The Adventure Pals
Hooks you almost right away
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 6 reviews are negative (17%); after 7h it's 1 in 14 (7%).
- The opening is criticised less than in 79% of games we track.
- 73% 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 2,015 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 297 reviews: 10.3h for positive, 10.1h 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 (72.9% 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 (31)
- First Pal Get your first pal 100%
- Bake off Collect first cupcake 93%
- Swordsman Vanquish 10 enemies 92%
- Next Level Level up your abilities for the first time 87%
- Mission Accomplished Complete your first objective 78%
- Baking me crazy Use the Cupcake Converter 71%
- Cake Boss Collect 10 cupcakes 67%
- Forging ahead Use a Weapon Mod 61%
- Tongue out of cheek giraffe-copter for 5 minutes in total 54%
- Bark worse than bite Defeat treefist 47%
- On the beach Make it to second island 46%
- Rejuvenation Release 50 old people from hotdogs 40%
- Headache kill 100 enemies by jumping on their heads 37%
- Nine Lives You've used nine lives but don't give up 34%
- Traumatised Beat an arena 33%
- Bring a Friend start a co-op game 33%
- Bunny Business Kill an enemy that's been converted to a bunny 30%
- Yolks on you Defeat Breakfast Buccaneer 29%
- One in a melon Defeat Veggiesaur 22%
- Stick to it Find 50% of the stickers 20%
- Catch 'em all Fully Level Up 20%
- Feeling crabby Defeat Crab mech 17%
- Nice to meat you Defeat Hot Dog Boss 16%
- Reunited Finish the Game 16%
- Extinction Kill 20 yaks on world map 15%
- Swordplay Defeat all the arenas 13%
- Obesity Unlock all costumes 9.6%
- Speed Merchant complete a stage in less than 3 minutes 9.1%
- Good brief! Give the whale the old mans underwear 8.8%
- Stuck to it Fill up your sticker book 8.2%
- Have my babies Get all achievements 5.3%