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Laysara: Summit Kingdom
Give it 2 hours
Gets good by 2h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 7h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 25% of owners
Steam reviews 82% positive of 1,499
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours almost 1 in 2 reviews are negative (42%); after 7h it's 1 in 13 (8%).
- Fully opens up by hour 7.
- Only 25% 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 1,513 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 295 reviews: 16.4h for positive, 6.3h 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 (24.7% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
Story milestones aren't labeled yet; all achievements are listed below.
All achievements (48)
- Mastering the basics Complete two tutorial missions in campaign 100%
- Yak enthusiast Have 100 yak population 66%
- Snowy consequences Have a single avalanche strike 10 buildings 32%
- Heavy fumes Distribute 10 or more incense via a single Shrine 28%
- Follower Raise a Summit Temple in campaign 26%
- Totally not taxes Have +2500 donations revenue from a single Donation Spot 24%
- Yak master Have 500 yak population 15%
- Master disaster Have money balance -10000 or less 13%
- Discerning Start a game on a Custom difficulty 8.9%
- Morning walk Create a transport route from Yak Post that is at least 1000 metres long 8.5%
- On the edge Pause the game with 1 coin left in the treasury 8.5%
- Laysara's saviour Complete the campaign 6.5%
- Midas Have money balance +3000 or more 5.3%
- Tech-sceptic At the moment of completing Summit Temple have only Simple Yak Breedings as a source of your yak population 4.9%
- Mole Extract 100 or more of a single resource from a tunnel network 4.9%
- Rough start Lose a game on Novice difficulty 4.5%
- Conquered Demon's Rest Complete scenario on Demon's Rest 2.8%
- This is the life Fulfill all needs of the citizens living in any given house (outside of tutorial and challenges) 2.4%
- Conquered Talontop Complete scenario on Talontop 2.0%
- And lived happily ever after Build two more Summit Temples in a sandbox continuation of a finished campaign. 1.6%
- Observer Take a screenshot in the Photo Mode 1.6%
- Conquered Mount Plenty Complete scenario on Mount Plenty 1.6%
- Miner In any scenario, have operational mines on all resource deposits 1.6%
- Rainy close call Complete a weather breakdown quest in the last possible moment 1.6%
- Puzzle-solver Complete any challenge 1.2%
- Free spirit Have level 4 house buried in snow in Free Build mode 1.2%
- Kingdom builder Raise Summit Temples on all big mountains in Sandbox 1.2%
- Conquered Smothered Flame Complete scenario on Smothered Flame 1.2%
- Conquered Snowfury Summit Complete scenario on Snowfury Summit 1.2%
- Conquered Splintered Soul Complete scenario on Splintered Soul 1.2%
- Conquered Windslab Complete scenario on Windslab 1.2%
- Better safe than sorry Reduce snow cap avalanche strength from 3 to 1 using two Avalanche Inducers 1.2%
- Yak demiurg Have 1000 yak population 1.2%
- Believer Raise a Summit Temple on Celestial Rise in Sandbox 0.8%
- Yak of all trades Trade with 24 different resources in Sandbox 0.8%
- Conquered Plain Rock Complete scenario on Plain Rock 0.8%
- Trade union Have +5000 or more revenue from trade 0.8%
- Maniac puzzle-solver Complete 8 challenges 0.4%
- Savant Complete 8 challenges on a boosted difficulty 0.4%
- Close call Complete a challenge in the last possible moment 0.4%
- Expert puzzle-solver Complete any challenge on a boosted dificulty 0.4%
- Inflation? What's this? Have +7000 or more revenue from minting 0.4%
- Brilliant management Money penalty incurred for building buried in snow, failed weather breakdown quest, overloaded Lift Station Bases and missing research applied simultaneously 0.4%
- Because it is hard Sell 24 or more of Ornamented Cedar through a single Trading Post 0.4%
- Human resources Have 2000 citizens of each caste in the city 0.4%
- Fanatic Reach research level 24 0.4%
- True veteran Complete any scenario on Veteran difficulty 0.4%
- Conquered Saltspire Peaks Complete scenario on Saltspire Peaks 0.4%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-20.