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Crime Simulator: Playgrounds
Give it 2 hours
Gets good by 2h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 4h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 29% of owners
Steam reviews 72% positive of 2,185
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours almost 1 in 2 reviews are negative (43%); after 4h it's 1 in 8 (12%).
- Fully opens up by hour 4.
- Only 29% 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 2,224 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 172 reviews: 3h for positive, 1.2h 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 (29.2% 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 (18)
- Money maker Make 5000$ 100%
- Yeah, I can do that Complete 5 jobs 85%
- Apprentice Reach Rank 4 64%
- Farm Simulator Take over Abandoned Farm 56%
- Clock is ticking Complete 2 timed jobs 53%
- Optional, you say? Complete 5 optional tasks 44%
- Can it run now? Repair your car 26%
- Craftsman Craft 5 items 23%
- Survivor Survive a gang attack 13%
- Neighbour destruction Complete Oakville location 12%
- Rich Make 10 000$ 11%
- Drug dealer Harvest weed 9.9%
- Learning is winning Spend 10 attribute points 7.9%
- No longer an appretince Complete all available jobs 6.2%
- Desert town Take over the desert town 5.1%
- Wrong profession Craft 10 items 4.1%
- Speedrunner Complete the game under an hour 3.1%
- Screaming statues Find 10 screaming statues 1.0%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-19.