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Dwarfs!?
Give it 7 hours
Gets good by 7h then rated almost like by veterans
Fully opens up by 10h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 27% of owners
Steam reviews 78% positive of 1,081
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours almost 1 in 2 reviews are negative (43%); after 10h it's 1 in 19 (5%).
- Fully opens up by hour 10.
- Only 27% 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 1,084 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 292 reviews: 7.9h for positive, 1.3h 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 (27.3% 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 (29)
- Diggy Kong Dig through a total of 25000 squares in Arcade Mode. 100%
- Stupid Achievement Play the Carnival minigame 96%
- War Is On Have 25 Warriors at the same time in Arcade Mode 88%
- For The Hoard Have 25000 gold coins in Arcade Mode! 78%
- Bronze Axe Score at least 500 points in the Carnival minigame 74%
- Beard for Business Dig through a total of 1000 mineral squares in Arcade Mode. 67%
- Eeeh?! Iisi Moodo?! Get a score over 500 000 in Easy Arcade Mode! 63%
- Silver Axe Score at least 1000 points in the Carnival minigame 61%
- Hip to be Square Get a score over 500 000 in Normal Arcade Mode! 59%
- Hole In One Kill a Goblin by luring him down a hole 51%
- Try Again Miss with every axe in the Carnival minigame 50%
- Sharpshooter Hit a target with every single axe in the Carnival minigame 48%
- You Perv! Hit only elves, and at least five of them, in the Carnival minigame 44%
- Gold Axe Score at least 2500 points in the Carnival minigame 41%
- In The Business Have 10 Outposts with Taverns in Arcade Mode 40%
- Pole Dancer Hit only poles with all axes in the Carnival minigame 37%
- Headshot! Hit only zombies, and at least five of them, in the Carnival minigame 35%
- Like Bunnies Have 2500 Diggers in all games total 33%
- Untimely Death Manage to die in an arcade game in less than fifteen seconds! 33%
- Not A War hammer Get a cumulative total of 40k gold 32%
- Way of the Pick Level a Digger Dwarf to Level 15! 32%
- Way of the Axe Level a Warrior Dwarf to Level 15! 31%
- Slayer of Kings You've slain 30 Bosses 30%
- Pro Arcader Survive a 60-minute Arcade Game on Normal Mode 26%
- Micro Master Use Instant Seal on 10 Water- or Lava Caves! 18%
- The Rock Get a score over 500 000 in Hard Arcade Mode! 16%
- King of the Caves Get awarded with Two Axes on every single Challenge 16%
- Cave Crasher Open 2000 Caves in Arcade Mode 15%
- The Thickest Beard Get a score over 500 000 in Tedi Hardcore Arcade Mode! 13%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-20.