Survival: Fountain of Youth
Give it 7 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (59%); after 20h it's 1 in 17 (6%).
- Fully opens up by hour 20.
- The opening is criticised more than in 88% of games we track.
- 10% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “Survivor” (Survive the shipwreck) and “Who is the boss?!” (Kill the Great Jackal): from 100% to 16% of starters.
- 96% 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 4,562 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 300 reviews: 60.9h for positive, 3.9h 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 (95.7% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Survivor Survive the shipwreck 100%
- Who is the boss?! Kill the Great Jackal Most players quit here 16% −84
- If it bleeds, we can kill it! Kill Great Serpent 10% −5
- The Lord's way Defeat the Final Enemy 10%
- The journey’s end Complete the game 10%
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (49)
story milestone ending side
- Survivor Survive the shipwreck 100%
- It worked! Unlock 20 recipes 98%
- Sharp eye, strong hand Craft a Spear 91%
- Jack-of-all-trades Unlock 50 recipes 78%
- Achilles and the Tortoise Kill a Tortoise 62%
- Newcoming Robinson Spend 2 hours in game 58%
- Gifts of the volcano Find an Obsidian Shard 56%
- Let there be rain! Build a Water Collector 52%
- Can pigs fly? Kill a Boar 51%
- The jackal in the hide Kill a Jackal 49%
- Time to clay Find a Сlay Piece 48%
- Oops Faint for the first time 47%
- Time to shoot Craft a bow 46%
- Off we go Build a vessel 41%
- Catching the Big Fish Catch a fish 38%
- Reinventing the wheel Build a Cart for transporting 37%
- No smoke without fire Build a Kiln 37%
- Master of Alchemy Build a Chemistry Workbench 36%
- It ain’t that bad here! Spend 10 hours in game 36%
- Shining! Find copper 34%
- Hey Kitty Kill a jaguar 32%
- Able diver Find a Sea Resource 31%
- Full House Have 10 statuses simultaneously 30%
- Walking Factory Unlock 200 recipes 29%
- True Islander Complete 10 survival tasks 27%
- Under the Sea Kill a shark 25%
- Survivalist Survive 100 days in a row 25%
- Bottoms Up! Build a Moonshine still 23%
- Getting dirty Build Compost Pit 23%
- Iron Maiden Find iron 23%
- Pulling the trigger Craft crossbow 20%
- See you later, Alligator Kill caiman 19%
- Master and Commander Build a schooner 17%
- Ray Ban Kill electric ray 17%
- Thirty pieces of silver Find silver 16%
- Who is the boss?! Kill the Great Jackal 16%
- You’re not…Maugli… Kill Black panther 12%
- Fire in the hole! Craft Flintlock Gun 11%
- If it bleeds, we can kill it! Kill Great Serpent 10%
- The Lord's way Defeat the Final Enemy 10%
- The journey’s end Complete the game 9.9%
- The eye of the storm Build Stormbreaker 9.1%
- Constant gardener Grow 20 plants on a farm 8.3%
- Rising and falling Faint 10 times 8.0%
- Treasure hunter Open 10 underwater chests 7.3%
- Discoverer and explorer Unlock all locations in game 7.1%
- Song of the New Native Pass Bimini belt along the Natives' Way 6.0%
- Some grave to dig Kill an animal with the shovel 5.1%
- Ultimate Predator Craft the whole Hunter set 4.9%