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Interstellar Rift
The first hour is a test
Gets good by 1h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 20h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 31% of owners
Steam reviews 68% positive of 1,669
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (62%); after 20h it's 1 in 4 (25%).
- Fully opens up by hour 20.
- The opening is criticised more than in 91% of games we track.
- Only 31% 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 1,674 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 295 reviews: 66.3h for positive, 19.7h 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 (31.3% 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 (42)
- The Student Complete the first tutorial 100%
- 3310 A.D. Start a new single-player game 97%
- New construction options Extract resources from an asteroid 79%
- That new ship smell Purchase a ship 74%
- It's dangerous to go alone Join a server 67%
- A drop in the ocean Kill a Skrill Grunt 54%
- The Master Complete the last tutorial 49%
- It's the name of the game Open an Interstellar Rift 31%
- MEDIC! Consume a health pack 29%
- HSC Recruit Achieve 1000 Reputation with Hurles Co. 25%
- Onward and Upward! Pay off your debt 21%
- S3 Recruit Achieve 1000 Reputation with Sentinel Security Systems 14%
- Too far to walk Use a local teleporter 11%
- Not the most expensive machine in the hospital Activate the machine that goes ping 10%
- Who hunts the hunters? Kill a Skrill Hunter 9.6%
- HSC Officer Achieve 2000 Reputation with Hurles Co. 8.3%
- GT Sales Assistant Achieve 1000 Reputation with Galactic Trade 8.0%
- Drifter Recruit Achieve 1000 Reputation with the Drifters 5.8%
- S3 Officer Achieve 2000 Reputation with Sentinel Security Systems 5.4%
- HSC Manager Achieve 3000 Reputation with Hurles Co. 5.1%
- Power of the Atom Load a fuel cell in the Nuclear Reactor 5.1%
- Bombs away Kill a Skrill Bomber 4.5%
- About as tough as it looks Kill a Skrill Disruptor 3.5%
- Ship in a box Store a ship in a personal ship storage 3.5%
- Vaultron Clerk Achieve 1000 Reputation with Vaultron 3.5%
- GT Sales Manager Achieve 2000 Reputation with Galactic Trade 3.2%
- HydroPEX Fuel Trader Achieve 1000 Reputation with HydroPEX 3.2%
- S3 General Achieve 3000 Reputation with Sentinel Security Systems 3.2%
- Shields up! Activate the station shield 2.6%
- LogiCorp Assistant Achieve 1000 Reputation with LogiCorp 2.6%
- Drifter Goon Achieve 2000 Reputation with the Drifters 2.2%
- GT Executive Achieve 3000 Reputation with Galactic Trade 2.2%
- Not great, actually terrible... Lose your life to radiation damage 1.9%
- Vaultron Branch Manager Achieve 2000 Reputation with Vaultron 1.9%
- Drifter Pirate Achieve 3000 Reputation with the Drifters 1.6%
- HydroPEX Xanthium Executive Achieve 2000 Reputation with HydroPEX 1.3%
- LogiCorp Researcher Achieve 2000 Reputation with LogiCorp 1.3%
- Vaultron Executive Achieve 3000 Reputation with Vaultron 1.3%
- HydroPEX Business Magnate Achieve 3000 Reputation with HydroPEX 1.0%
- LogiCorp Director Achieve 3000 Reputation with LogiCorp 1.0%
- Advanced cartographics Complete the processing of a Star Map 0.6%
- Cutting the head off the hive mind Kill the Skrill Queen 0.6%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-20.