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Glyphica: Typing Survival
Hooks you almost right away
Gets good by 2h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Started playing 34% of owners
Steam reviews 91% positive of 2,606
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 7 reviews are negative (14%); after 3h it's 1 in 16 (6%).
- The opening is criticised less than in 84% of games we track.
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- Only 34% 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 2,641 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 300 reviews: 6.5h for positive, 5.4h 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 (34.2% 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 (68)
story milestone ending side
- Rapid Fire Beat Trial Mode with Repeater. 100%
- Crossing the Line Beat Trial Mode with Heat Ray. 48%
- Bombs Away! Beat Trial Mode with Barrage. 34%
- First Convergence Beat Trial Mode with Overmind. 33%
- Repeater Adept Reach 250 dps with Repeater. 29%
- Hunter Adept Reach 250 dps with Hunter. 27%
- Typist Reach 500 Perfect Input. 26%
- Determination Survive 20 minutes in Endless Mode with any main weapon. 26%
- Slimer Beat Trial Mode with Splatter Shot. 26%
- Lock n' Loaded Complete the Main Weapon Augment Codex. 23%
- No Operator Required Complete the Drone Augment Codex. 22%
- Oscillator Adept Reach 250 dps with Oscillator. 21%
- Perimeter Control Complete the Turret Augment Codex. 18%
- Chaos Protocol Beat Trial Mode with Wildcard. 17%
- Heat Ray Adept Reach 250 dps with Heat Ray. 17%
- Slow and Painful Complete the Damage Over Time Augment Codex. 16%
- Invisible Hand Complete the Remote Augment Codex. 15%
- Hunter Mastery Reach 500 dps with Hunter. 15%
- Repeater Mastery Reach 500 dps with Repeater. 14%
- Current Affairs Complete the Electric Augment Codex. 14%
- Burn Notice Complete the Heat Augment Codex. 14%
- Barrage Adept Reach 250 dps with Barrage. 13%
- Blade Adept Reach 250 dps with Blade Trap. 13%
- Minefield Adept Reach 250 dps with Minefield. 12%
- Overmind Adept Reach 250 dps with Overmind 12%
- Perfectionist Reach 1000 Perfect Input. 11%
- Guardian Adept Reach 250 dps with Guardian. 9.9%
- Oscillator Mastery Reach 500 dps with Oscillator. 9.4%
- Persistence Survive 30 minutes in Endless Mode with any main weapon. 9.1%
- Sentry Adept Reach 250 dps with Sentry. 9.1%
- Repetition is Key Beat Trial Mode using only Repeater. 7.3%
- Splatter Shot Adept Reach 250 dps with Splatter Shot. 7.3%
- Spray n' Pray Beat Trial Mode on Omen VI with Repeater. 7.0%
- Blade Mastery Reach 500 dps with Blade Trap. 6.7%
- Minefield Mastery Reach 500 dps with Minefield. 6.7%
- Hot Shot Beat Trial Mode using only Heat Ray. 6.4%
- Wildcard Adept Reach 250 dps with Wildcard. 6.4%
- Heat Ray Mastery Reach 500 dps with Heat Ray. 5.8%
- Wordsmith Type 25000 words. 5.8%
- Treasure Hunter Collect 500 loot. 5.6%
- Sticky Situation Beat Trial Mode using only Splatter Shot. 5.6%
- Chain Reaction Beat Trial Mode using only Barrage. 5.3%
- Tesla Adept Reach 250 dps with Tesla Mine. 5.0%
- Barrage Mastery Reach 500 dps with Barrage. 4.7%
- Laser Focused Beat Trial Mode on Omen VI with Heat Ray. 4.7%
- Sentry Mastery Reach 500 dps with Sentry. 4.4%
- Entropy Engine Beat Trial Mode with only Wildcard. 4.4%
- Meteor Adept Reach 250 dps with Meteor. 4.1%
- Spectre Adept Reach 250 dps with Spectre. 4.1%
- Tesla Mastery Reach 500 dps with Tesla Mine. 4.1%
- The Collective Beat Trial Mode with only Overmind. 3.5%
- Spectre Mastery Reach 500 dps with Spectre. 3.5%
- Bombardier Beat Trial Mode on Omen VI with Barrage. 3.2%
- Guardian Mastery Reach 500 dps with Guardian. 2.9%
- Orbiter Adept Reach 250 dps with Orbiter. 2.9%
- Overmind Mastery Reach 500 dps with Overmind 2.9%
- Voice of the Many Beat Trial Mode on Omen VI with Overmind. 2.9%
- Graffiti Artist Beat Trial Mode on Omen VI with Splatter Shot. 2.9%
- Chopper Adept Reach 250 dps with Chopper. 2.6%
- Chopper Mastery Reach 500 dps with Chopper. 2.6%
- Wildcard Mastery Reach 500 dps with Wildcard. 2.6%
- Polyglot Beat Trial Mode in 3 different typing languages. 2.3%
- Loot Whisperer Collect 1000 loot. 2.0%
- Splatter Shot Mastery Reach 500 dps with Splatter Shot. 2.0%
- Fluxbreaker Beat Trial Mode on Omen VI with Wildcard. 2.0%
- War of the Words Type 50000 words. 2.0%
- Meteor Mastery Reach 500 dps with Meteor. 1.8%
- Orbiter Mastery Reach 500 dps with Orbiter. 1.5%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-20.