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Avorion
Give it 7 hours
Gets good by 7h then rated almost like by veterans
Fully opens up by 10h rated like by long-time players
Reach the ending 11% of players who started
Started playing 58% of owners
Steam reviews 90% positive of 14,627
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (53%); after 20h it's 1 in 14 (7%).
- Fully opens up by hour 10.
- The opening is criticised more than in 81% of games we track.
- 11% of players who start reach the ending.
- Most players drop off before “Scourge of the Scourge” (Destroy Boss Swoks): only 53% of starters get there.
- Only 58% 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 14,657 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 295 reviews: 125.4h for positive, 47.3h 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 (58% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Scourge of the Scourge Destroy Boss Swoks. Most players quit here 53% −47
- DAU - Deadliest Assumable User Destroy the AI. 39% −14
- Into the Unknown Overcome the barrier to the central regions of the galaxy. 26% −13
- Against all Odds Beat the Four. 25% −1
- Saviour Beat the Xsotan wormhole guardian. 11% −14
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (68)
story milestone ending side
- Student Finish the Tutorial. 100%
- Self Defense Destroy 5 pirate ships. 93%
- Fighter Destroy 10 armed ships of normal AI factions or players. 79%
- Traveler Travel a distance of 500 sectors. 76%
- Shortcut Find and fly through a wormhole. 76%
- Millionaire Own 1.000.000 credits. 74%
- BRRRAAAAAWWRRMMRMRMM Equip a ship with shields. 73%
- Barrel Roll Do a barrel roll. 72%
- Miner Mine and collect 100.000 resources. 71%
- Hyperspace Use your hyperspace engine to jump into 100 sectors. 71%
- First Encounters Destroy 5 Xsotan ships. 68%
- Rapid Deconstruction Destroy a medium sized ship in under a second. 64%
- Slower than Light Fly 10.000 kilometers with your sublight engine. 64%
- Explorer Discover 200 sectors. 62%
- Professional Destroy 100 pirate ships. 60%
- Warrior Destroy 100 armed ships of normal AI factions or players. 58%
- Scourge of the Scourge Destroy Boss Swoks. 53%
- Criminal Destroy or rob a civil ship. 51%
- Interstellar Travel a distance of 5000 sectors. 45%
- Listen here you little... Ask a few stupid questions. 42%
- DAU - Deadliest Assumable User Destroy the AI. 39%
- Station Builder Found a space station. 39%
- Attacker Destroy 3 enemy stations. 39%
- Head Hunter Destroy 500 pirate ships. 37%
- Dominator Destroy 500 armed ships of normal AI factions or players. 37%
- Pest Control Destroy 100 Xsotan ships. 36%
- Merchant Buy or sell 10.000 goods. 35%
- It's over 9000! Own a ship with a firepower of over 9000 omicron. 33%
- Safe Travels Why take a risk? Travel through 100 gates. 31%
- Cartographer Discover 1000 sectors. 28%
- Historian Get a teleporter key from the Haati. 27%
- Rocket Scientist Use your hyperspace engine to jump into 1000 sectors. 27%
- Into the Unknown Overcome the barrier to the central regions of the galaxy. 26%
- Bargain Buy a teleporter key from a travelling merchant. 25%
- Not this time! Beat the Smuggler. 25%
- Against all Odds Beat the Four. 25%
- Instant Deconstruction Destroy a medium sized ship with a single shot. 25%
- Personal Crusade Destroy 1000 pirate ships. 24%
- Flagship Captain Build a fully functional flagship. 23%
- The Price of Progress Destroy the mobile energy lab. 21%
- Shady Endeavours Meet Izzy for the first time. 20%
- Scientist Research a Xsotan teleporter key. 19%
- Hacker Hack a container. 18%
- Center of the Galaxy Fly to the very center of the galaxy. 16%
- Xsoterminator Destroy 500 Xsotan ships. 15%
- Avorion! Mine Avorion for the first time. 15%
- Conqueror Destroy 15 enemy stations. 15%
- Billionaire Own 1.000.000.000 credits. 14%
- Ludicrous Speed Go a speed that no man has ever gone before. 12%
- Saviour Beat the Xsotan wormhole guardian. 11%
- Into The Rift Enter a rift for the first time. 9.7%
- Pirate Destroy or rob 20 civil ships. 9.5%
- Xsotophobe Destroy 1000 Xsotan ships. 8.4%
- Lone Saviour Beat the Xsotan wormhole guardian without help from allies. 6.0%
- Invader Destroy 50 enemy stations. 4.8%
- Child at Heart Do a barrel roll with your fully functional battleship. 4.3%
- For the People Save all the Scientists. 4.3%
- Raider Destroy or rob 100 civil ships. 2.4%
- Coop Rifter Finish a rift mission with a friend. 2.2%
- The Trusted Godchild Finish the Family story line. 2.2%
- Overstaying Your Welcome Stay in a rift for 15 minutes after the swarm has arrived. 2.1%
- The Brother in Arms Finish the Cavaliers story line. 1.7%
- The Hero of the Revolution Finish the Commune story line. 1.6%
- Master Tactician Beat the Xsotan wormhole guardian without damage from you or your crafts. 1.2%
- Hero of the Rifts Finish the Into The Rift Storyline. 0.9%
- To The Bottom Of The Rift Finish a Rift Mission at a Rift Depth of 75. 0.9%
- Gang Up Enter a rift with 5 or more ships. 0.5%
- Rift Mission: Impossible Finish a Rift Mission at a Rift Depth of 75 with a single ship that has a mass of 600kT or less. 0.3%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-18.