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The Greatest Penguin Heist of All Time
Give it 2 hours
Gets good by 2h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 3h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 92% of owners
Steam reviews 89% positive of 2,943
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 4 reviews are negative (26%); after 3h it's 1 in 25 (4%).
- Fully opens up by hour 3.
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- 92% of owners got the first achievement.
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 2,989 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 294 reviews: 8h for positive, 1.3h 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 (91.7% 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 (51)
story milestone ending side
- Murder! You murdered a penguin in cold blood. 100%
- Researcher Finished Research Station 74%
- First Death Die for the first time 46%
- Master of Stealth Finished a heist without being seen 45%
- Playa Finished Playa Del Sol 41%
- Soldier Finished Military Base 30%
- Citizen Finished Pongo City 27%
- Serial Killer Kill 50 penguins in cold blood 26%
- Cannonball! Shoot yourself out of a cannon 19%
- Pongolantian Finished Pongolantis 18%
- Big Mistake "Accidentally" kill the Undercover Scientist in Research Station 17%
- Mass Murderer Kill 100 penguins in cold blood 16%
- Boxer Throw 300 punches 15%
- Conductor Finished On a Rail 15%
- Slayer of Demons Slayed Hsif, the Penguin Demon 12%
- Knight Finished Dark Castle 12%
- Egyptian Finished The Nile 10%
- Roman Finished Et tu, Bingus 8.9%
- Harvester Finished Pumpkin Harvest 8.7%
- Feeling Blue Unlock 20 blueprints 8.3%
- Hardcore Researcher Finished Research Station on Hardcore difficulty 8.3%
- Reunion Reunite a mother and her baby 8.2%
- Miner Finished King Pingnar Mines 8.1%
- Lad Finished Pongton 7.5%
- "I've hacked into the mainframe!" You used your hacking capabilities to access a security system. 6.9%
- Super Starch Rescue the Potato Lover's Girlfriend 6.9%
- The Secret of the Painting Discovered the Secret of Dark Castle's Painting 5.3%
- Hardcore Soldier Finished Military Base on Hardcore difficulty 3.9%
- True Penguin Noot 1000 times 3.9%
- Hardcore Playa Finished Playa Del Sol on Hardcore difficulty 3.7%
- Chef Bake 10 pizzas in one game of Pizza Panic 3.6%
- You Slipped! Fall into lava inside the temple in The Nile 3.5%
- Norse God Use Mjölnir 3.4%
- Speedguin Finished Research Station in under 35 seconds 3.3%
- Hardcore Citizen Finished Pongo City on Hardcore difficulty 2.9%
- Hardcore Conductor Finished On a Rail on Hardcore difficulty 2.6%
- Hardcore Pongolantian Finished Pongolantis on Hardcore difficulty 2.5%
- Heist Dweller Find all blueprints in a heist before exfiltrating 2.1%
- Moneymaker Earn 100 000 fish coins from heisting 2.0%
- Hardcore Egyptian Finished The Nile on Hardcore difficulty 1.9%
- Hardcore Roman Finished Et tu, Bingus on Hardcore difficulty 1.9%
- Hardcore Miner Finished King Pingnar Mines on Hardcore difficulty 1.7%
- Master Chef Bake 30 pizzas in one game of Pizza Panic 1.7%
- Hardcore Knight Finished Dark Castle on Hardcore difficulty 1.6%
- Pooguin Poop 100 Times 1.2%
- Hardcore Harvester Finished Pumpkin Harvest on Hardcore difficulty 1.1%
- Hardcore Lad Finished Pongton on Hardcore difficulty 1.0%
- Extinction Remove all signs of life from a heist 0.9%
- Chocolate Pizza Manage to make a chocolate pizza 0.8%
- The True Chef Play Pizza Panic while dressed as Chef Panguino 0.7%
- Impostor Finish Playa del Sol while dressed as Chef Panguino 0.5%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-19.