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Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
Give it 3 hours
Gets good by 3h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 10h rated like by long-time players
Reach the ending 52% of players who started
Started playing 88% of owners
Steam reviews 91% positive of 18,295
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 3 reviews are negative (32%); after 10h it's 1 in 17 (6%).
- Fully opens up by hour 10.
- 52% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “Rift Apart” (Get Separated in Nefarious City) and “Don't You Walk Away From Me” (Reach the Archives): from 100% to 73% of starters.
- 88% 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 18,437 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 298 reviews: 15.3h for positive, 8.9h 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 (87.8% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Rift Apart Get Separated in Nefarious City 100%
- Don't You Walk Away From Me Reach the Archives Most players quit here 73% −27
- This Crystal Is My Things Acquire Phase Quartz 68% −4
- Emotional Support Robot Meet the Fixer 65% −4
- It's Loose! Set Juice Free 63% −1
- Rated Aaarrr! Feed Bubbles 58% −5
- Return to Sender Sink the Mothership on Sargasso 58%
- No Bones About It Retrieve the Dimensional Map 56% −2
- I'm the Warden Now Break In and Out of Prison 55% −1
- 2 Fuzz 2 Nefarious Defeat Doctor and Emperor Nefarious 52% −3
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (47)
story milestone ending side
- Rift Apart Get Separated in Nefarious City 100%
- More Than Lint Enter a Hidden Pocket Dimension 91%
- Sartorial Steel Acquire a Piece of Armor 89%
- Does This Make My Tail Look Big? Acquire and Equip Head, Torso, and Leg Armor 88%
- Quantum Mechanic Repair a Dimensional Anomaly 86%
- Shiny! Collect a Gold Bolt 85%
- They Blow Up So Fast Get a Weapon to Level Five 85%
- Hide 'N Seekerpede Defeat the Seekerpede 85%
- Planning Some Destruction Collect a Spybot 82%
- Victory! Complete a Battleplex Challenge 81%
- It's So Fluffy! Find a CraiggerBear 80%
- Must Go Faster Do a Trick Jump While Going at Max Speed with the Hoverboots 75%
- Don't You Walk Away From Me Reach the Archives 73%
- No Need for Multiball Kill Two Enemies With a Single Ricochet Round 72%
- Full Rack Fill a Weapon Wheel 71%
- There's Even a Cupholder Fully Upgrade a Weapon 69%
- This Crystal Is My Things Acquire Phase Quartz 68%
- Nooks and Crannies Collect Five Gold Bolts 67%
- Emotional Support Robot Meet the Fixer 65%
- It's Loose! Set Juice Free 63%
- Feeding Friendsy Collect 10 Zurpstones for Trudi 62%
- BOING! Bounce on Big Al, Clank, and Qwark's Parade Balloons 61%
- Just Stay Down Defeat 30 Ejected Nefarious Trooper Heads 59%
- Rated Aaarrr! Feed Bubbles 58%
- Return to Sender Sink the Mothership on Sargasso 58%
- Sweet, Sweet Victory Collect Honey for Chef Tulio 58%
- Might've Broken Something Collect Three Lorbs 57%
- Life of the Party Deploy 50 Mr. Fungis 56%
- No Bones About It Retrieve the Dimensional Map 56%
- I'm the Warden Now Break In and Out of Prison 55%
- Icebreaker Melee Five Frozen Enemies 53%
- Alert the Sponsors Perform Five Trick Jumps on a Grind Rail 53%
- 2 Fuzz 2 Nefarious Defeat Doctor and Emperor Nefarious 52%
- Max Relax Find the Nefarious Citizens by the Hot Springs 51%
- Glitch, Uh, Finds a Way Complete All Glitch Challenges 49%
- Extinction Event Kill Five Grunthors 49%
- Extreme Gardening Defeat 30 Enemies While They are Topiary'd 48%
- Can't Stop Me Complete a Gold Cup Battleplex Challenge 47%
- Hole Puncher Get 20 Headshots with the Headhunter 44%
- Lombax and Chill Turn on the TV in Rivet's Hideout 43%
- Aim to Misbehave Acquire the RYNO 34%
- Shifty Character Hit Every Blizon Crystal on Blizar and Cordelion 34%
- Fully Stacked Purchase All Weapons 24%
- Hey Lombax DJ Play Three Songs on Zurkie's Jukebox 18%
- UnBEARably Awesome Find all CraiggerBears 14%
- Return Policy Kill 10 Enemies by Returning Shots with the Void Reactor 13%
- Masters of the Multiverse Collect all Achievements 12%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-18.