Nine Sols
Give it 15 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 4 reviews are negative (27%); after 20h it's 1 in 40 (2%).
- Fully opens up by hour 20.
- At least 24% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “My Revenge Starts Here” (Defeat Baichang) and “I'm Coming for You, Old Friend” (Defeat Yingzhao): from 100% to 70% of starters.
- 83% 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 46,636 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 31.3h for positive, 13.6h 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 (83.4% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- My Revenge Starts Here Defeat Baichang. 100%
- I'm Coming for You, Old Friend Defeat Yingzhao. Most players quit here 71% −29
- Reap What You Sow Defeat Goumang. 57% −13
- You Should Respect Your Elders Defeat Yanlao. 50% −7
- No Pain, No Gain Defeat Jiequan. 45% −5
- Wake Up From My Sin Defeat Lady Ethereal. 43% −2
- We Have Each Other Defeat Fuxi and Nuwa. 39% −4
- Come, Sweet Death Defeat Ji. 40% +1
- Learned From the Best Defeat Eigong. 32% −8
- Home Sweet Home Return to the home world of Solarian. ≥24% −8
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 (35)
story milestone ending side
- My Revenge Starts Here Defeat Baichang. 100%
- I'm Coming for You, Old Friend Defeat Yingzhao. 71%
- Reap What You Sow Defeat Goumang. 57%
- You Should Respect Your Elders Defeat Yanlao. 50%
- Jail Break Successfully escape from prison. 48%
- No Pain, No Gain Defeat Jiequan. 45%
- Wake Up From My Sin Defeat Lady Ethereal. 43%
- The Cavalry's Here Rescue the people of the Peach Blossom Village. 43%
- Do Re Mi So La Unravel the mystery of the Daybreak Tower's music sheet. 42%
- Come, Sweet Death Defeat Ji. 40%
- We Have Each Other Defeat Fuxi and Nuwa. 39%
- Gimme Gimme Establish a deep relationship with Shuanshuan. 39%
- Across Time and Space Bid farewell to Lear. 36%
- Magical Bean Help Shuanshuan unlock the true potential of agriculture. 35%
- Fight Dirty Use the Gene Eradicator to fight Jiequan. 34%
- You Bastard... Obtain map data from Shanhai 9000 by force. 33%
- Stonks! Recycle Shuanshuan's coin. 32%
- Learned From the Best Defeat Eigong. 32%
- Evolution Discover a tremendous secret. 32%
- One Man Army Defeat every optional miniboss. 30%
- I'm Yi, I Have a Drinking Problem Drink all the wine brewed by Shennong. 29%
- Blessed Messages Discover the message board for blessings upon the Departure of New Kunlun's Voyage. 29%
- Passing on the Torch Help Shennong become the leader of Peach Blossom Village. 28%
- Fight Through Hardship Finish Nine Sols on Standard Mode. 27%
- The Warrior Within Master all skills in the skill tree. 25%
- Well Prepared Collect every Jade. 24%
- Home Sweet Home Return to the home world of Solarian. 24%
- Found You Help Shanhai 9000 find Chien. 23%
- Shooting Star Witness the end of New Kunlun. 23%
- My Most Trusted Friend Max out the ammo capacity of the Azure Bow and obtain Cloud Piercer X, Thunder Buster X, and Shadow Hunter X. 22%
- Rest for the Wicked Help Chiyou bring peace to Xingtian. 22%
- What Have You Done?! Break the clay pot made by Shuanshuan 22%
- Repurposed Use the Fortune teller machine crafted by Shuanshuan. 20%
- Treasure Hunter Find all resources and information marked by Shanhai 9000. 19%
- Robo Fight! Defeat Tianshou while driving a robot. 18%