CasualIndieSimulationStrategy
Citystate
Give it 10 hours
Gets good by 10h then rated almost like by veterans
Started playing 54% of owners
Steam reviews 76% positive of 814
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (50%); after 10h it's 1 in 5 (21%).
- The opening is criticised more than in 77% of games we track.
- Few early reviews, so this is a rough estimate.
- Only 54% 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 816 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 296 reviews: 14.1h for positive, 4.9h 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 (53.9% 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 (30)
- Small Town The population reached 10,000! 100%
- Third World Country Slums are spreading all over the city. 89%
- Bankruptcy The government ran out of money. 82%
- Emirate A barren country full of ressources. 74%
- Small City The population reached 50,000! 73%
- City The population reached 100,000! 58%
- Humanist Refugees are integrating our economy quickly. 53%
- Swiss GDP There are more bankers than cows. 52%
- Space Explorer We successfully launched our first spaceship into space! 47%
- Productivist National production reaches a new record high! 47%
- Chaos Our nation slides into chaos. 43%
- Red-Light District An open-minded governance 40%
- Eco Terrorist Environmental conditions have never been worse. 37%
- Vertical Farms Farms are going vertical. 36%
- Big City The population reached 250,000! 35%
- Tomorrowland All arcologies have been built. 35%
- Utopian Society We are about to fulfill a utopian dream. 25%
- Tourism Capital 10,000 tourists! 23%
- Metropolis The population reached 500,000! 22%
- Libertarian Anarchy Our government is recognized as a libertarian anarchy. 20%
- Extra-solar Expansion The first settlers have arrived! 15%
- Megalopolis Unbelievable! The population reached 1,000,000! 13%
- Army Nation We feel safer now. 12%
- Popular Leader The approval rate is unbelievably high. 9.3%
- Tax Haven Our nation became a well-known tax haven. 7.8%
- Historic Our country has been up and healthy for 500 years! 4.6%
- Big Colony The first space city! 3.2%
- Communist Disctatorship Our government is recognized as a communist dictatorship. 1.9%
- Regional Power Our region is in all maps. 1.7%
- Encounter of the third type We are not alone! 1.5%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-20.