Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition
Give it 15 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours almost 1 in 2 reviews are negative (41%); after 35h it's 1 in 14 (7%).
- Fully opens up by hour 35.
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- Only 46% 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 3,492 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 298 reviews: 51.1h for positive, 10.1h 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 (46.1% 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 (31)
story milestone ending side
- A New Lineage Pass your locomotive to a new captain in your lineage. 100%
- The Garden of Heaven Discover all stations in the Reach. 73%
- The Fortunes of War Upset the balance of power in the Reach. 70%
- The Black Box Resolve Captain Whitlock's Legacy. 67%
- Blythe Spirits Decide the fate of Percy Blythe. 60%
- A Full Complement Appoint a full complement of officers, including a Mascot. 52%
- Then and Back Again Return from a Weft of Unravelling Time. 43%
- A True Tackety Become a hero to the Tacketies. 38%
- Off the Rails Succumb to your terror. 35%
- The Clockwise Kingdom Discover all stations in Albion. 35%
- Tradition is the Democracy of the Dead Complete the Boatman's journey. 27%
- A Staunch Stovepipe Become a valued agent of the Windward Company. 27%
- —E SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN TH— Restore the Clockwork Sun to its strength and its glory. 23%
- A Whistle-Stop Tour Visit all four regions with a single captain. 22%
- The Midnight Groves Discover all stations in Eleutheria. 22%
- The Districts of the Dead Discover all stations in the Blue Kingdom. 19%
- Who are you in the Dark? Advance a captain to level 20. 18%
- Unto the Seventh Generation Continue a lineage to its seventh captain. 13%
- Fully Armed and Operational Learn the Unassailable Founder's secret. 13%
- Where the Winds Wait Launch a successful expedition into the Graveyard of Stars. 11%
- Writ Upon the Sky Retire to a life of fame, having written the Song of the Sky. 10%
- A Comfortable Retirement Retire to a grand mansion with a hoard to make a dragon envious. 8.2%
- An Enemy of All Gods Anger all the sky-gods at once. 6.5%
- Lavenders Blue, Lavenders Green Hatch and adopt a certain lovable scamp, even if she keeps stealing your crew's fingers and toes. 6.3%
- The Stars are Dying Learn the secret that the stars hide, and find a way to survive it. 5.6%
- The Flying Zoo Have these on board at once: Inadvisably Big Dog, Perfect Pangolin, Useless Cat, Diffident Bat, Star-Smitten Bat, Intrepid Cavy, Ratronaut. 3.9%
- Lose Yourself Be consumed by your nightmares. 3.3%
- This Service Will Terminate Here Fly your locomotive beyond Death's Door and there meet your end. 3.3%
- All Shall be Well Have 0 Crew, 0 Fuel, 0 Supplies, and Terror of 90 or more. 2.8%
- Idylls of the King Complete the quest for the Martyr-King's Cup. 2.8%
- A Soul the Devil Wouldn't Touch Possess a soul devoid of redeeming qualities. 2.6%