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Heat Signature
Give it 4 hours
Gets good by 4h then rated almost like by veterans
Fully opens up by 10h rated like by long-time players
Reach the ending 12% of players who started
Started playing 87% of owners
Steam reviews 94% positive of 7,440
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 3 reviews are negative (34%); after 15h it's 1 in 60 (2%).
- Fully opens up by hour 10.
- 12% of players who start reach the ending.
- Most players drop off before “End Game”: only 12% of starters get there.
- 87% 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 7,488 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 25.7h for positive, 3.5h 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 (86.8% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- End Game Talk to Fiasco after liberating every Stronghold Most players quit here 12% −88
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (70)
story milestone ending side
- End of an Era Retire Sader Fiasco 100%
- Magic Reality Complete a practice mission 90%
- Liberator Liberate a station 80%
- Nails Complete a Hard (or harder) mission 75%
- Legend Retire as a Living Legend 65%
- Bloodless Complete a Bloodless Clause 64%
- Out of Gas Dock at a friendly station while on emergency fuel 64%
- Defenceless Crash a shield 62%
- Objects in Space Board a ship without docking your pod 62%
- Known Issue Cause a sentry to shoot a guard by subverting it 55%
- Enigma Complete an Enigma Clause 55%
- Jam Take down a Jammer 53%
- Gold Text Find a unique item 52%
- Living in a Bubble Reflect a bullet with an emergency shield 51%
- Audacity Complete an Audacious (or harder) mission 50%
- Lightning Strike Take someone out with a melee attack less than 0.5 seconds after Sidewinding 49%
- Shields Down Take down a Defender 47%
- Closure Complete your personal mission 46%
- I Wouldn't... Cause a guard with a subverted shield to shoot themselves 46%
- Silence Complete a Silence Clause 45%
- Visitor Pass Acquire a keycard while Visiting 44%
- Conflicted Hitman Deliver an assassination target alive 40%
- Correction Complete a Mistake mission 40%
- A Weight Lifted Be rescued from your captor by the Visitor 38%
- White Knuckle Extraction Catch a Rescue target in your pod while they're suffocating in space 37%
- Ghost Thief Complete a theft without being seen or harming anyone 36%
- Nitojutsu Kill someone with a Shortblade within 1 second of killing someone with a Longblade 36%
- Only The Guilty Complete an assassination mission without harming any other crew 36%
- Spacewalker Make it to a station after your pod has been destroyed 34%
- Ambush Take down a Tracker 34%
- Angel Save someone with the Offworld Angel 33%
- Strange Justice Cause a guard to shoot themselves by Swapping with them 28%
- Tick Teleport to an airlock with the Glitcher's Tick 27%
- Pacifist Complete a Pacifist Clause 26%
- Cauldron of Stars Start a new galaxy 26%
- Ghost Complete a Ghost Clause 25%
- Prey Take down a Predator 24%
- Coldfire Pass through a ship's vision undetected in the Sovereign Coldfire 23%
- Billions Dead Delete a Galaxy 22%
- Brick Break a ship with the Foundry Brick 22%
- Outside the Box Complete an Assassinate mission without entering the ship 17%
- They'll Live Knock a Capture target through a window 17%
- Unauthorised Visitation Use a second Visitor before the first returns you 16%
- Glorious I Complete a Glory I mission 15%
- Self Help Rescue one of your own characters 15%
- Heirloom Find an item that belonged to a Steam friend's character 14%
- One Careful Owner Complete a Hijack mission in a Warzone 13%
- Well Done Knock yourself out with a wrench you threw 12%
- A Good Day Finish all three missions in a Daily Challenge 12%
- End Game Talk to Fiasco after liberating every Stronghold 12%
- Glorious II Complete a Glory II mission 10%
- The Fiasco Reckoning Completely eliminate a faction from the galaxy 9.6%
- Rerouted Hack a telepad to glitch someone into space 8.3%
- Glorious III Complete a Glory III mission 7.7%
- Blacklisted Complete your personal mission with the Blacklisted trait 7.7%
- Weak Complete your personal mission with the Weak trait 7.6%
- Coming Through Rescue a friend's character 7.4%
- Glitch Sickness Complete your personal mission with the Glitch Sickness trait 7.1%
- Shaky Complete your personal mission with the Shaky trait 7.1%
- Proud Complete your personal mission with the Proud trait 6.6%
- Technophobe Complete your personal mission with the Technophobe trait 6.2%
- Glorious IV Complete a Glory IV mission 6.1%
- Dying Complete your personal mission with the Dying trait 5.6%
- Frail Complete your personal mission with the Frail trait 5.5%
- Bloodless Vow Complete your personal mission with the Bloodless Vow intact 5.2%
- Glorious V Complete a Glory V mission 4.6%
- A Perfect Day Finish all three missions in a Daily Challenge with no penalties or purchases 4.4%
- Ghost Vow Complete your personal mission with the Ghost Vow intact 4.0%
- Pacifist Vow Complete your personal mission with the Pacifist Vow intact 4.0%
- Week Streak Play the Daily Challenge every day for 7 consecutive days 2.1%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-19.