When does Awesomenauts get good?

Give it 2 hours. In the first 2 hours 1 in 3 reviews are negative (32%); after 15h it's 1 in 7 (14%). Fully opens up by hour 3.

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Awesomenauts

Aug 1, 2012 Steam: Very Positive

Give it 2 hours

Gets good by 2h almost every game dips in hours 2–3

Fully opens up by 3h rated like by long-time players

Started playing 61% of owners

Steam reviews 85% positive of 26,849

What the data shows

In the first 2 hours 1 in 3 reviews are negative (32%); after 15h it's 1 in 7 (14%).
Fully opens up by hour 3.
The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
Only 61% 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 26,925 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 172 reviews: 93.5h for positive, 56.1h 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 (61.3% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.

This game has no story achievements, so we can't tell where players quit.

All achievements (46)

story milestone ending side

Thunder, thunder, thunder! 1 Kill 3 enemy Awesomenauts without dying. 100%
Inspector without gadgets Have more than 500 Solar at once (late game bonus does not count). 99%
Yoooo JOE! 1 Win an online game session. 94%
Riding my robotic steed Get first blood. 93%
Croaked by a toad Get killed by a creep. 91%
Knight of the magic light 1 Kill 10 enemy Awesomenauts. 90%
Hawk, wolf, puma and bear 1 Kill 100 droids/creeps. 86%
Thunder, thunder, thunder! 2 Kill 5 enemy Awesomenauts without dying. 82%
Venom is too slow Win a game in less than 10 minutes. 73%
Thunder, thunder, thunder! 3 Kill 7 enemy Awesomenauts without dying. 64%
In pole position Make the most kills of both teams in an online game session. 63%
Let our powers combine! Play a game session with friends invited through the game session setup. 63%
Knight of the magic light 2 Kill 30 enemy Awesomenauts. 62%
Hawk, wolf, puma and bear 2 Kill 300 droids/creeps. 59%
Swimming in coins 1 Earn a total of 10000 Solar ingame (late game bonus does not count). 59%
Wings of silver Collect 35 Solar on a drop-pod drop. 57%
Robots fighting their shadows Play against a team with the same Awesomenauts. 45%
T-U-R-R-E-T powah! 1 Destroy 10 turrets. 43%
Yoooo JOE! 2 Win 10 online game sessions. 36%
Knight of the magic light 3 Kill 100 enemy Awesomenauts. 35%
Hawk, wolf, puma and bear 3 Kill 1000 droids/creeps. 33%
Bionic family Win game sessions with 8 different characters. 30%
Bouncing bear juice Become AWESOME! 19%
T-U-R-R-E-T powah! 2 Destroy 30 turrets. 19%
Dinosaurs don’t like brain boxes Kill an enemy Awesomenaut without buying any items. 17%
Creeper virus Get Infected! 17%
Yoooo JOE! 3 Win 30 online game sessions. 16%
Scramble! Taunt an enemy after killing him. 14%
Swimming in coins 2 Earn a total of 100000 Solar ingame (late game bonus does not count). 14%
I will have my vengeance Venger! Taunt an enemy after he killed you. 12%
Yoooo JOE! 4 Win 50 online game sessions. 11%
Attack of the botanic army! Place 100 weedlings. 10%
Slimer's evil twin 1 Kill the Solar boss 10 times in online game sessions. 9.5%
Lightning strikes the vines Destroy 4 turrets in a single match. 9.1%
T-U-R-R-E-T powah! 3 Destroy 100 turrets. 7.5%
Yoooo JOE! 5 Win 100 online game sessions. 6.7%
Wrecking Wilson's garden Feed the weedlings to the worm 10 times. 6.5%
Slimer's evil twin 2 Kill the Solar boss 30 times in online game sessions. 5.4%
Part robot, part human. Mostly robot. Kill Ted Mc Pain as Clunk. 4.6%
Party at Sky Vault Win a game session with 2 friends splitscreen. 4.2%
Befriending a red bat As Coco win a game together with Skree. 4.1%
Swimming in coins 3 Earn a total of 1000000 Solar ingame (late game bonus does not count). 3.9%
Slimer's evil twin 3 Kill the Solar boss 100 times in online game sessions. 3.6%
No might can stop this oil can! Get the maximum possible health with Clunk. 3.1%
Swiftly through the forest Race with Coco from Solar Drill to Solar Drill in less than 15 seconds on Sorona. 2.9%
Snorkel pipe boost Kill the Solar boss before the 2:10 minute mark. 2.8%

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