IndieSimulationEarly Access
Saurian
The first 3 hours are a test
Gets good by 3h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Started playing 53% of owners
Steam reviews 60% positive of 1,852
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (63%); after 5h it's 1 in 3 (33%).
- The opening is criticised more than in 92% of games we track.
- Only 53% 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 1,863 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 295 reviews: 9.4h for positive, 4.7h 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 (53% 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 (12)
- Gut Instinct Successfully hunt your first prey 100%
- Fledgeling Advance to Juvenile for the first time 93%
- Intraspecies Predation Eat flesh from another of your own species 76%
- "They're Lethal at 8 Months" Advance to Sub-Adult for the first time 61%
- The Big One Advance to Adult for the first time 42%
- Trackway Travel 100km 38%
- Dakotaraptor's Resting Place Find Bone Butte 29%
- The Crocodile Hunter Successfully kill a Borealosuchus 24%
- Intraguild Predation As a juvenile, successfully kill an Acheroraptor 16%
- King of the Hill Reach the highest elevation on the map 3.6%
- "Only the strong survive..." Die of old age 0.6%
- Ghost of the Floodplain Advance to super-adult for the first time 0.6%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-19.