The Headliners
Give it 2 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 3 reviews are negative (34%); after 4h it's 1 in 13 (7%).
- Fully opens up by hour 3.
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- Only 66% 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 10,750 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 294 reviews: 6.5h for positive, 3.7h 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 (65.6% 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 (20)
story milestone ending side
- BREAKING NEWS Publish 1 headline 100%
- CLOSE ENCOUNTERS Capture 4 aliens in a single photo 79%
- BRONZE-AWARD SHOT Take a picture worth more than 1,000 points 71%
- GREAT SESSION Earn more than 10,000 points in one session 65%
- WORTHY TRAGEDY Take a picture of a friend getting killed 61%
- WAR CORRESPONDENT Take a picture of a flying rocket 55%
- SILVER-AWARD SHOT Take a picture worth more than 1,500 points 45%
- FULL TEAM Finish a session with 4 journalists in the team 44%
- EXTRAORDINARY SESSION Earn more than 20,000 points in one session 37%
- GOLD-AWARD SHOT Take a picture worth more than 2,000 points 26%
- LEGENDARY SESSION Earn more than 30,000 points in one session 23%
- FRONT-PAGE LEGENDS Publish 12 headlines 14%
- DAVID vs. GOLIATH Take a picture of a dead huge alien 11%
- PLATINUM-AWARD SHOT Take a picture worth more than 3,000 points 6.7%
- PRESS CORPS ASSEMBLE! Finish a session with 8 journalists in the team 3.2%
- ABSOLUTE LEGENDS Publish 20 headlines 2.1%
- NOT DEAD YET Finish a session with only 1 HP left 1.5%
- EMERALD-AWARD SHOT Take a picture worth more than 4,000 points 1.4%
- PERFECT PRECISION End a game with a score that perfectly matches the objective 0.8%
- DIAMOND-AWARD SHOT Take a picture worth more than 5,000 points 0.5%