Passpartout: The Starving Artist
Give it 3 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours almost 1 in 3 reviews are negative (29%); after 4h it's 1 in 16 (6%).
- 23% of players who start reach the ending.
- Most players drop off before “Making an Impact” (Impress the critic): only 64% of starters get there.
- 84% 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 7,074 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 294 reviews: 6h for positive, 2.3h 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 (84.4% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Making an Impact Impress the critic. Most players quit here 65% −35
- With a Steady Hand Master craftsmanship. 33% −32
- Enter Euphoria 23% −9
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (25)
story milestone ending side
- Managing Finances Keep track of your cash flow! 100%
- A Less Controlled Approach Use the Spray Can tool. 95%
- A Diminutive Enterprise Sell 10 Paintings 93%
- Cold Feet Throw away a painting that is for sale. 87%
- Begone, beggar! Reject your biggest fan. 81%
- A More Controlled Approach Use the Steady Pen tool. 65%
- Making an Impact Impress the critic. 65%
- Two Score Half of Art Sell 50 paintings. 36%
- With a Steady Hand Master craftsmanship. 33%
- On a High Horse Reject 20 bids. 26%
- Let's just start over Clear a painting after having worked on it for 3 minutes. 24%
- Obsessive Create a masterpiece. 23%
- Enter Euphoria 23%
- Piece de Blanque Put a blank canvas on display. 19%
- Million Dollar Babies Master design. 18%
- Corny Sell a painting for over 9000€ 15%
- Feeling the Carpal Tunnel Sell 100 paintings. 13%
- Colourful Be creative! 10%
- Copycat The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal. 6.0%
- The Ladies Swoon Master realism. 5.8%
- Successful Delinquency Master passion. 3.1%
- Distracted Make a lot of noise. 2.8%
- Flabberghasting! Master expressionism. 2.1%
- Art. Master minimalism. 1.4%
- The Many Lives of Passpartout Witness all endings. 1.1%