Card Survival: Tropical Island
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What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 4 reviews are negative (25%); after 20h it's 1 in 25 (4%).
- Fully opens up by hour 7.
- Few early reviews, so this is a rough estimate.
- At least 10% of players who start reach the ending.
- 87% 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 3,090 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 66.7h for positive, 55.6h 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 (87.3% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Hunter Victory Win a game as the Hunter character ≥10% −90
story milestone ending (most common ending) biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (54)
story milestone ending side
- Welcome to the Island! Eat and drink from a coconut 100%
- Day 1 Survive for a day 98%
- Secret of Fire Make a campfire 92%
- Small Game Hunt a Seagull, Partridge or Cobra 85%
- Day 7 Survive for a week 72%
- Big Game Hunt a Boar, Goat or Monitor Lizard 68%
- RIP Get your first Game Over 67%
- Survivor A La Carte Create a custom character 54%
- Homo Habilis Make a flint tool 53%
- Explosive Diarrhoea Get maximum stool liquidity 53%
- Day 30 Survive for a month 53%
- I Don't Feel So Good... Catch a fever 52%
- Island Gourmet Eat a meal prepared in a cooking pot 48%
- Plants For The Future Plant a crop 43%
- BFF Make yourself a friend in the literal sense 39%
- Treasure Hunting Find the Shipwreck 36%
- Home Sweet Home Make a mud hut 35%
- Monkey Business Make friends with a macaque 33%
- Master Tailor Max out your tailoring skill 31%
- Bronze Age Craft a copper tool 29%
- Master Herbologist Max out your herbology skill 28%
- Master Craftsman Max out your crafting skill 26%
- Master Spearman Max out your spear fighting skill 25%
- All Is Nothing Convince yourself you don't exist 24%
- Master Swimmer Max out your swimming skill 24%
- Master Carpenter Max out your woodworking skill 23%
- Master Chef Max out your cooking skill 23%
- Partridge Farmer Hatch a partridge egg 22%
- BOOM! Use dynamite! 18%
- Goat Farmer Have a goat give birth 15%
- Spiritual Victory Defeat the Hunter 15%
- Complete Collection Carve 5 different wood figurines 14%
- Not The Bees! Get swarmed by bees 13%
- Irresistible Get bitten by a Shark, a Macaque and a Monitor Lizard in the same run 13%
- What Just Happened? Have Weston talk back to you 13%
- Master Trapper Max out your trapping skill 12%
- High Fashion Craft a pearl necklace 11%
- Hunter Victory Win a game as the Hunter character 9.6%
- Reflection Face the Watcher 8.9%
- True Explorer Explore every outside location of the island 7.9%
- True Spelunker Explore all of the underground cave system 7.7%
- Master Fisherman Max out your fishing skill 7.7%
- Master Archer Max out your archery skill 7.6%
- Master Climber Max out your climbing skill 7.6%
- Master Spearfisher Max out your spear fishing skill 7.4%
- All Is Love Discover your own divinity 7.3%
- Master Knapper Max out your knapping skill 7.3%
- Master Percussionist Max out your percussion skill 6.3%
- Farmer Victory Win a game as the Farmer character 5.2%
- Speedrun Win a game in less than 60 days 4.4%
- Tourist Victory Win a game as the Tourist character 3.0%
- Mermaid Victory Win a game as the Mermaid character 2.4%
- Hard Mode Win a game with a custom character of at least 10.000pts of difficulty (safety mode NOT allowed) 1.8%
- Return To Monke Have 6 macaque friends and maximum comfort inside the macaque den 1.7%