When does Clockwork Tales: Of Glass and Ink get good?

Hooks you almost right away. In the first 2 hours 1 in 5 reviews are negative (19%); after 4h it's 1 in 15 (7%). The opening is criticised less than in 76% of games we track.

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Clockwork Tales: Of Glass and Ink

Apr 24, 2014 Steam: Very Positive

Hooks you almost right away

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

Started playing 61% of owners

Steam reviews 92% positive of 1,162

What the data shows

In the first 2 hours 1 in 5 reviews are negative (19%); after 4h it's 1 in 15 (7%).
The opening is criticised less than in 76% of games we track.
Few early reviews, so this is a rough estimate.
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 1,174 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 296 reviews: 4.5h for positive, 3.6h 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 (60.7% 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 (19)

AMONGST BUGS Finish your first FROG puzzle 100%
FIRST OF MANY Find your first steambug 100%
HELLO, BIRDIE Get Matthew up and running 97%
THAT PAPER SMELL Read 10 pop-ups throughout the game 97%
NO SKIPPING Finish 3 puzzles without skipping 95%
TOO MANY LEGS Get rid of Barber's Myriapod 95%
GLIDING OVER ALL Get to Barber's castle 94%
MOVIE WATCHER Watched 5 cutscenes without skipping 91%
EVEN DEEPER Enter Barber’s underground laboratory 90%
MY SAVIOR Rescue Dr. Ink 87%
WORLD OWES YOU Destroy Barber’s Tremor Machine 85%
MASTER DEBUGGER Find all castle steambugs 78%
PREQUEL Finish the bonus chapter 59%
ENTOMOLOGIST Find all Hochwald steambugs 58%
PEOPLE PERSON Nothing wrong with a little jibber-jabber 55%
MARKSMAN You Eagle-Eye, you... no more than a single misclick in a HO scene. 51%
CATCH THEM ALL Find all underground steambugs 44%
THE CHALLENGE Solve all puzzles without skipping 40%
SPY MASTER Complete the game on Expert Mode 27%

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