AdventureCasualIndieEarly Access
CHKN
Give it 2 hours
Gets good by 2h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 3h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 70% of owners
Steam reviews 80% positive of 1,767
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 3 reviews are negative (35%); after 5h it's 1 in 6 (18%).
- Fully opens up by hour 3.
- Only 70% 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 1,777 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 300 reviews: 5.4h for positive, 2.5h 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 (69.5% 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 (21)
- It's Alive! Created a creature 100%
- Fed yourself! You know how to eat. 94%
- Lumberjack Cut down a tree 91%
- Breakfast Time! Broke an egg 87%
- NOM NOMS Fed a creature 87%
- Cowboy Rode a creature 79%
- Dinner Time Cooked some food 50%
- Commander Used a whistle 48%
- Best Buds Tamed a creature 43%
- Let there be light Crafted a torch 34%
- Level Up! Increase the Life Shaper's Build Limit 34%
- Caveman Crafted a tool 29%
- Firestarter Set Something on Fire 24%
- Hunter 10 Creatures Killed 18%
- The Creature Whisperer 10 Creatures Tamed 14%
- Zzzzz Slept in bed 14%
- Boulder Buster 10 Rocks Broken 12%
- Creator 10 Creatures Created 11%
- Deforestation 50 Trees Cut Down 8.6%
- Creature Breeder 3 Creatures Bred 4.5%
- Sniper Kill 10 Creatures with a Slingshot 2.9%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-20.