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Dome Keeper
Give it 3 hours
Gets good by 3h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 7h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 86% of owners
Steam reviews 92% positive of 22,672
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 3 reviews are negative (31%); after 7h it's 1 in 25 (4%).
- Fully opens up by hour 7.
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- 86% 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 22,878 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 297 reviews: 14.5h for positive, 5.2h 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 (85.9% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
This game has no story achievements, so we can't tell where players quit.
All achievements (47)
story milestone ending side
- Precisely when I meant to Enter the dome the second the battle starts. 100%
- Gifts from the past Retrieve a relic. 96%
- Land of the orbs Unlock the orb world. 94%
- Bite sized Complete relic hunt on a small map. 93%
- Hoarder Hoard 8 cobalt. 84%
- Land of the behemoth Unlock the behemoth world. 71%
- Master of Gravity Unlock the Assessor. 67%
- The regular Complete relic hunt on a medium sized map. 66%
- I came prepared After retrieving the relic, beat the final wave without the help of the relic bomb. 62%
- Stick them with the pointy end Unlock the sword dome. 60%
- Find a Friend Hatch the mysterious egg. 56%
- Land of the stalks Unlock the stalk world. 53%
- A keeper of status Unlock the prestige mode. 48%
- The deep end Complete relic hunt on a large map. 46%
- Half Marathon Travel half the length of a Marathon in one run. 39%
- Land of the Spores Unlock the mushroom world. 38%
- My Savior Find a cobalt while having none stored and the dome being under 10% health. 35%
- Deep and Greedy Reach depth 100. 34%
- Shopping Bag Conundrum Carry 20 resources back to the dome in one go. 29%
- Ready for Battle Have 200 or more shield hp ready. 29%
- Close Call Survive a battle with 1% health left. 26%
- Waterworld Produce 10 water with the condenser in one run. 25%
- Bulky Goods Shoot a bundle of at least 25 resources as the Assessor. 24%
- Veteran Keeper Win 10 runs. 23%
- Transmogrification Perform 10 conversions in one run. 19%
- My good mule Have the lift transport 200 resources in one run. 18%
- Shield Completed Unlock every battle ability of the shield. 18%
- Perfect Placement Have a sphere fly for 23s or more, without reflecting it as the Assessor. 17%
- Learning Opportunity Lose 10 runs. 17%
- Earth shattering Use 15 blast charges in one run. 17%
- The third eye Detect 15 resources with the probe in one cycle. 17%
- Quick Finish Retrieve the relic within 20 minutes. 16%
- Hat Trick Explode 3 spheres with one activation as the Assessor. 15%
- The Need for Speed Reach a speed of 200 with the engineer. 14%
- Orchard completed Unlock every battle ability of the orchard. 14%
- Full Clip Have 6 spheres ready to fire as the Assessor. 11%
- Thorough Mine every block. 11%
- Take your time Delay a wave by more than 0.5 cycles. 9.7%
- Rich in Fiber Consume a fruit that buffs you for at least 0.9 cycles. 9.4%
- Doping Feed 10 treats to Drillbert in one run. 9.3%
- Bringing home the big bucks Gain 200 prestige in one wave. 9.2%
- Repellent completed Unlock every battle ability of the repellent. 7.8%
- My name shall be known Win a prestige run with 1000 points or more. 7.3%
- We're gonna need a bigger lift Have 80 resources hanging in the lift. 6.4%
- Solitaire Pong Reflect a sphere 40 times in a row as the Assessor. 6.3%
- Compounding interest Reach a prestige multiplier of 10 in endless mode. 3.5%
- Great-Great-Grandspheres Split a sphere into the 5th generation as the Assessor. 2.8%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-18.