Rise to Ruins
Give it 15 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 3 reviews are negative (34%); after 20h it's 1 in 12 (8%).
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- Only 16% 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 7,785 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 300 reviews: 67h for positive, 21.4h 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 (16.4% 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 (113)
story milestone ending side
- You Already Lost Build your first Camp. 100%
- Deforestation Harvest 256 wood from trees. 73%
- Build All The Things! Build 16 of buildings, except walls. 65%
- Quarry Harvest 256 rock from mountains. 60%
- The Cost of Progress Upgrade 16 buildings. 47%
- Foraging Harvest 256 fruits, vegetables or mushrooms. 45%
- Immigrant Song Have 16 nomads join the village. 45%
- Survive! Survive 8 days in any region! 43%
- Hoarder Generate 32 trash from decaying resources. 42%
- Kyle Powered! Harvest 256 crystals from crystal patches. 41%
- Chill Enter a full moon. 40%
- Industry Refine 128 logs or rocks into boards or cut stone. 38%
- It's Huntin' Season Successfully capture 16 animals. 36%
- Burned Alive Lose a villager due to fire damage. 31%
- Seriously? Survive 8 Disasters. 29%
- Eggcellent Have Cluckers lay 64 eggs. 29%
- Rise to Riches Create 3,072 coins. 28%
- Tower Defense Build 12 Towers. 26%
- The Moon Kill 16 enemies during a full moon. 26%
- Buried Treasure Uncover 12 keys or lootboxes from magic circles. 25%
- Well, Well, Well... Build 3 wells. 25%
- Factory Farming Slaughter 64 animals in the kitchen. 24%
- Literal Dumpster Fire Burn 192 trash in a Trash Burner. 24%
- Cluck Nuggets Create 42 Cooked Meat. 23%
- Weakest Links Have 24 villagers die for any reason. 23%
- Who Turned Off The Sun? Enter an eclipse. 22%
- Catch It All Gather 2,048 water with Rain Catchers. 21%
- Stop Poking Me! Force a lootbox to move 12 times. 21%
- God King Upgrade the camp to completed castle. 21%
- Poor Weaponry Kill a skeleton with piercing damage. 21%
- DOOOOOOOOOMED Doom a world. 20%
- Touch Grass Touch grass with your hand 16 times. 20%
- Nestled Pure Life Water Generate 2,048 water with Water Purifiers. 20%
- Mana Millionaire Collect 50,000 essence. 18%
- Lord of The Arrows Have villagers equip a bow 32 times. 18%
- Power Overwhelming Gather or generate a total of 4,096 energy in the village over time. 18%
- Electronic Sharks Open 8 Lootboxes. 17%
- Take That! Drown a Fire Elemental. 17%
- Duggar Give birth to 19 children. 16%
- God's Village Upgrade 12 houses to High Quality. 16%
- It Never Stops! Kill 16 Drones. 16%
- The Red Sun Rises Enter a bloodmoon. 16%
- The Doggo House Build 6 Doggo Houses. 15%
- Tyrant Sacrifice a villager with a Cullis Gate. 15%
- Catjeet Has Wares Buy or sell 256 resources to Catjeet Provisioners. 14%
- Diggy Diggy Hole Dig out 192 tiles. 14%
- Helpful Doggos Have Doggos store 64 resources. 14%
- Sardines Upgrade 6 houses to High Occupancy. 14%
- Angst Have 24 children grow up. 13%
- The Grind Harvest 1,024 of any resources from anywhere. 13%
- 28 Seconds Later Have 5 villagers or livestock turn into a zombie. 13%
- Well Protected Create 64 armor of any type at the Armorsmithy. 13%
- Explosive Side Effects 'Accidentally' cause a Cullis Gate explosion. 12%
- Tools For All Create 64 tools of any type at the Toolsmithy. 12%
- The Longest Journey Send 16 Migrants to other regions. 12%
