IndieSimulationStrategy
Particle Fleet: Emergence
Give it 10 hours
Gets good by 10h then rated almost like by veterans
Fully opens up by 20h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 94% of owners
Steam reviews 93% positive of 1,286
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 3 reviews are negative (33%); after 20h it's 1 in 50 (2%).
- Fully opens up by hour 20.
- Few early reviews, so this is a rough estimate.
- 94% 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 1,291 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 296 reviews: 22.1h for positive, 7.9h 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 (93.5% 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 (20)
- Naivety Completed Story Mission 1 100%
- Indelible Completed Story Mission 2 93%
- Sacrifice Completed Story Prologue 93%
- Unwise Completed Story Mission 3 88%
- Insanity Completed Story Mission 4 85%
- Evidence Completed Story Mission 5 80%
- Stretch Completed Story Mission 6 76%
- Brute Completed Story Mission 7 73%
- Potential Completed Story Mission 8 69%
- Emergent Completed Story Mission 9 65%
- Ties Completed Story Mission 10 62%
- Secrets Completed Story Mission 11 60%
- Doppelgangers Completed Story Mission 12 58%
- Intent Completed Story Mission 13 56%
- The 145th Completed Story Mission 14 55%
- Origin Completed Story Mission 15 51%
- Codex Completed Story Codex 50%
- Duty Completed Story Mission 16 47%
- Epilogue Completed Story Epilogue 45%
- CEO Completed All Story Missions 43%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-20.