SteamWorld Dig
Give it 3 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 4 reviews are negative (26%); after 5h it's 1 in 35 (3%).
- Fully opens up by hour 5.
- 34% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “Scratching the Surface” (You found Archaea!) and “Mythical Creatures” (You found the Old World!): from 100% to 58% of starters.
- 84% 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 11,146 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 157 reviews: 7h for positive, 0.9h 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 (83.9% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Scratching the Surface You found Archaea! 100%
- Mythical Creatures You found the Old World! Most players quit here 58% −42
- It Goes Deeper!? You found Vectron! 43% −15
- Assimilated Immortalization of a destructible steambot. 34% −10
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (24)
story milestone ending side
- Scratching the Surface You found Archaea! 100%
- The Good Defeat 10 trilobites before they wake up. 69%
- Trash Man Find and sell 8 Trashium ores at the same time. 62%
- Mythical Creatures You found the Old World! 58%
- It Goes Deeper!? You found Vectron! 43%
- Support Your Community Buy from all of Tumbleton's shops. 40%
- Assimilated Immortalization of a destructible steambot. 34%
- The Bad Defeat 10 shiners before they wake up. 32%
- Rock Bottom Reach the bottom of the world. 30%
- Half Life 8 Confirmed Find and sell 8 Uranium ores at the same time. 28%
- Turtle Soup, Yum! Defeat a turtle submerged in water. 27%
- Shine on, You Crazy Round Thing Complete the game with more than 150 orbs collected in total. 25%
- Two Kinds of People Complete the game with more than 20000 gold collected in total. 20%
- What's the Matter? Find and sell 16 Dark Matter ores at the same time. 19%
- Fully Loaded Maximize all upgrades. 13%
- Dig Dug Skills Crush 10 enemies with falling blocks. 12%
- The Ugly Defeat 10 mecha trilobites before they wake up. 10%
- 99 Problems and the Box Ain't One Destroy a laser box. 7.5%
- It's a Secret to Everybody Find all secret areas in the caves. 6.4%
- Quicker Than a Tumbleweed Complete the game in less than 2 hours, 30 minutes. 4.6%
- Just Like Real Life Complete the game without getting killed once. 4.5%
- Sequence Breaker Destroy two generators before entering Vectron. 4.4%
- A Fistful of Dirt Dig out 15000 tiles. 4.3%
- Master Prospector Get all four gold stars in the same playthrough. 3.8%