Nova Lands
Give it 7 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 3 reviews are negative (37%); after 20h it's 1 in 16 (6%).
- Fully opens up by hour 20.
- Few early reviews, so this is a rough estimate.
- Most players drop off before “The First Beast: Moschillar” (Defeat or befriend the Moschillar): only 58% of starters get there.
- 84% 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 3,585 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 293 reviews: 24.8h for positive, 7.7h 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.
- Started playing 100%
- The First Beast: Moschillar Defeat or befriend the Moschillar Most players quit here 58% −42
- The Second Beast: Drameleon Defeat or befriend the Drameleon 52% −6
- The Third Beast: Tunasa Defeat or befriend the Tunasa 42% −10
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (24)
story milestone ending side
- The Automation Starts Connect a bot to a bot antenna 100%
- Industrial Progress Produce your first Steel 84%
- Industrial Life Produce 50 Steel 74%
- Catch’Em All Capture a creature 72%
- Curious Explorer Discover 7 islands 69%
- The First Beast: Moschillar Defeat or befriend the Moschillar 58%
- Hanging Out With The Aliens Visit the space station 53%
- The Second Beast: Drameleon Defeat or befriend the Drameleon 52%
- From Sticks to Computers Produce your first Computer 51%
- You Look Amazing Unlock 25 skins 48%
- We Steel Need More Produce 1.000 Steel 48%
- A big step for mankind Start a spacewalk 46%
- The Third Beast: Tunasa Defeat or befriend the Tunasa 42%
- Anthill Have 40 bots working at the same time 38%
- A Fancy Calculator Produce your first Supercomputer 36%
- Special Knowledge Complete the tech tree on the Research 33%
- Home Owner Unlock the player’s house 33%
- Will of Steel Produce 10.000 Steel 32%
- Hyper Math Produce your first Hypercomputer 29%
- So Shiny Craft a Diamond Dash 23%
- Knowledge Archive Complete the museum 22%
- I Found The Developers 20%
- Comfy Flight 17%
- Targets Found 15%