CasualIndieSimulationStrategy
Empire TV Tycoon
The first hour is a test
Gets good by 1h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 10h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 88% of owners
Steam reviews 79% positive of 902
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (60%); after 10h it's 1 in 8 (12%).
- Fully opens up by hour 10.
- The opening is criticised more than in 89% of games we track.
- Few early reviews, so this is a rough estimate.
- 88% 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 907 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 298 reviews: 15.9h for positive, 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 (87.8% 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 (43)
- Welcome to Empirewood! Program your first movie 100%
- I'm the boss! Hire a worker 95%
- TV Remote Get over 100.000 audience 94%
- Payday! Complete an Ad campaign 78%
- My First Movie! Create a movie 62%
- At your service Complete a quest 59%
- Noob with a Camera Make a movie with a rating 6 or more 48%
- Fingers crossed Present a movie to the industry awards 44%
- Miscalculated! Fail to complete and Ad Campaign 40%
- Loved Win the unconditional love of an audience group 36%
- Seven digits! Get over 1.000.000 audience 36%
- Well deserved money Sell a movie produced by you 34%
- Roscarized Win the best movie award 33%
- Rich! Get over 1.000.000 $ 32%
- Most watched! Win movie of the day with a movie produced by you 29%
- In red Fall into red numbers 29%
- Hated Be really hated by an audience group 26%
- Fresh content! Program at least 12 movies of the year 2012 or more 26%
- Only with professionals Have a lvl 5 worker 21%
- Family member Ask for a loan 20%
- Swimming in money Get over 2.500.000 $ 20%
- Live for the People! Complete a hard quest 19%
- Breaking the mold Get over 25.000.000 audience 17%
- Oh! Crap Make a movie with a rating 4 or less 16%
- Under arrest! Got caught with a pirate movie 15%
- The Seventh Art is Born Make a movie with a rating 9 or more 15%
- Pirate! Don't get caught with a pirate movie 13%
- Money isn't a problem Get over 5.000.000 $ 13%
- RePoker Win all the awards in the same night 11%
- The king of the world Get over 33.000.000 audience 11%
- Show me the money! Complete an Ad campaign worth 750.000$ reward or more 11%
- Benefits! Sell a movie produced by you for more than 100000$ 11%
- Hired! Win the game 8.3%
- To infinity... and beyond! Get over 40.000.000 audience 7.7%
- Multidisciplinary Make one movie of each genre in the same game 7.1%
- Bankrupt Lose the game because red numbers 5.4%
- Born in the 80’s Program at least 12 movies made between the year 1980 and 1989 4.0%
- Touched by the Gods Make a perfect movie (10 rating) 2.5%
- Get them all! Win the 4th different best movie award in the same game 2.4%
- Black and White Program at least 12 movies of the year 1970 or less 2.2%
- Sloth loves you Pay a visit to Sloth 1.4%
- Promising Future Win the game in expert mode 1.0%
- Red Fury Win the game in expert mode with the red channel 0.9%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-20.