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METALLIC CHILD
Hooks you right away
Gets good instantly from the first hour
Started playing 60% of owners
Steam reviews 85% positive of 1,239
What the data shows
- 85% of first-hour reviews are positive — about the same as players with 5+ hours (81%).
- The opening is criticised less than in 83% of games we track.
- Few early reviews, so this is a rough estimate.
- Only 60% 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.
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Based on all 1,254 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 295 reviews: 10.8h for positive, 9.4h 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 (59.7% 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 (40)
- Learn From Defeat Experience a defeat in battle. 100%
- Welcome to Life Stream! Visit the various facilities of Life Stream. 96%
- Defeat Fira Defeat the Metallic Child, Fira. 94%
- Defeat Graver Defeat the Metallic Child, Graver. 82%
- Ace Fighter Be graded an S for battle 100 times. 80%
- A Mount of Mini-cores Install 150 Mini-cores. 76%
- Double Killer Accomplish = double kills. 69%
- Defeat Gigantic Defeat the Metallic Child, Gigantic. 61%
- Defeat Controd Defeat the Metallic Child, Controd. 59%
- Defeat Faceless Defeat the Metallic Child, Faceless. 55%
- Punch Rush Accomplish 30 combos. 54%
- Whammy Deal 600 damage or more to an enemy in a single hit. 53%
- Defeat Icela Defeat the Metallic Child, Icela. 49%
- Defeat Shutty Defeat the Metallic Child, Shutty. 44%
- Defeat Spyden Defeat the Metallic Child, Spyden. 39%
- Defeat Lighton Defeat the Metallic Child, Lighton. 38%
- Defeat Flyer Defeat the Metallic Child, Flyer. 38%
- Paramedic Rescue 3 survivors. 37%
- Weapon Retriever Help retrieve Sly's weapons 3 times. 29%
- Brave One Open Daviny's box 3 times. 29%
- Devastator Defeat 3000 enemies. 28%
- Final Chapter Defeat all Metallic Childs. 27%
- Defeat Magna Defeat the Metallic Child, Magna. 27%
- Illegal Modification Crackdown Defeat 3 of Catherine's modified robots. 25%
- I'm Famous! Go on camera 3 times, for Miamo's live stream. 22%
- Lethal Blow Perform 200 Take-downs. 22%
- Next-generation Core Testing Install 150 Super-cores. 19%
- Terminal Creed Cleared Clear Terminal Creed. 18%
- Mechanic Repair Schrodinger 3 times. 15%
- Unlucky Day Install 200 bugged and viral Cores. 11%
- Weapon Showcase Purchase weapons from the Supply Shop 15 time(s). 10%
- Trusty Courier Help deliver Trevon's virus case 20 times. 9.7%
- Keep 'Em Comin' Perform 200 Chain-skill attacks. 8.0%
- Art Connoisseur Collect all Fan-art. 7.2%
- Clumsy One Be graded a D for battle 100 times. 5.5%
- Virtual Missions Cleared Clear all Virtual Missions. 5.5%
- Fantastic Killer Accomplish 30 fantastic kills. 5.4%
- Drone Harnesser Purchase drones from the Supply Shop 15 time(s). 4.5%
- Recor-D Collector Collect all Recor-Ds. 3.7%
- Triple Killer Accomplish 100 triple kills. 3.4%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-20.