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EDGE
Hooks you almost right away
Gets good by 3h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 4h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 44% of owners
Steam reviews 92% positive of 2,260
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 9 reviews are negative (11%); after 4h it's 1 in 45 (2%).
- Fully opens up by hour 4.
- The opening is criticised less than in 89% of games we track.
- Only 44% 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 2,275 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 291 reviews: 3.1h for positive, 0.8h 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 (44% 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 (47)
- Millimeter Complete 12 normal levels 100%
- Second Get 10 seconds of EDGE time 72%
- Dropoff Get dropped off by a platform and continue hanging on the wall 70%
- Pickup Get picked up by a platform while hanging on an edge 57%
- Long Fall Fall more than 16 meters and survive 54%
- Centimeter Complete 24 normal levels 52%
- Compact Get crushed 10 times 48%
- Decimeter Complete 36 normal levels 29%
- Minute Get 30 seconds of EDGE time 28%
- Perfect landing Fall directly on the exit square in "star castle" 24%
- Roundtrip Get picked up by a platform and then dropped off by a platform 21%
- Snowblind Find the six hidden switches in the snow-covered levels in December 21%
- Edgaholic Finish a level by getting EDGE time on every edge climbed 20%
- Meter Complete 45 normal levels 20%
- Hour Get 60 seconds of EDGE time 17%
- Turnstile jumper Evade the subway fare 15%
- Pinhole Finish a level in mini form 14%
- Microsecond Get 10 seconds of EDGE time as a mini cube 13%
- Jumper Jump on top of a car in "peripherique" 13%
- Hectometer Complete all extended levels 12%
- Quick response Find the QR code 11%
- Colorblind Finish a level without collecting any prisms 11%
- Daredevil Get more than 0.5 seconds of EDGE time on the active side of a bumper 11%
- Shuffled Get shuffled in "magic" 11%
- Kilometer Complete all normal levels 11%
- Rainbow Collect all prisms in the normal levels 10%
- Hitchhike Get 30 seconds of EDGE time on a moving platform 10%
- Decameter Complete all bonus levels 10%
- Leap of faith Take a leap of faith 10%
- Stubborn Press the first nine switches in "don't click!" and finish the level 10%
- Subway Ride the complete subway track 9.5%
- Mythical bird Summon the mythical bird in "mystic" 9.3%
- Flag Climb the flag in "highest flag" 8.9%
- Balance Balance on the floor for at least 5 seconds 8.6%
- Hard wired Don't skip any of the moving wires in "wire" 8.6%
- Chicken Find Toki Tori 8.2%
- Backpack Get at least 8 seconds of EDGE time on the human figure in "edge time" 8.0%
- Invader Get on top of an invader 8.0%
- Double Rainbow Collect all prisms in the game 7.7%
- Tumbling travels Grab the prism after the wall sequence in "higher" as mini cube 7.5%
- An enemy of my enemy Cross the block-enemy section in "cube invaders" without activating any of the three bridges 7.3%
- Minimalist Use only one of the nine switches at the end of "click" 7.3%
- Monkey Unleash the nibbling totem monkey head in "babylonian" 7.3%
- Hitchup Escape the clutch of the elevator in "star dust" and get across 7.0%
- Nailed it Get to the exit of "hammer" fast 7.0%
- A-list Get an A rank on all normal levels 6.1%
- Stardom Get an S+ rank on all normal levels 5.9%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-19.