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Cleo - a pirate's tale
Hooks you almost right away
Gets good by 1h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Started playing 49% of owners
Steam reviews 98% positive of 811
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 12 reviews are negative (8%); after 5h it's 1 in 155 (1%).
- The opening is criticised less than in 93% of games we track.
- Few early reviews, so this is a rough estimate.
- Only 48% 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 820 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 300 reviews: 5.6h for positive, 3.5h 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 (48.5% 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 (24)
- THE LISTENER Thank you for playing "Cleo - a pirate's tale"! 100%
- PERFECTIONIST Pick all Folo flowers on the island 100%
- GOOD FISHING – BRONZE Go fishing 25 times 92%
- LETTER OPENER - BRONZE Read a messages in a bottle 92%
- NATURAL BORN KRAKEN FODDERER Win your very first game of Kraken Fodder 81%
- KRAKEN FODDER VETERAN Defeat Erik, Fleur and Schmodor in Kraken Fodder 79%
- MERCILESS Win against Fleur on the very first try 59%
- AMBITIOUS Don't give up until you win your first round of Kraken Fodder 58%
- GOOD FISHING – SILVER Go fishing 50 times 58%
- MASOCHIST Suffer more than 20 electric shocks 54%
- CLUMSY Fall down the stairs of the lighthouse twice 44%
- NAMASTÉ Complete the Coffee to Know Meditation flawlessly 34%
- ONLY THE BARE NECESSITIES Bring exactly 20 flowers to the siren 32%
- THE LAWNMOWER MAN Cut off all tufts of grass 30%
- GOOD FISHING – GOLD Go fishing 100 times 25%
- LEITMOTIF Play Cabeca's leitmotif on the kalimba 22%
- KRAKEN FODDER GOD Win all Kraken Fodder games on the first try 22%
- KNICK KNACK Solve the finger puzzle in just two steps 21%
- GLOBETROTTER Visit every place of the McIanlly Palms map 18%
- DUTIFUL Try to take a fish after Herbert left 17%
- SCARED OF THE DARK Do not dare to go into the dark 17%
- LETTER OPENER – SILVER Read 10 different messages in a bottle 16%
- LETTER OPENER – GOLD Read 25 different messages in a bottle 14%
- LETTER OPENER – PLATINUM Find all 64 messages in bottles 12%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-20.