Arid

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 1,989 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 300 reviews: 6.1h for positive, 1h 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 (83.9% 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 (39)

• Welcome to the Atacama Wake up in the Atacama desert. 100%
• High Quality Find or craft an high quality tool. 69%
• Out in the world! Move on from the crashsite. 65%
• Poor boy Find a Dead Viscacha 62%
• One day down Survive 1 day in the game (any difficulty) 59%
• Shortcuts Open your first shortcut. 43%
• First Encounter Hopefully the last one. 23%
• What's up with this wind? Encounter a sandstorm. 18%
• Underground You unlocked access to the mines. 14%
• Base Crawling Repair 10 facilities. 12%
• What was that? Something lurks in the darkness... 12%
• Bridge Fix the bridge to get access to the refuge. 11%
• Mining Town Reach the Mining Town. 11%
• Reader Read 10 letters, notes or journals. 9.9%
• Swimming with the Boys Find the Pool. 9.9%
• Echoes of the Past Discover what happened to the miners. 8.3%
• Ten down, many more to go Survive 10 days in the game (any difficulty). 7.5%
• Peekaboo! Find the curious mural. 7.2%
• Opening the way Opened the way in the Canyon. 6.9%
• Art is Everywhere Find the unfinished art. 6.9%
• Moon Valley Reach the Moon Valley. 6.8%
• Mario and Ricardo Find out the fate of the couple of lovers. 6.7%
• Saltpeter Plant Got access to the Saltpeter Plant. 6.6%
• Hell no! Run away from the bees! Maybe it's safer at night.. 6.2%
• I'm not at the beach, this is a bathtub! Find the Bath Tub. 5.7%
• A way out! Obtained the Flare Gun. 5.4%
• Tourist Complete the game on Tourist or harder difficulties. 5.1%
• Survivor You escaped the atacama desert alive! 5.1%
• Roberto, The Helpful A sane mad man in a world of sane madness. 4.4%
• Explorer Complete the game on Explorer or harder difficulties. 4.3%
• Family Reunion Find where the kid has gone. 3.8%
• What Goes Around... Comes Around.. Found an old acquaintance. 3.1%
• The best you'll get... Craft a herbs poultice. 2.7%
• Survivalist Complete the game on Survivalist or harder difficulties. 1.9%
• Tiger the Builder Repair all 84 facilities (including story related). 1.8%
• How long has it been? Survive 50 days in the game (any difficulty). 1.8%
• Dead Man Walking Complete the game on Dead Man Walking. 1.8%
• What were you expecting? You discovered the secret of the waterfall. 1.8%
• Librarian Read all 36 letters, notes and journals. 1.7%