ZEPHON

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 1,982 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 300 reviews: 24.6h for positive, 8.2h 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 (41.9% 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 (96)

• Got Me, Good One Defeat Chieftess. 100%
• Closing Chat Window Defeat ZEPHON. 98%
• Average Perfection Win a game on medium speed. 90%
• Perfection Is Impossible Defeat Heartless Artificer. 82%
• What Are You? Unlock the mutator. 80%
• To Fear What Is Beyond Foresight Defeat Anchorite. 78%
• Meet Your Maker Hold fire against the figure. 73%
• Space For Revelation Win a game on a small, medium or large map. 61%
• Little Wars Win a game on a tiny map. 52%
• My Sisters Defeat Furtive Tribunal. 48%
• A Last Morsel, I Beg You Defeat Honorable Aristocrat. 48%
• I Shall Rise Again! Defeat Untold Prophet. 47%
• Last Offer! Defeat Rogue Operative. 46%
• Mankind's Last Hope Produce an Atlas Tank. 42%
• The Art Of Dying Well Defeat Practical Romantic. 41%
• Peace At Last Defeat Emulated Mind. 41%
• Where Are We? Unlock the mutator. 37%
• A New Genesis Produce a Seraphim Archangel. 34%
• I Won't Stay Dead, You Know Defeat Fallen Soldier. 33%
• Form, Function Found second city as Emulated Mind. 29%
• Hair Carpet Maker Win a game on a huge map. 25%
• Was A Good Ride Defeat Hollow Warlord. 19%
• The Pulled Thread Recover the lost Tether. 19%
• Was ZEPHON Truly Alive? Unlock the mutator. 17%
• Cage-Bearer Produce a Vorodai's Leviathan. 17%
• Why Did Humanity Die Alone? Unlock the mutator. 17%
• My Family Defeat Twisted Mother. 17%
• Thicker Than Water Kill your brother. 16%
• The Dead Hand Of Capitalism Extract the eyes of Phinnicus. 15%
• Shared Hallucination Finish a multiplayer game with another human player. 15%
• Wizard Of Time And Space Win a game on fast or very fast speed. 15%
• An End, An End Comes Defeat Infinite Count. 14%
• Did My Death Mean Anything? Unlock the mutator. 14%
• Did Our Sacrifice Mean Nothing? Unlock the mutator. 13%
• Whoah, Let's Talk About This Defeat Platinum Scion. 13%
• The Price Of Honor Retrieve the Cornucopia. 12%
• Perfection From Beyond The Stars Kill Hwedo. 12%
• The CAPTCHA Test Win a game on medium difficulty or higher in ironman mode against at least 1 AI player for each human player and without predefined teams. 12%
• Must We Suffer So? Unlock the mutator. 12%
• Whispers Of A False Prophet Restore the Archai. 11%
• Can Free Will Exist? Unlock the mutator. 9.8%
• Was I Truly Human? Unlock the mutator. 9.8%
• Bullet Time Win a game on slow or very slow speed. 8.8%
• What Am I, Truly? Unlock the mutator. 8.1%
• Did Our Unification Matter? Unlock the mutator. 7.2%
• Is Wisdom The Measure Of Worth? Unlock the mutator. 6.9%
• The Turing Test Win a game on hard difficulty or higher in ironman mode against at least 1 AI player for each human player and without predefined teams. 6.9%
• Ah, Finally There Will Be Peace And Quiet Only Defeat Syncretic Deva. 6.4%
• Impossible Conception Save your husband. 6.0%
• Are You The Great Speaker? Unlock the mutator. 5.5%
• The Empath’s Defense You cannot save humanity by giving up yours. 5.3%
• You Will Never Conquer Space! Defeat Imperious Exonaut. 5.0%
• Was Perfection Worth It? Unlock the mutator. 4.8%
• What Price For Liberty? Unlock the mutator. 4.8%
• The Ebert Test Win a game on very hard difficulty or higher in ironman mode against at least 1 AI player for each human player and without predefined teams. 4.8%
• Can Love Be Moral? Unlock the mutator. 4.3%
• Was Any Of It Real? Unlock the mutator. 3.8%
• Did Honor Balance Greed? Unlock the mutator. 3.6%
• What Carries Across? Unlock the mutator. 3.6%
• Reyndverra Give up the blade. 3.1%
• Just Infinite Suffering Choose The Deep statement. 3.1%
• Touch The Sky Lie to the Board. 2.9%
• The Voigt-Kampf Test Win a game on ultra hard difficulty or higher in ironman mode against at least 1 AI player for each human player and without predefined teams. 2.9%
• Our Independence Day Win a game by staying independent in The Last Days of Earth on very hard difficulty or higher in ironman mode against at least 1 AI player for each human player and without predefined teams. 2.4%
• Can Anything Redeem This Horror? Unlock the mutator. 2.1%
• The Final Test Win a game on nightmare difficulty in ironman mode against at least 1 AI player for each human player and without predefined teams. 2.1%
• A Canticle For The Anchorite Win a game by joining Anchorite in The Last Days of Earth on very hard difficulty or higher in ironman mode against at least 1 AI player for each human player and without predefined teams. 2.1%
• War Games Win a game by joining ZEPHON in The Last Days of Earth on very hard difficulty or higher in ironman mode against at least 1 AI player for each human player and without predefined teams. 2.1%
• Becoming Unbound Reject the time loop. 1.9%
• Can A Journey Be An End In Itself? Unlock the mutator. 1.7%
• I Carry Them With Me, Always Choose The Deep statement. 1.7%
• Was I The Best Person Alive Or What? Unlock the mutator. 1.7%
• Fit For Adoration Divinity is the sum of an equation. 1.4%
• Zhuko Was Here Win a game as ZhukoDim, but without playing. 1.4%
• When The Masses Stood With Me, I Was Invincible Choose The Deep statement. 1.2%
• A Fine Peaceful People, Wasted On A Mistaken Prophecy Choose The Deep statement. 1.2%
• From Death To Eternal Life In Some Abominable Form Choose The Deep statement. 1.2%
• I—She—Felt Again Choose The Deep statement. 1.2%
• What Is The Worth Of A Human Life? Unlock the mutator. 1.2%
• We Took No Pleasure In Our Victory Choose The Deep statement. 1.2%
• Did I Doom My Friends? Unlock the mutator. 1.0%
• What Is Truly Worthy Of Worship? Unlock the mutator. 1.0%
• Total Freedom Differs Little From Rolling A Die Choose The Deep statement. 1.0%
• Nobody Can Make It Out Here Alone Choose The Deep statement. 0.7%
• One Lie And They Shunned Me Choose The Deep statement. 0.7%
• We Have Been Human, Acrin and Machine Choose The Deep statement. 0.7%
• Better To Innovate Than Replicate Choose The Deep statement. 0.7%
• We Rode To The Sunset And Beyond Choose The Deep statement. 0.5%
• I Knew Love, Then Choose The Deep statement. 0.5%
• Strange Loops Win a game with all mutators active in ironman mode against at least 1 AI player for each human player and without predefined teams. 0.5%
• Multiverse of Madness Win a game on nightmare difficulty with all mutators active in ironman mode against at least 1 AI player for each human player and without predefined teams. 0.5%
• The World Was New Every Day Choose The Deep statement. 0.2%
• Grimmer Darkness Kill 40001 units. 0.2%
• Just Sat Back, Hoarded, And The Money Flowed In Choose The Deep statement. 0.2%
• I Saw The World, More Deeply Choose The Deep statement. 0.2%
• Stronger Defenses Gave Me More Time For Peace Choose The Deep statement. 0.2%