CHANGE: A Homeless Survival Experience
Give it 3 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 5 reviews are negative (19%); after 7h it's 1 in 14 (7%).
- At least 43% of players who start reach the ending.
- 77% 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 2,896 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 10.5h for positive, 8.5h 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 (76.9% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Poverty story complete Complete the game with the poverty story ≥43% −57
story milestone ending (most common ending) biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (30)
story milestone ending side
- Prepared Obtain a special item 100%
- Survival Survive for 10 days 100%
- Companionship So you're not the only one who's down on their luck... 87%
- Friendship You don't have to be alone 71%
- Employed Get a job 70%
- Survivor Survive for 25 days 67%
- Street smarts Attain max perks in any category 63%
- Trader Make a trade 63%
- A New Life Escape homelessness 57%
- Poverty story complete Complete the game with the poverty story 43%
- Survivalist Survive for 50 days 37%
- Veteran story complete Complete the game with the Veteran story 23%
- Inner strength Beat a bliss addiction 22%
- Mental Illness story complete Complete the game with the Mental Illness story 15%
- Abandoned story complete Complete the game with the abandoned story 15%
- The End Unlock the true ending 13%
- Reality master Lv 1 Complete the game at reality level 1 8.2%
- Addict story complete Complete the game with the addict story 8.1%
- Experienced Unlock all items and buildings 6.2%
- Story master Complete the game with all stories 4.9%
- Reality master Lv 2 Complete the game at reality level 2 4.4%
- Reality master lv 3 Complete the game at reality level 3 3.3%
- Reality master lv 4 Complete the game at reality level 4 2.6%
- Reality master lv 5 Complete the game at reality level 5 2.2%
- Reality master lv 6 Complete the game at reality level 6 2.0%
- Perk Collector Collect max perks in one run 1.8%
- Reality master lv 7 Complete the game at reality level 7 1.8%
- Reality master lv 8 Complete the game at reality level 8 1.7%
- Reality master lv 9 Complete the game at reality level 9 1.6%
- Hardcore Reality master Complete the game at reality level 10 1.4%