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Hooks you almost right away
Gets good by 1h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Reach the ending 16% of players who started
Started playing 88% of owners
Steam reviews 94% positive of 5,448
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 15 reviews are negative (7%); after 3h it's 1 in 45 (2%).
- The opening is criticised less than in 95% of games we track.
- 16% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “Connect To Oceania” (Breed) and “Connect To Asia” (4.436 Billion): from 100% to 69% of starters.
- 88% 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 5,504 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 300 reviews: 1.5h for positive, 0.3h 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 (87.9% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Connect To Oceania Breed 100%
- Connect To Asia 4.436 Billion Most players quit here 69% −31
- Connect To Europe Culture Shock 42% −27
- Connect to Americas Oranges, Walls & Salsa 23% −19
- Connect To Africa Watermelon Central 19% −4
- Complete Game Time to find space 16% −2
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (48)
story milestone ending side
- Connect To Oceania Breed 100%
- Connect To Asia 4.436 Billion 69%
- Connect To Europe Culture Shock 42%
- Fail Every Channel On Tutorial Well done 39%
- Reach 20 Frequency Baby Steps 34%
- Connect to Americas Oranges, Walls & Salsa 23%
- Connect To Africa Watermelon Central 19%
- Reach #10 With Another Language Some people were born to cheat for this achievement 17%
- Complete Game Time to find space 16%
- Complete Oceania with 20 Frequency Pleb stuff 16%
- Reach 30 Frequency Preteen Steps 14%
- Play 100 Games Don't let mom know 14%
- Buy All Skills Made it rain 14%
- Achieved Sherlock Mode Damn fine reflexes 10%
- Reach 40 Frequency Teenage Steps 10%
- Survive All Mechanics *cue destiny's child* 9.3%
- Type The Color Not The Word Backinmydaywedidnthavemiceweusedtoeatbricksforbreakfastandcrossthegrandcanyonjustsowecouldgotoschool! 8.9%
- Connected To Saturn So you found the space bar 8.8%
- Skip 25 Channels Automation is the future 8.8%
- Reach #10 With Monochrome You're color blind after all 8.4%
- Reach 50 Frequency Adult Steps 8.2%
- Complete Asia with 40 Frequency Pleb-ish stuff 7.7%
- Combo For 100 Channels Don't confuse this with the other achievement 7.5%
- Accumulate 1000CP Spending Time 7.2%
- Reach 60 Frequency Old-Man Steps 6.6%
- Complete Europe with 70 Frequency Almost Pleb stuff 5.3%
- Reach #200 On Saturn This needed a lot of focus - very well done if you achieved this 4.9%
- Accumulate 2000CP Spending A Lot Of Time 4.6%
- Complete Americas with 90 Frequency Seasonally Pleb stuff 4.6%
- Complete Africa with 110 Frequency Not Pleb stuff 4.2%
- Complete Game Without Maxing Combo What a tease 4.0%
- COLOR ROULETTE PASTA MAD 3.9%
- Discover The Abandoned Stations These stations were lost, closed, abandoned or dismantled 3.8%
- Survived The Arctic Mechanics Encountered All Mechanics 3.6%
- Purpose Connected To Antarctica 3.5%
- Not Blind After All Pass a blurred channel without pressing space 3.5%
- Complete Antarctica It's time to turn the 90s TV off 3.5%
- YOU'RE MAD MAD 3.5%
- Competed All Achievements THERE'S NOTHING LEFT TO DO - GOOD BYE! 3.4%
- Lost To Orange 10 Times Orange Juice 3.3%
- Lost To Cyan 100 Times BFR? More like BFI 3.3%
- QUICK TING WHAT TING? 3.3%
- Orump Solved 10 Oranges by typing 'Trump' 3.3%
- CASH Get 50 CP during one use of Double CP 3.2%
- Earth's Favorite Colour Send Cyan to space 10 times from Saturn 3.2%
- Lost To Pink 20 Times 20 Times 3.2%
- Complete The Abandoned Stations with 60 freq. Speedy gonzales 3.1%
- Aren't planning to go to Uni? That's fine 3.1%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-19.