ActionAdventureIndie
Moonlighter
The first 3 hours are a test
Gets good by 3h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 15h rated like by long-time players
Reach the ending 26% of players who started
Started playing 51% of owners
Steam reviews 81% positive of 24,823
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (58%); after 15h it's 1 in 10 (10%).
- Fully opens up by hour 15.
- The opening is criticised more than in 87% of games we track.
- 26% of players who start reach the ending.
- Most players drop off before “Overthrow the king!” (Defeat the Golem King): only 71% of starters get there.
- Only 51% 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 24,989 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 69 reviews: 16.2h for positive, 9.5h 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 (50.6% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Overthrow the king! Defeat the Golem King Most players quit here 71% −29
- Prune the plant! Defeat Carnivurous Mutae 50% −21
- Behead the snake! Defeat Naja 35% −15
- Unplug the energy! Defeat Energy Flux 28% −7
- Hero or Merchant? Discover the mistery of the 5th door 26% −2
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (67)
story milestone ending side
- Good Merchant Sell 20 items for the perfect price 100%
- Saver Have a quantity of gold bigger than 5000 100%
- There is no avarice without penalty Die with the inventory full of items 83%
- First Investment Upgrade your shop to the second version 80%
- Overthrow the king! Defeat the Golem King 71%
- Saver+ Have a quantity of gold bigger than 50000 68%
- No Secrets Find a secret room 10 times. 59%
- Saver++ Have a quantity of gold bigger than 100000 58%
- Expansion Upgrade your shop to the Third version 57%
- Naive Merchant Sell 40 items really cheap 50%
- Prune the plant! Defeat Carnivurous Mutae 50%
- Luxury Upgrade your shop to the fourth version 43%
- Scammer Receive 60 really expensive valorations 43%
- Behead the snake! Defeat Naja 35%
- Healthcare System Take potions from breakables 20 times 35%
- Greedy Have a quantity of gold bigger than 1000000 33%
- Does it grow on the trees?!?1 Get money from a tree once 33%
- Emporium Upgrade your shop to the last version 32%
- Special Place Arrive at Crazy Pete place 32%
- Going for supplies... Use the Catalyst in the room before the boss room 31%
- Strange Weapon Get your first Trick Weapon 29%
- Evil Merchant Sell 20 items slightly overpriced 29%
- Rynoka's Major! Buy all improvements in the Town Board 28%
- Unplug the energy! Defeat Energy Flux 28%
- Exterminator Kill 100 bugs 27%
- Careful Merchant Complete the game under 40 deaths 26%
- Hero or Merchant? Discover the mistery of the 5th door 26%
- Rage against the Golems Kill Golem Enemies 1000 Times 24%
- Wasteful Merchant Buy more than 10 times on Le Retalier 22%
- Horde Mode Defeat four Waves of enemies in a Wave room 18%
- Decorative Mind Buy all decorative Items 14%
- Archeologist Read All Crazy Pete Notes 13%
- Gotta go fast! Beat Game Under 10 hours 12%
- Rage against the Forest Kill Forest Enemies 1000 Times 12%
- Golem Apasionate Arrive to the third floor of the Golem Dungeon 10 times 9.3%
- Forest Apasionate Arrive to the third floor of the Forest Dungeon 10 times 7.9%
- Scribe Complete the Notebook 7.3%
- Inter-Dimensional Blacksmith Craft your first ICT weapon 7.3%
- Second Floor Build the elevator to the second floor 7.1%
- Fourth Floor Build the elevator to the fourthfloor 6.3%
- Rage against the Desert Kill Desert Enemies 1000 Times 6.1%
- Distant Warrior Craft All Bows 5.3%
- Balanced Warrior Craft All Short Swords 5.3%
- Sixth Floor Build the elevator to the sixth floor 5.3%
- A Bigger Family Get all DLC companions 5.1%
- Heavy Warrior Craft All Big Swords 5.1%
- Improve Yourself Defeat Evil Will 5.1%
- Berserk Warrior Craft All Gloves 4.9%
- Piercing Warrior Craft All Spears 4.9%
- Greed is Over Beat the Boss of the New Portal 4.9%
- Slime Protection Service Hit the slime of the Witch 42 times 4.7%
- Desert Apasionate Arrive to the third floor of the Desert Dungeon 10 times 4.5%
- Eight Floor Build the elevator to the eight floor 4.3%
- Weaponmaster Craft all weapons 4.2%
- It takes a thief to catch a thief Earn money from the Banker 5 times. 4.0%
- Perfect Golem King Perfect Golem King 3.8%
- Perfect Carnivurous Mutae Perfect Carnivurous Mutae 3.6%
- Perfect Energy Flux Perfect Energy Flux 3.2%
- Tech Apasionate Arrive to the third floor of the Tech Dungeon 10 times 3.2%
- Perfect Naja Perfect Naja 3.0%
- Trick Weapon Collector Get all Trick Weapons from the Dimensional Watcher 3.0%
- Distracted Merchant Make 20 visitors abandon your shop 3.0%
- Savage! Kill a total of 10000 enemies 2.8%
- Janitor Kill all bosses with the broom 2.8%
- Rage against the Machinery Kill Tech Enemies 1000 Times 2.6%
- Really?!? Earn money from trees 100 times 2.6%
- 100% Complete all achievements 2.4%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-18.