Evil Bank Manager
The first 2 hours are a test
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (54%); after 7h it's 1 in 5 (19%).
- Fully opens up by hour 3.
- The opening is criticised more than in 83% 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 1,761 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 294 reviews: 13.5h for positive, 6.7h 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 (96.3% 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 (57)
- Financier Top100 Create a bank worth 50,000 100%
- Economist Top100 Open 1 region 97%
- Banker Top100 Open 1 country 97%
- Investor Top100 Buy 1 property through investment 96%
- Lender Top100 Issue 1 credit 95%
- Tactic Top100 Win 1 battle 79%
- ResearcherTop100 Develop 100 science points per turn 79%
- Investor Top20 Buy 10 properties through investment 72%
- Collector Top100 Spend 100 fear 69%
- Economist Top50 Open 5 regions 68%
- Scientist Top200 Study 1 science 67%
- Lender Top20 Issue 10 credits 64%
- Tactic Top20 Win 5 battles 64%
- Collector Top20 Spend 500 fear 61%
- Financier Top50 Create a bank worth 200,000 60%
- Collector Top10 Spend 2000 fear 60%
- Banker Top20 Open 3 countries 59%
- Collector Top5 Spend 5000 fear 58%
- Tactic Top10 Win 10 battles 57%
- Collector Top1 Spend 10000 fear 57%
- Financier Top20 Create a bank worth 500,000 56%
- Aggressor top100 Invest in war 100.000 55%
- Economist Top20 Open 20 regions 54%
- Financier Top10 Create a bank worth 1.000.000 52%
- Investor Top10 Buy 50 properties through investment 51%
- Aggressor top20 Invest in war 250.000 51%
- Scientist Top100 Study 10 sciences 50%
- ResearcherTop50 Generate 500 science per turn 50%
- Lender Top10 Issue 50 credits 49%
- Financier Top5 Create a bank worth 2.000.000 49%
- Tactic Top5 Win 20 battles 49%
- Banker Top10 Open 5 countries 48%
- Aggressor top5 Invest in war 500.000 48%
- Economist Top10 Open 50 regions 45%
- Aggressor top1 Invest in war 1.000.000 44%
- ResearcherTop10 Generate 1000 science per turn 44%
- Financier Top1 Create a bank worth 5.000.000 44%
- Scientist Top50 Study 25 sciences 42%
- Investor Top5 Buy 100 properties through investment 42%
- Economist Top5 Open 75 regions 39%
- ResearcherTop1 Generate 2000 science per turn 39%
- Tactic Top1 Win 50 battles 35%
- Lender Top5 Issue 200 credits 34%
- Economist Top1 Open 100 regions 34%
- Scientist Top25 Study 50 sciences 32%
- Banker Top5 Open 10 countries 30%
- Investor Top1 Buy 200 properties through investment 26%
- IMF Buy 51%> IMF shares. 24%
- Federal Reserve Build the Federal Reserve 17%
- Banker Top1 Open 20 countries 16%
- Medium Victory Any victory on the Medium difficulty level. 13%
- Lender Top1 Issue 500 credits 13%
- Scientist Top1 Get Science Victory 13%
- Scientist Top10 To study 80 sciences 9.4%
- Hard Victory Any victory on the Hard difficulty. 3.9%
- Ultra hard Victory Any victory on the Ultra Hard difficulty. 3.6%
- Killer Bankrupt all banks competitors. 2.9%