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Give it 10 hours
Gets good by 10h then rated almost like by veterans
Started playing 80% of owners
Steam reviews 85% positive of 2,301
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 3 reviews are negative (38%); after 10h it's 1 in 9 (11%).
- Few early reviews, so this is a rough estimate.
- 80% 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.
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Based on all 2,321 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 298 reviews: 11.7h for positive, 7.1h 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 (80.3% 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 (28)
- Mathematic Reach the Engineer Citizen Tier. 100%
- Digging a Hole Repair the Mineshaft. 94%
- It's Yours, My Friend Buy something from the Store. 84%
- Conducted Trade Complete a Trade at the Train Station. 76%
- Going Places Excavate the first Rocket Part. 73%
- Aristocratic Reach the Aristobot Citizen Tier. 68%
- Tutti Frutti Have Miners, Prospectors, Mechanics and Guards on the same mine floor. 60%
- Systematic Reach the Scientist Citizen Tier. 48%
- Slotting Machine Have 20 Items slotted into buildings or quarters. 47%
- Gotta Go Fast Have a Steambot boosted by Speed Vents for 15 seconds. 45%
- Mine Sweeper Defeat 1000 Enemies across all playthroughs. 44%
- Roll Out Connect 5 Extractors to a single Conveyor Belt network. 43%
- Up, Up And Away! Launch the Rocket. 37%
- Dopa-Miner Open 50 Chests across all playthroughs. 36%
- Botropolis Have 2000 Citizens in your City. 33%
- Whoa! Teleport a Miner 100m. 30%
- Steam Powered Have 40 Refineries boosted by Steam. 25%
- Steaming Rich Amass a fortune of 1.500.000. 25%
- Manic Mechanic Build every Machine. 24%
- Room To Spare Reach a Global Storage of 150. 20%
- Click 'Em All Click 100 Tumbleweeds across all playthroughs. 12%
- Stack Overflow Reach a surplus of 100 citizens for all tiers. 12%
- Accustomed Customer Buy 100 Items from the Store across all playthroughs. 9.8%
- Real Purdy Build 100 decorations across all playthroughs. 9.0%
- Interstellar Performance Launch the Rocket on Hard Difficulty. 5.7%
- Yup. Launch the rocket without building any turrets 5.2%
- I'm A Lumberbot Chop down 50.000 trees across all playthroughs. 5.1%
- Nothing But Road Build 100km of Roads across all playthroughs. 2.7%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-20.