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Lil Gator Game
Hooks you almost right away
Gets good by 2h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 3h rated like by long-time players
Reach the ending 56% of players who started
Started playing 78% of owners
Steam reviews 99% positive of 6,183
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 9 reviews are negative (11%); after 4h it's 1 in 270 (0%).
- Fully opens up by hour 3.
- The opening is criticised less than in 88% of games we track.
- 56% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “Change Of Plans” (Undertake a new, bigger quest) and “Growing With Water” (Completed Martin's Quest): from 100% to 66% of starters.
- 78% 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 6,261 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 298 reviews: 5.4h for positive, 2.5h 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 (77.6% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Change Of Plans Undertake a new, bigger quest. 100%
- Growing With Water Completed Martin's Quest Most players quit here 66% −34
- Enrichment Through Invention Completed Jill's Quest 63% −3
- Lunch By Compromise Completed Avery's Quest 60% −3
- Lesson Learned Complete the story. 56% −4
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (41)
story milestone ending side
- Change Of Plans Undertake a new, bigger quest. 100%
- Growing With Water Completed Martin's Quest 66%
- Enrichment Through Invention Completed Jill's Quest 63%
- Lunch By Compromise Completed Avery's Quest 60%
- Lesson Learned Complete the story. 56%
- Infinite power!!! Acquire all bracelets, and gain enlightenment. 49%
- Interrupt This Broadcast Climb to the tippy top of the antenna. 46%
- Oof! Ragdoll into something as fast as you can. 44%
- Hidden Scale Clan Equip the full ninja set. 43%
- Hero of the People Make friends with everyone on the island. 42%
- Under New Management Take a seat in the Junk Shop. 39%
- Lizard In Space Equip the full space set. 37%
- Name Reveal! Learn the monkey's name. 37%
- Craftslayer Break everything on the island. 36%
- Demon of DIY Craft every item. 36%
- Ascend Try to touch the sky. 34%
- Gatorangelo Equip the full paint set. 33%
- ACTUAL Name Reveal! Learn the monkey's real name. 33%
- THIS Is The Real Name Instruct the monkey on the power of creativity. 33%
- BELIEVE ME, THIS IS THE REAL NAME Learn the monkey's TRUE name. 32%
- EMBRACE THE UNKNOWN YOU WILL NEVER KNOW THE TRUTH. 32%
- Spider-Gator Swing with the Sticky Hand 5 times without touching the ground. 29%
- Classic Discover a secret passageway between the island and the underground. 24%
- Charming Get your first charm item. 12%
- Into The Dark Gain access to the underground. 12%
- Destiny Beguiled Complete Emilio's quest. 9.8%
- Let The Lich Sleep Complete Ruth's quest. 9.7%
- Fracas at the Flowstone Complete Amberly's quest. 9.4%
- Nobody Left Behind Complete the story of In The Dark. 8.9%
- The Best Shield In The Game Use the web shield. Yep, that's what it does. 8.5%
- Armed And Disarming Get one of each type of charm weapon. 7.7%
- Cryptids Are Real Complete Nodd's research. 7.7%
- Friends Of Friends Catch up with your surface friends hanging out near waterfalls. 7.5%
- No More Minions Make friends with everyone in the underground. 7.3%
- Je Ne Sais Quarming Get all charm items. 7.1%
- A Sneaking Mission Beat Ruth's minigame while she's paying attention. 7.0%
- Dressing While Down Craft every item in the underground. 6.7%
- To The Other-Other Side Break everything in the underground. 6.6%
- Pardon Our Gravel Clean up all the rubble in the underground. 6.3%
- This Totally Counts Defeat Amberly in a fair-enough race. 6.2%
- Lil Gator Cinematic Universe Get 5 unique endings to Emilio's movie. 5.4%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-19.