game on Insane. 1.5%
- Caretaker Complete the story without letting one of your Coromon faint. 1.3%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-19.