When does No Time to Relax get good?

Give it 3 hours. In the first 2 hours 1 in 4 reviews are negative (27%); after 5h it's 1 in 25 (4%). Fully opens up by hour 5.

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No Time to Relax

Aug 21, 2019 Steam: Very Positive

Give it 3 hours

Gets good by 3h almost every game dips in hours 2–3

Fully opens up by 5h rated like by long-time players

Started playing 82% of owners

Steam reviews 92% positive of 2,936

What the data shows

In the first 2 hours 1 in 4 reviews are negative (27%); after 5h it's 1 in 25 (4%).
Fully opens up by hour 5.
The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
82% 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 2,975 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 294 reviews: 6.3h for positive, 2.3h 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 (82.1% 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 (67)

story milestone ending side

No Experience Needed Achieve a total of 200 work experience. 100%
Requirement: Kindergarten Achieve a total of 400 work experience. 97%
Requirement: Elementary School Achieve a total of 800 work experience. 92%
Requirement: Secondary School Achieve a total of 1.600 work experience. 86%
Requirement: College Achieve a total of 2.400 work experience. 81%
Dirty Bulking Phase Eat fast food after working out. 81%
Moving Up in the World! Move into Fancy Housing. 76%
Wait, What is This? Invest in pork-butts. 73%
Requirement: University Achieve a total of 4.800 work experience 71%
Would You Like a Combo? Try the Bear Combo. 69%
#lotto Buy 5 Lottery Tickets in a game. 67%
Hard Knock Life Finish a Long game. 65%
Crypto is the future! Hey, hey hey! Make a profit from Bytecoin investments 64%
Living on the Edge Finish a Medium game. 63%
It's My Parents Money Always pay your rent on time in a game. 61%
One Small Step... Go to space. 59%
Requirement: CEO Achieve a total of 9.600 work experience. 57%
Easy Living Finish a Short game. 56%
Student Life Have $0 in your wallet after enrolling in any university course. 53%
Preparing For a Disaster Buy a Fire Extinguisher and a Fire Alarm 53%
42.195 km Finish a Marathon game. 51%
Exam Season Spend half your turn studying for 2 weeks in a row. 49%
Congratulations, Now What? Complete the University tree. 46%
I'm Quite a Big Deal Online, 'ya Know Win an online multiplayer game. 39%
I Wasn't Hungry Anyway.... Forget to eat 10 times in a game. 36%
Regular Ramsay Buy everything for your kitchen and fully stock your fridge. 33%
Mattress Money Win a game without depositing money into the Bank 32%
Requirement: Superhuman Achieve a total of 19.200 work experience 31%
The Enlightened One Take a look at the tutorial. 27%
Flexible Do yoga 4 weeks in a row. 26%
Walked 500 miles! Walk a total of 500 miles. 26%
Hoarder In a single game buy all the items possible for your apartment. 24%
Nice Butt! Invest 20 times in pork-butts. 23%
Big Boss Pants Win a game as a CEO. 22%
No Time to Relax Play a total of 8 hours 19%
Rinse and Repeat Work 20 times consecutively without other actions. 19%
Fashion Beast! Buy every type of clothing in a single game. 19%
Fashioning the Birthday Suit Win a game butt naked. 17%
Why? Why Did You Do This? Make the mysterious stranger lose his head. 17%
Fancy Lifestyle Live in the Fancy Housing for a total of 100 weeks. 16%
Cutting Phase Work out 10 weeks in a row. 16%
Bytecoins Can Only Go Up Make a total profit of $1000 from Bytecoins. 13%
Intervention is Needed Buy a Lottery Ticket 10 weeks in a row. 13%
Let's Get the Party Started! Go see a concert 2 weeks in a row. 12%
Lots of Time to Relax Your stress level must be 1 or lower for a whole Marathon game. 9.6%
Have to Start Somewhere Work as a janitor for a total of 101 weeks. 9.1%
Freedom Fries Eat only fries in one game. 9.0%
Free Willy Relax while naked with max happiness. 8.0%
I'm an Investor Make a total profit of $2000 from Stocks. 7.7%
Welcome to Indiana Win a game without going to the gym or culture center. 6.8%
I'd Like to Take a Loan to Pay My Debt, Thanks Owe the bank over $1,000. 6.2%
I Just Like to Look Nice Buy a suit without having any education. 5.6%
Naked and Afraid Spend a total of 50 weeks naked. 5.2%
Someone has to do it Win a game as a janitor 4.9%
Never Got Time to Relax Reach stress level 40. 4.4%
No Shit Sherlock Click the Shit Drifters poster in your apartment. 3.2%
Ready for Winter Never go below 2 weeks worth of food in your fridge in a long game. 3.0%
I'm a Saver Store a total of $99.999 in the Bank. 2.6%
You Never Walk Alone See a soccer match 6 times in a long game. 2.4%
Best of Every Life Win a game with each character. 2.3%
It's Not an Addiction, I Can Stop if I Want Buy a Lottery Ticket every week in a game. 2.3%
True Hiker Hike a mountain 20 times in a Marathon game. 2.2%
You're Terminated, F***** Beat the CPU in all game modes. 1.7%
Cluckers is Life, Cluckers is Love Eat a Cluckers meal on every turn in a marathon game. 1.5%
Hey Friend Visit the girl in the Culture center every week in a game. 1.5%
Where are the Developers? Find all the developers in the game. 1.3%
Intense Hunger Games Win a long game without eating once. 1.2%

Steam page Updated: 2026-10-19.