Startup Company
The first 3 hours are a test
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (56%); after 10h it's 1 in 9 (11%).
- Fully opens up by hour 10.
- The opening is criticised more than in 85% of games we track.
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- 94% 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 6,264 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 298 reviews: 14.8h for positive, 4.4h 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 (93.5% 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 (29)
story milestone ending side
- Enjoy Your Stay Hired 1 employee 100%
- Interviewer Hire 5 employees 91%
- Employment Machine Hire 10 employees 73%
- You're Out Fire 1 employee 63%
- A Small Loan of a Million Dollars Take out 1 loan 62%
- Into Black Have a monthly profit of at least $0 56%
- You Aswell Fire 5 employees 31%
- Super Speed Have an employee reaching a base speed of 480% 22%
- Researcher Research everything 21%
- Bankrupt Go bankrupt 21%
- The Average Worker Secure a retirement fund of more than $500,000 18%
- Addicted Play for more than 1000 in-game days 18%
- Upper Middle Class Secure a retirement fund of more than $1,000,000 17%
- Sell Out Own less than 50% of your own website 16%
- Fireworks Fire 10 employees 15%
- The Sun Is The Future Invest 100% of Space-based Solar Power 12%
- Biggy Shot Secure a retirement fund of more than $45,000,000 11%
- Dangerous Future Invest 100% of Fusion Power Plant 11%
- The Wave Invest 100% of Tidal Power Plant 10%
- Support Resolve 1000 support tickets 9.3%
- Mister Biggy Biggy Shot Secure a retirement fund of more than $200,000,000 8.4%
- Not So Creative Choose a not so creative website name 8.1%
- The Zuck Become #1 Social Media product 5.9%
- Small But Efficient Reach 1,000,000 users while still in the smallest office building 4.9%
- Mister World Wide Secure a retirement fund of more than $3,500,000,000 4.5%
- The Overclocker Produce 1 million CU with all servers at 200% 4.0%
- The Collector Reach an inventory of more than 100,000 of the same component/module 3.9%
- World Domination Became Top #1 of all website types in one game 1.7%
- Fast Support Reach an average response time lower than 2 hours with more than 500 tickets 1.6%