- First World Problems Upgrade 6 houses to Reinforced High Quality Houses. 11%
- Hospice Care Have 24 villagers die from old age. 11%
- Retrofit Max Upgrade 12 Towers. 10%
- A Worthy Sacrifice Throw a nephalim into a Cullis Gate. 8.5%
- God Dammit... Lose a region completely. 8.5%
- Golems Will Take Our Jobs Summon 24 Labor Golems. 8.5%
- Porter Deliver 128 resources to any region. 8.5%
- Strays Have 16 Catjeet Nomads join the village. 8.5%
- Take It Back! Convert 256 tiles of corruption. 8.5%
- What Is My Purpose? Create 8 Cube-E golems. 8.5%
- Fight The Corruption Destroy 6 Corrupted Buildings. 7.9%
- Let It Snow Arrows Build 4 Ice Ballista. 7.9%
- Ragnarok Have or cause an earthquake during a blood moon. 7.9%
- The Big Doggo House Upgrade 6 Doggo Houses to Established. 7.9%
- What's That Smell? Have 6 trashy slime spawn. 7.9%
- Animal Rights Violations Have 12 Doggos die for any reason. 7.3%
- Attaboy! Have any Doggo grab a key and open a loot box on their own. 7.3%
- Dude, WTH Man?! Drop a villager in a dangerous area. 7.3%
- Hands off me! Grab 128 villagers. 7.3%
- Prodigious Planner Build 12 storage buildings of any kind. 7.3%
- Whale Buy 16 Suspicious Keys from Catjeet Provisioners. 7.3%
- Acropolis Upgrade 6 houses to Reinforced High Occupancy Houses. 6.7%
- Holy Defense Place 12 God Towers. 6.7%
- I've Got Prime! Receive 128 resources from any region. 6.7%
- Rosebud Generate 256 flowers from magic and energy usage. 6.7%
- Wild Growth Make 128 tiles of resources grow. 6.7%
- All Roads Lead To Home Build 128 Cut Stone Roads. 6.1%
- Baptized Golemancer Summon 16 Holy Golems. 6.1%
- Deified Farmer Grow 128 patches of holy potatoes. 6.1%
- Praise Be Unto Thee Have occulists complete 512 pray actions. 6.1%
- Whoops, sorry! Drop a villager because you ran out of mana. 6.1%
- Eco Terrorist Dissolve 128 tiles. 5.5%
- I Want My Key Back!! Get trash from a Loot Box. 5.5%
- I'm Done Playing With You... Dispel a summoned building or golem 24 times. 5.5%
- Crumbling Defenses Have 24 walls destroyed. 4.9%
- Light The Way! Cast Illuminate at night 8 times. 4.9%
- Migrant Workers Hire 12 Catjeet Laborers. 4.9%
- Never gonna give you up... Recall an injured villager while they are fleeing. 4.9%
- Obvious in Hindsight Have a lightning rod misdirect your lightning bolt spell. 4.9%
- The Dust Must Flow! Sell at total of 24 god dust to Catjeet Provisioners. 4.9%
- Charming Deity Charm 24 Monsters. 4.3%
- I Like Big Buttresses Build 128 curtain walls. 4.3%
- Popcorn Dissolve 128 bodies with the dissolve spell. 4.3%
- The Soul Trade Sell a filled Eerie Vassel. 4.3%
- Water Jousting Kill 8 monsters in the water. 4.3%
- God of Love and Thunder Bless 24 women. 3.7%
- Impatient Cast recall on 32 nomads. 3.7%
- OMG Put aside all sense of decency, and toss a child into a Cullis Gate. 3.7%
- War Crimes Carelessly toss a Doofy Doggo into a Cullis Gate. 3.7%
- Fine, I'll Do It Myself! Drop 64 resources into buildings with the grab spell. 3.0%
- Ghost Town Store 16 ghosts in eerie vessels. 3.0%
- God or Magician Have 512 villagers react to your actions. 3.0%
- Grandmaster Sparkles Kill a villager with a lightning bolt. 3.0%
- Midgar Drop a comet on your camp or castle. 3.0%
- Rise From The Grave Resurrect 16 Villagers. 3.0%
- Bad Aim Accidentally hit a villager with a meteor or comet. 2.4%
- Catjeetastrophic Have 6 Catjeet die for any reason. 2.4%
- Was I a Good Boy? Resurrect 4 Doggos. 1.8%