Rise of Industry
Give it 7 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (49%); after 15h it's 1 in 6 (17%).
- Fully opens up by hour 15.
- The opening is criticised more than in 77% of games we track.
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- 70% 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 4,231 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 297 reviews: 19.7h for positive, 5.9h 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 (70.5% 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 (27)
story milestone ending side
- Entrepreneur Place your first Production or Logistic building 100%
- Master Builder Place every Building once across all playthoughs 68%
- Well educated Complete the Tutorial 67%
- Big Hauling Transport 25,000 Units of Products across all playthoughs 62%
- City Planner Place 10 Buildings within range of a single Warehouse 62%
- Apprentice Manufacturer Generate 1,000 Products across all playthoughs 56%
- Exporter Sell to the State 52%
- Landscaper Use Terraforming for the first time 50%
- Deforester Demolish 50 Tiles of Trees 49%
- I would drive 500 tiles... Set a Dispatch Truck to travel over 500 tiles. 38%
- Massive Gains Make 1 million dollars in net income in a month. 36%
- Penniless Lose the game through Bankruptcy 34%
- Railwayman Setup a Train Trade Route 34%
- Salesman Sell a Tier 3 Product 17%
- Engineer Build a Bridge of at least 25 tiles long 16%
- High Flyer Setup a Zeppelin Trade Route 11%
- Captain Setup a Boat Trade Route 7.0%
- Loan Ranger Take out a Loan that is over 25m 5.2%
- Excavator Build a Tunnel of at least 25 tiles long 4.3%
- Billionaire Raise $1,000,000,000 in one playthrough 3.4%
- Vroom Vroom Completed the Car Prototype 3.3%
- [2130] Dumpster Diving Collect 1000 units of Steel from a map in a single game. 2.8%
- Director Spend 5 minutes in the Free-Cam mode 2.7%
- [2130] Nature Lover Completely clean a Region of Pollution 1.6%
- Hard working Place 1,000 Buildings across all playthoughs 1.6%
- Freelancer Complete 50 Contracts across all playthoughs 1.3%
- [2130] No Quarter Given. Lose all Settlements to Pollution 1.1%