IndieSimulationStrategy
Ruinarch
Hooks you right away
Gets good instantly from the first hour
Started playing 30% of owners
Steam reviews 62% positive of 1,423
What the data shows
- 60% of first-hour reviews are positive — about the same as players with 7+ hours (61%).
- Only 30% 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 1,440 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 15.6h for positive, 12.3h 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 (29.6% 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 (28)
- I Am The Boogeyman Abduct and imprison a Villager. 100%
- All I See Is Blood I Kill a Human. 100%
- A Good Ol' Destruction Destroy a Resource Pile. 92%
- It Takes One, To Make One Create a Psychopath. 86%
- Kneel Before Me! Create a Demon Cultist. 85%
- Scratch That Itch Trigger a Villager's flaw. 84%
- You Like Slow Deaths? Poison a food object. 82%
- All I See Is Blood II Kill an Elf. 73%
- Tear Them Down Remove a Buff Trait from a Villager. 73%
- Show Us Your True Self Turn a Villager evil. 64%
- Noxious Create a Poison Cloud through an Elemental Interaction. 52%
- Tattletale Share a crime intel. 35%
- Adultarch Finish a game in Progression 16%
- Sexy Time Trigger a Villager's arousal. 16%
- Babyarch Finish a game in Eradication with Omnipotent 14%
- Is That You, Lucifer? Gain 1 Fallen Angel charge. 12%
- Misty Create a Frosty Fog through an Elemental Interaction. 10%
- Teenarch Finish a game in Eradication without Omnipotent 6.1%
- What Are You Plotting? Snatch an object. 5.1%
- Ruinarch Finish a game in Attainment 3.7%
- Idol Worship Complete all tasks under the Idol Worship goal in a single playthrough. 3.4%
- Static Create a Ball Lightning through an Elemental Interaction. 2.7%
- Outbreak Complete all tasks under the Outbreak goal in a single playthrough. 2.4%
- You Sneaky Bastard! Capture a Triton. 1.4%
- Creatures of the Night Complete all tasks under the Creatures of the Night goal in a single playthrough. 1.0%
- Terrorized Villagers Complete all tasks under the Terrorized Villagers goal in a single playthrough. 1.0%
- Death and Destruction Complete all tasks under the Death and Destruction goal in a single playthrough. 0.7%
- Undead Supremacy Complete all tasks under the Undead Supremacy goal in a single playthrough. 0.7%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-20.