IndieSimulationStrategy
Interplanetary: Enhanced Edition
Give it 1 hour
Gets good by 1h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 7h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 42% of owners
Steam reviews 85% positive of 944
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 3 reviews are negative (36%); after 7h it's 1 in 9 (11%).
- Fully opens up by hour 7.
- Few early reviews, so this is a rough estimate.
- Only 42% 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 955 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 291 reviews: 9.3h for positive, 3.9h 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 (41.5% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
Story milestones aren't labeled yet; all achievements are listed below.
All achievements (27)
- Interplanetary Home Run Hit yourself with a weapon fired from your own planet. 100%
- Lord in a Harvest Defeat an enemy planet. 68%
- Mushroom Cloud Extreme Fire Nuclear Missile super weapon. 62%
- Surgical Devastation Fire Solar Laser super weapon. 59%
- Like a Fist of an Angry God Fire Asteroid Diversion super weapon. 51%
- Eyes on the Gauge Have your planet run out of material. 34%
- Medal for the Winner Win an online multiplayer match. 28%
- King of the Antpile Win a multiplayer match with at least two players. 28%
- King of the Hill Win a multiplayer match with at least four players. 25%
- Multitasker Fire all the superweapons during the same turn. 20%
- Brought a Brain to a CPU fight Outlive 7 AIs in one match. 19%
- Turbo-Reaper Defeat two enemy planets in one turn. 15%
- Make room! Make room! Grow five cities to their maximum populations. 15%
- Earned It Square Have 35,000 material in stock. 14%
- Science Victory? Unlock all technologies. 8.7%
- Inconceivable! Beat the Impossible AI. 7.5%
- I Am Become Death Destroy 100 cities over any number of games. 6.5%
- Tesla would be Proud Produce 15,000 Energy in one turn. 6.3%
- King of the Mountain Win a multiplayer match with eight players. 5.5%
- Too much! Build 200 buildings on your planet. 5.3%
- Interplanetary Trophy of Awesome Win 5 online multiplayer matches. 3.6%
- Just what do you think you're doing, Dave? Win 10 single player games. 2.7%
- Great! Win a match with less than 200M population left. 2.4%
- Bragging Rights Win 10 online multiplayer matches. 1.7%
- BSOD Win 25 single player games. 1.7%
- Blood for the Blood God Win 25 online multiplayer matches. 1.4%
- Skulls for the Skull Throne Win 50 online multiplayer matches. 1.4%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-20.