Stationeers
Give it 10 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours most reviews are negative (69%); after 20h it's 1 in 20 (5%).
- Fully opens up by hour 20.
- The opening is criticised more than in 95% of games we track.
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- Only 26% 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 9,358 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 121.9h for positive, 12.1h 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 (26.3% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
This game has no story achievements, so we can't tell where players quit.
All achievements (53)
story milestone ending side
- Hurry Up Cancel an Airlock cycle 100%
- Furnace Apprentice Smelt Steel 95%
- Power Overwhelming Place a station battery 86%
- Mark Watney Plant a Potato 79%
- Tidy Place a Stacker 76%
- My Final Form Upgrade an Electronics Printer 73%
- Furnace Journeyman Smelt Invar 61%
- It's Gonna Blow Have a pipe section explode 59%
- Some High-Quality-H2O Max out hydration by drinking at max food quality 56%
- Oops Have the Furnace destroy an item 48%
- Zzzt... Burn a Cable with the Welder 43%
- Jetpack Critical Have a Jetpack run out of fuel 43%
- Some Assembly Required Write a script to an Integrated Circuit 41%
- Good Morning Wake up from being unconscious 37%
- Take a Load Off Construct a Suit Storage 35%
- A Bit Windy Have a wall or door fail from pressure 31%
- Still Mark Watney Have a Potato plant die 28%
- That'll be $3.50 Complete a trade with a Trader 27%
- You still open? Call a Trader with less than 60 seconds left on their timer 26%
- 1.21 Gigawatts Craft a Nuclear Battery 26%
- Why Is It Still Mark Watney? Survive eating only potatoes for 30 days 22%
- Furnace Master Smelt Hastelloy 19%
- Welcome Aboard Be in a multiplayer game with 4 other players 15%
- Blast Off Launch a Rocket 11%
- Cleared to Land Call in a plane based Trader 11%
- Soylent Green is... Plants! Harvest plants one thousand times 9.5%
- Soot Happens Survive an Ash storm on Vulcan in Survival 7.2%
- AIMEe Does Not Understand Power off AIMEe 6.8%
- Well that was quick Die on Vulcan before the end of the first day 6.1%
- Brutal Legend Survive for 30 days with brutal start conditions 4.9%
- Khajiit has wares if you have coin Generate ten thousand credits of revenue in trades 4.9%
- Medic! Revive another player by feeding them a Heal Pill 4.9%
- Muffin Man Microwave a Muffin 2.3%
- Stack Overflow Write to the internal stack of another device using an Integrated Circuit 1.9%
- Halt and Catch Fire Experience the HCF instruction in an integrated circuit 1.5%
- And Yet It Moves Track celestial bodies at full alignment with a telescope for ten minutes 1.1%
- Frequent Flyer Successfully launch the required number of Rockets 1.1%
- Fast & Furious Use a welder with Nitrus Oxide as the oxidizer 0.8%
- Gotta Grow Fast Max out a plant's growth speed 0.8%
- Go At Throttle Up Launch a rocket successfully into orbit with an exhaust velocity of at least six kilometers per second 0.8%
- The Spice Must Flow Mine ten thousand Cobalt Ore 0.8%
- C'mon Tars! Successfully Scan Janus from High Orbit with a Rocket 0.4%
- Did you forget something? Have a welding torch explode while the welder is in a locker 0.4%
- Europa Universalis Visit all of the major points of interest on Europa 0.4%
- Finally, Real Food Make a Hamburger in the Microwave 0.4%
- Houston, Still No Problem Have a character survive for a full year on the Moon on Stationeer Difficulty 0.4%
- I'm Still Alive Have a character survive for a full year on Mars on Stationeer difficulty 0.4%
- It's Not Made of Cheese Visit all of the major points of interest on the Moon 0.4%
- Jovian Winter Have a character survive for a full year on Europa on Stationeer Difficulty 0.4%
- Jupiter Ascending Successfully Scan Jupiter from Low Orbit with a Rocket 0.4%
- Major Tom to Ground Control Enter low-orbit in a manned spacecraft 0.4%
- The Cassini Job Successfully Scan Saturn from Low Orbit with a Rocket 0.4%
- Officially Too Much Mark Watney Experience an explosion in hydroponics 0.4%