IndieSimulation
7 Billion Humans
Hooks you almost right away
Gets good by 3h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 7h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 96% of owners
Steam reviews 93% positive of 2,149
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 6 reviews are negative (16%); after 7h it's 1 in 25 (4%).
- Fully opens up by hour 7.
- The opening is criticised less than in 81% of games we track.
- 96% 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 2,171 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 300 reviews: 8.2h for positive, 6.3h 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 (96.2% 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 (19)
- Career Milestone 1 Finish the You're Hired! cutscene. 100%
- Worker's Comp: Trust Exercise A worker fell into an infinite pit. 96%
- Career Milestone 2 Finish the Intro to Morale Officers cutscene. 86%
- Queen of Inefficiency Solve any puzzle with at least 4x the number of seconds required by the speed challenge. 73%
- Worker's Comp: Shredding It A worker is shredded by a shredder. 59%
- Worker's Comp: Crushing It A worker is a crushed by an appliance. 52%
- Career Milestone 3 Finish the Fitness Program cutscene. 43%
- Worker's Comp: Explosive Failure A worker exploded. 40%
- Glorious Failure: Solution Not Robust Your solution fails more than 50% of the time. 35%
- Social Engineer Listen to all worker thoughts in a level. 30%
- Career Milestone 4 Finish the Morning Petroleum cutscene. 24%
- King of Verbosity Solve any puzzle with at least 4x the number of commands required by the size challenge. 23%
- Worker's Comp: Shrieking Steel Blades A worker is shredded by a killbot. 14%
- Career Milestone 5 Finish the Mom and Dad of Invention cutscene. 9.4%
- Green Optimization Award Green path fully optimized. 7.8%
- Blue Optimization Award Blue path fully optimized. 5.6%
- Excellent Instruction Follower All levels complete. Congratulations. 5.3%
- Orange Optimization Award Orange path fully optimized 5.0%
- Red Optimization Award Red path fully optimized. 3.6%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-19.