Slime Rancher 2
Hooks you almost right away
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 9 reviews are negative (11%); after 10h it's 1 in 20 (5%).
- Fully opens up by hour 3.
- The opening is criticised less than in 89% of games we track.
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- Only 38% 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.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 51,070 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 295 reviews: 18h for positive, 10.1h 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 (37.5% 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 (27)
story milestone ending side
- Tinkerer Place your first gadget. 100%
- Rainbow Explorer Discover any three areas. 93%
- Pop! Feed 3 Gordos to bursting. 89%
- Tinker Tailor Science Slime Craft 8 unique player upgrades. 60%
- Far Range Friends Use the Comm Station to receive a gift from Mochi, Viktor, Thora, Ogden, and BOb. 60%
- Plortonomics Sell 15 different types of plorts. 53%
- Can't Make an Omelette Break a Yolky Slime egg. 52%
- Beam Me Up Craft and use a Return Home Portal. 51%
- Into the Unknown Open a door to the Grey Labyrinth. 45%
- Complete Conservatory Purchase 5 Ranch Expansions. 43%
- Treasure Hunter Loot 50 treasure pods. 39%
- Secret Behind the Waterfall Discover Powderfall Bluffs' entrance. 36%
- Charged Up Get hit by a bolt of lightning. 35%
- You Can Pet the Cat Pet the ProntoMart cat. 32%
- Bea-llionaire Earn 100000 newbucks from selling plorts. 29%
- Fly like a Bea Fly for 5 seconds using the jetpack. 29%
- Core Breach Enter the Prismacore within the Grey Labyrinth. 24%
- Polestar Pro Purchase 40 items in the Polestar Provisions shop. 17%
- Turn the Dial Fill 10 Shadow Plort Collectors in the Grey Labyrinth. 17%
- A Real Hero Help Gigi stabilize the Prismacore and save Rainbow Island. 14%
- Quantum Crafter Craft 5 Quantum Drones. 11%
- Tarrnado Shoot a tarr into a tornado. 8.3%
- Shady Deals Make 3 purchases on the Night Market. 6.7%
- Now You're Thinking With Plortals Fire a plort through a linked cannon, sending it to the plort market. 6.4%
- All That Glitters Have a Strange Diamond, Sun Sap, Royal Jelly, and Lightning Mote in your vac at the same time. 5.6%
- Rainbow Researcher Complete the Slimepedia. 4.5%
- A Real Goal-Getter Get a score of 120 on a Slimeball goal gadget within 1 minute. 4.0%