Widget Inc.

When it gets good

Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.

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Based on all 786 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 298 reviews: 17.4h for positive, 14h 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 (97.4% 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 (102)

• Basics of Crafting Craft 10 Basic Widgets 100%
• Fledgling Factory Build 10 Frames 98%
• Cradle of Technology Reach Tech Tier 2 98%
• Placement Initiate Unlock a placement bonus on 10 frames 91%
• Getting The Hang Of It Craft 10,000 Basic Widgets 90%
• Electronic Age Reach Tech Tier 4 85%
• Elbow Grease Craft 1,000 items by hand 82%
• Manufactory Build 100 Frames 78%
• True Potential Unlock all upgrades on a frame 76%
• Hoarder Build 10 Warehouses 74%
• Silicon Revolution Reach Tech Tier 6 69%
• Efficiency Expert Unlock a placement bonus on 250 frames 59%
• Quantum Era Reach Tech Tier 8 55%
• Unrivaled Potential Unlock all upgrades on 200 frames 48%
• Repurposed Build on every single tile of a City 47%
• ERROR: BUFFER OVERFLOW Find the Glitched frame 47%
• Terawatt Produce 1000 power per second 46%
• Head In The Cloud Complete 10 Cloud Widget upload sequences in a row 45%
• Industrial Sprawl Build 1000 Frames 41%
• Age of Ascension Reach Tech Tier 10 41%
• It Goes To 12 Reach Tech Tier 12 33%
• Lakefront Property Build on every tile surrounding a lake 32%
• Beginning of the End Craft 10 Omega Widgets 32%
• Slowly Making Progress Craft 10 million Basic Widgets 32%
• The Sky Is The Limit Build the Launch Facility 30%
• Superultrabuttonclicker Click the Create Widget button at considerable speed 29%
• Per Aspera Craft 10,000 Omega Widgets 28%
• Legend of Optimization Unlock a placement bonus on 1500 frames 27%
• Ad Astra Launch a Rocket 26%
• Planetary Storage Solutions Build 100 Warehouses 25%
• Scale Up Unlock the Prestige multiplier 25%
• Ascension Ascend to the heavens 24%
• Boundless Potential Unlock all upgrades on 2000 frames 24%
• Techno-Savant Unlock the entire Tech Tree 23%
• Brute Force Computing Craft 5,000,000 Circuit Boards 22%
• Don't Open Dead Inside Fill up your storage with Human Remains 21%
• Forge World Build 2500 Frames 21%
• Glitch Juggler Spend 100 Glitched Widgets on abilities 19%
• Parallel Processing Craft 5,000,000 Microprocessors 17%
• Basic Widget Expertise Craft 10,000 Basic Widgets by hand 16%
• Maximum Exploitation Unlock and utilize all Placement upgrades 16%
• Datacenter Supplier Craft 5,000,000 Nanoprocessors 14%
• Master Duplicator Copy 100 frames at once 13%
• All-Nighter Don't touch your mouse or keyboard for 8 hours 12%
• Math No Good Fail 10 Computational Widget calculations in a row 12%
• Forgotten Past Collect an Artifact 11%
• Dabbler Reach Prestige 5 11%
• Scaling Up Production Craft 100 million Basic Widgets 11%
• Archiving the Past Collect 50 unique Artifacts 9.7%
• Glitch Master Spend 10,000 Glitched Widgets on abilities 8.8%
• Photographic Memory Complete the Sentient Widget memory minigame with no more than 4 mistakes 8.3%
• Glowing Green And Purple Produce 50,000 power per second 8.2%
• Widgets In Space Launch 10 rockets in a single career 8.1%
• Dignified Disposal Finish the game without researching Incinerators 7.9%
• Ooh, Found Something! Open a Vault 7.8%
• Feedback Loop Target the Glitched Frame with any ability 7.7%
• Destabilized Reality Interact with a Glitch Spark 7.5%
• Looks Fine To Me Fail at Picoprocessor quality control 10 times in a row 7.2%
• Ludicrous Speed Launch a rocket in less than 16 hours (Prestige 0) 6.8%
• Optimized Supply Lines Build 100 Logistics Hubs 6.7%
• I Know What I'm Doing Overcharge a Nuclear Power Plant 6.7%
• What Does This Button Do? Find all 12 secret buttons 6.4%
• Mastering the Past Collect 100 unique Artifacts 6.3%
• Humanitarian Finish the game without Indentured Servitude 6.2%
• Hyperfocused Logistics Surround a frame with 8 Logistics Hubs 5.7%
• Subatomic Scale Craft 5,000,000 Picoprocessors 5.6%
• Glorious Widget Revolution Craft 1,000,000 Omega Widgets 5.6%
• Prestigious Reach Prestige 25 5.1%
• Rest In Peace Build 100 Graveyards 4.8%
• Treasure Hunter Open 10 Vaults 4.8%
• Prestigious Prodigy Unlock 10 different Prestige nodes 4.6%
• Endgame Craft one billion Basic Widgets 4.4%
• Grand Master Engineer Craft 1,000,000 items by hand 4.0%
• Mazerunner Complete a Maze Vault without resetting the puzzle 3.2%
• Fraying Reality Use Glitch Sparks to reset entropy 5 times 3.1%
• Rocket Pack Launch 30 rockets in a single career 2.6%
• Distinguished Service Reach Prestige 50 2.5%
• Head Start Reach Tier 2 in less than 18 minutes (Prestige 0) 2.4%
• Overachiever Achieve a 2500% Speed multiplier on any frame 2.3%
• Unblemished Relic Collect a Pristine Artifact 2.1%
• Master Safecracker Open 50 Vaults 1.8%
• Scientific Impossibility Use Glitch Sparks to reset entropy 20 times 1.5%
• Ancient Legacy Reach Prestige 100 1.5%
• Unfathomable Speed Launch a rocket in less than 12 hours (Prestige 0) 1.3%
• Zen Master Have the Absent Minded ability active for 8 hours consecutively 1.2%
• Stellar Distribution Launch 60 rockets in a single career 1.2%
• Grapeshot Have 20 stacks of the Storm Scale ability active at once 0.9%
• Hackerman Deal at least 50% damage to a Vault using a single Hacker 0.9%
• Transcendence Ascend 10 times in a single career 0.8%
• Prestigious Master Unlock 32 different Prestige nodes 0.7%
• Untouched Remnants Collect 10 unique Pristine Artifacts 0.7%
• I've Been Here Before Reach Tier 12 within one hour after Prestiging 0.7%
• I'm Going To Try Science Donate 100 duplicate artifacts to science 0.6%
• Scientific Mind Donate 10,000 duplicate artifacts to science 0.6%
• Value Beyond Estimation Collect an Exotic Pristine Artifact 0.6%
• Strip-mine Archeology Collect 50 unique Pristine Artifacts 0.4%
• I Hope The Roof Retracts Build a Launch Facility inside a Cave 0.3%
• Beyond the Limit Invest 6 points in any Infinite Prestige upgrade 0.3%
• Doctorate in Artifactology Donate 1,000,000 duplicate artifacts to science 0.2%
• Interstellar Cooperation Ascend with 50 launch facilities in your Interplanetary Cosmodrome 0.2%
• League of Planets Ascend with 250 launch facilities in your Interplanetary Cosmodrome 0.1%
• Lord of the Void Reach Tier 12 while playing in a Void biome 0.1%