AdventureIndie
Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair
Give it 1 hour
Gets good by 1h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 15h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 59% of owners
Steam reviews 80% positive of 1,441
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours almost 1 in 2 reviews are negative (43%); after 15h it's 1 in 10 (10%).
- Fully opens up by hour 15.
- Only 58% 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 1,449 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 17.4h for positive, 3.4h 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 (58.5% 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 (47)
- T.W.I.T. Coin...hmm, cryptic Get your first T.W.I.T. coin 100%
- Paywalls!? Lower Trowzer's First Paywall 76%
- Army of 2 Rescue 2 Bee Team guards 71%
- Just the play-tonic Equip a Tonic 71%
- Army of 4 Rescue 4 Bee Team guards 53%
- T.W.I.T. Mining Get 10 T.W.I.T. coins 53%
- Army of 6 Rescue 6 Bee Team guards 46%
- Another Paywall!? Lower Trowzer's Second Paywall 43%
- Army of 8 Rescue 8 Bee Team guards 39%
- Mock Chain Get 25 T.W.I.T. Coins 38%
- Double Mixer Beat a level with just two play-tonics equipped 36%
- Army of 10 Rescue 10 Bee Team guards 35%
- Army of 12 Rescue 12 Bee Team guards 32%
- Last Paywall, right!? Lower Trowzer's Third Paywall 32%
- Army of 14 Rescue 14 Bee Team guards 30%
- Triple tipple Beat a level with just three play-tonics equipped 30%
- Army of 16 Rescue 16 Bee Team guards 28%
- T.W.I.T. farming Get 50 T.W.I.T. coins 28%
- Another Paywall, Really!? Lower Trowzer's Fourth Paywall 28%
- Army of 18 Rescue 18 Bee Team guards 27%
- Army of 20 Rescue 20 Bee Team guards 26%
- Army of 22 Rescue 22 Bee Team guards 24%
- Five Paywalls!! Scum. Lower Trowzer's Fifth Paywall 24%
- Army of 24 Rescue 24 Bee Team guards 24%
- Army of 26 Rescue 26 Bee Team guards 23%
- Army of 28 Rescue 28 Bee Team guards 22%
- You're a big T.W.I.T. Collector Get 100 T.W.I.T. Coin 21%
- Army of 30 Rescue 30 Bee Team guards 21%
- Mmm, sausages Whoa, you unlocked a secret area! 21%
- Army of 32 Rescue 32 Bee Team guards 20%
- Army of 34 Rescue 34 Bee Team guards 20%
- Army of 36 Rescue 36 Bee Team guards 19%
- Army of 38 Rescue 38 Bee Team guards 18%
- Army of 40 Rescue 40 Bee Team guards 18%
- Army of 42 Rescue 42 Bee Team guards 17%
- Army of 44 Rescue 44 Bee Team guards 15%
- Four play-tonics Beat a level with four play-tonics equipped 14%
- Super tonic Found and purchased 20 play-tonics 14%
- Army of 46 Rescue 46 Bee Team Guards 14%
- Army of 48 Rescue 48 Bee Team Guards 14%
- Full Guard Shield Get Assemble all 48 Bee Team Guards 14%
- World's biggest T.W.I.T. Collector Get 200 T.W.I.T. coins 12%
- Four Tonic Slots! Get a real fourth Tonic slot 11%
- Tonic Mania Found all Overworld play-tonics 10%
- HIVE won! Defeat Capital B at the end of the game 10%
- Tonic Boom! Purchased all Overworld play-tonics 8.5%
- Plan Beaten Collect every achievement in Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair 7.2%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-20.