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The Solus Project
Give it 7 hours
Gets good by 7h then rated almost like by veterans
Fully opens up by 15h rated like by long-time players
Reach the ending 10% of players who started
Started playing 91% of owners
Steam reviews 80% positive of 2,631
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (56%); after 15h it's 1 in 18 (6%).
- Fully opens up by hour 15.
- The opening is criticised more than in 85% of games we track.
- 10% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “Beginner's Luck” (Complete your survival training) and “The Hatch” (Find the ladder down): from 71% to 38% of starters.
- 90% 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 2,633 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 18.3h for positive, 6.2h 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 (90.5% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- First Entry Set foot on the planet 100%
- Beginner's Luck Complete your survival training 71% −29
- The Hatch Find the ladder down Most players quit here 38% −33
- E.T. Phone Home Start the Communication Tower 28% −10
- Illuminated Escape Reach the island of Flashpoint 17% −12
- Thor Wannabe Complete Flashpoint 13% −3
- Acid Trip Return to the first caves after Flashpoint 14%
- Windy Escape Reach the island of Highpoint 11% −2
- Massive Fan Complete Highpoint 11%
- Sauna Pretender Reach the island of Hotspot 11%
- Alien Living Room Explorer Find the energy source 10%
- Man I sure hope they ain't all dead Phone home 10%
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (43)
story milestone ending side
- First Entry Set foot on the planet 100%
- Beginner's Luck Complete your survival training 71%
- My very first secret Collect your first secret 68%
- The Hatch Find the ladder down 38%
- Would not even wait to check in the hotel Explore the backside of the first island 38%
- Twister Survive a tornado 37%
- Dummy Extinguish a torch in water 35%
- E.T. Phone Home Start the Communication Tower 28%
- I Made You A Mixtape Find and pick up the music player 23%
- Darkest Danger Overcome the dark encounter 19%
- Horror Dolls Have seen the dolls that cannot be unseen 18%
- Shish Kebab Get hit by a spike plant 18%
- Illuminated Escape Reach the island of Flashpoint 17%
- Acid Trip Return to the first caves after Flashpoint 14%
- Thor Wannabe Complete Flashpoint 13%
- Book Worm Complete the library 12%
- Windy Escape Reach the island of Highpoint 11%
- Massive Fan Complete Highpoint 11%
- Ridiculously Courageous Enter the Ice Path 11%
- Yeti Hunt Enter the massive ice cavern 11%
- Sauna Pretender Reach the island of Hotspot 11%
- Tomb Raider Open 50 boxes 10%
- No sane person would do this Jump into the Hotspot crater 10%
- Alien Living Room Explorer Find the energy source 10%
- Long Distance Swimmer Swim far off shore 10%
- This swimming pool is awful Dip your head in acid water 10%
- Man I sure hope they ain't all dead Phone home 9.7%
- The Messiah Return to the Crossroad Island with an energy source 8.5%
- Hamster Collect 50 secrets 8.1%
- Hoarder Collect 75 secrets 3.8%
- Teleportation Sickness Teleport 10 times in 30 seconds 3.5%
- Alcoholic Drink champagne 3 times 3.1%
- MILSON!!!!!!1111 Find Milson 2.9%
- Oh, I need this? Hasn't picked up PDA until 5 minutes has passed 2.4%
- Skydiver Fall for at least 5 seconds to your death 1.8%
- Fire in the hole! Blow up a torch in H2S without getting killed 1.5%
- Odin's son Get hit by lightning while holding a hammer 1.5%
- God Almighty Collect all secrets 1.4%
- Alien Cousine Conniseur Only eat alien food 10 times in a row 1.2%
- Junk in the Trunk Carry 10 pieces of Tower Pieces in your inventory 1.2%
- Geologist Have 16 rocks in inventory 1.0%
- Hulk, Smash! Show some love to rocks - smash 20 rocks together 1.0%
- Fable Hoarder Read all stories 0.6%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-19.