Cliff Empire
Give it 20 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 4 reviews are negative (28%); after 20h it's 1 in 16 (6%).
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- Only 59% 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 4,409 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 46.1h for positive, 12.6h 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 (59% 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 (20)
story milestone ending side
- Great build Build 10 buildings at once 100%
- Well, you're a builder Destroy 10 buildings in a row 59%
- Fireman Save 20 buildings from fire 56%
- Student Complete 25% of all researches 44%
- Businessman Earn 50000¢ 44%
- Teacher Complete 50% of all researches 35%
- Village More agrarian drones count than ordinary 28%
- Contamination Critically low ecology 26%
- Orbital visit The moment when two warehouses arrive at once 24%
- Genius Complete 100% of all researches 24%
- New generation Reach 200 newborn on Earth 19%
- Bada Boom The explosion of the nuclear power plant 13%
- Alive again Defrost 2000 people 11%
- Push to limit Fully load trading barge 11%
- Camping Walk from city to the mountains in Ice Citadel 8.6%
- Flying lemon Fly by personal transport when all your cities have a 1000000¢ in total 6.3%
- We will survive Reach 7000 population on Earth 5.6%
- Conqueror of heights Get up by elevator of entertainment center 4.9%
- Trading hub Build 4 trading portals on any cliff 4.6%
- Defender Survive 20 waves of Marauders 4.1%