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Star of Providence
Hooks you almost right away
Gets good by 2h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 5h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 96% of owners
Steam reviews 97% positive of 3,388
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 11 reviews are negative (9%); after 7h it's 1 in 50 (2%).
- Fully opens up by hour 5.
- The opening is criticised less than in 92% of games we track.
- The biggest drop-off is between “Underflow” (Reach the Maintenance System (Floor 3)) and “Molten Core” (Reach the Bellows (Floor 4)): from 86% to 73% of starters.
- 96% 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 3,425 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 297 reviews: 12.4h for positive, 1.3h 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 (96.4% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Humble Beginnings Reach the Excavation (Floor 1). 100%
- Archive Diving Reach the Archives (Floor 2). 96% −4
- Underflow Reach the Maintenance System (Floor 3). 86% −10
- Molten Core Reach the Bellows (Floor 4). Most players quit here 73% −13
- End Layer Reach the Sanctum (Floor 5). 61% −12
- Temple Game Reach the Temple. 49% −11
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (52)
story milestone ending side
- Humble Beginnings Reach the Excavation (Floor 1). 100%
- Archive Diving Reach the Archives (Floor 2). 96%
- Underflow Reach the Maintenance System (Floor 3). 86%
- Molten Core Reach the Bellows (Floor 4). 73%
- End Layer Reach the Sanctum (Floor 5). 61%
- Temple Game Reach the Temple. 49%
- Accursed One Defeated the Overlord. 41%
- Ward Breaker Defeat the Warden. 38%
- Annoying Leave that poor cat alone. 27%
- Forbidden Pass the seal. (Floor 6) 25%
- Thorough Explorer Get an S Rank in Exploration (Visit all rooms) 23%
- Treasure Trove Finished a run with a score of 100,000. 22%
- Ego Sum Aeternae This is what you wanted, isn't it? 18%
- Too Refined Tarnish notte the majesty! (Acquired all Hats) 16%
- Master of the Unseen Get an S Rank in Secrets (Find all secrets) 14%
- Overflow Reach Nowhere. 8.9%
- Freedom Defeated the Monolith. 7.6%
- Those You Could Save Protect Blastcore's smile. 7.0%
- It Begins Discover Looping. 5.7%
- Speed Runner Get an S Rank in Time (Under 20 minutes). 5.3%
- Impossible Riches Finished a run with a score of 200,000. 4.8%
- Blessed One Won the game as Overlord. 4.3%
- Epitaph I Clear Trial I. 4.0%
- Ahead of the Competition Won the game as Skully. 3.7%
- Tag Champion Become the reigning tag champion. 3.7%
- Traditionalist Won the game as Arena Blaster. 3.2%
- Anarchist Won the game as the Chaos Ship. 3.0%
- Macrocore Get the maximum reward from a Microcore in one of the last floors. 3.0%
- Intense Won the game on Intense Lethality. 2.9%
- Gauntlet Ace Clear the Gauntlet and its caretaker. Perfectly. 2.7%
- Hack Wizard Reach a highscore of 20 minigames in the Hub. 2.5%
- Evasive Get an S Rank in Damage (10 hits or fewer) 2.5%
- The Banisher Banish Chaosgod. 2.4%
- Out of Depth Reach Loop 3. 2.4%
- Jack of all Trades Won the game as Armsmaster. 2.1%
- Peashooter Won without getting any weapons. 1.9%
- Epitaph II Clear Trial II. 1.7%
- Friends Admire a fine portrait. 1.7%
- Everything Hurts Reach Loop 7. 1.7%
- Shoot the Bullet Take a screenshot containing 100 bullets. 1.7%
- Impossibler Riches Finished a run with a score of 300,000. 1.6%
- Exalted Get all 4 S Ranks in one run. 1.6%
- Power Internal Won without getting any upgrades. 1.6%
- Death, Suddenly Won the game on Sudden Death Lethality 1.6%
- The Banished Destroy Chaosgod's core. 1.3%
- Eternal Nightmare Reach Loop 13. 1.1%
- Epitaph III Clear Trial III. 1.0%
- Insult to Injury Avoid a confrontation with the thirteenth visitor. 0.9%
- Decoherence Abandon everything you hold dear. 0.7%
- Epitaph IV Clear Trial IV. 0.6%
- World Record Hear every song in the game. 0.4%
- Eulogy Clear all Trials. 0.3%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-19.