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Give it 20 hours
Gets good by 20h then rated almost like by veterans
Started playing 64% of owners
Steam reviews 72% positive of 929
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (47%); after 20h it's 1 in 6 (16%).
- Only 64% 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 940 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 296 reviews: 8.4h for positive, 4.8h 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 (63.5% 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 (11)
- Native Machine Code Achieve 90% efficiency when successfully completing a campaign level 100%
- Experimental Feature Create a Test Site kitchen 23%
- Overclocked Have a machine on fire 14%
- Machine Learning Complete all 5 tutorial levels 9.3%
- Malware Deliver a dish with salmonella 6.0%
- Bug Fixing Eradicate an insect infestation 4.3%
- Making a Statement Complete 5 contracts on hard difficulty 4.3%
- Data Centre Successfully complete a campaign level using at least one Order Reader, one Counting Machine and one Repeater 3.8%
- Trusted Source Reach 100% reputation in Contracts Mode 3.8%
- Commit and Push Publish a custom scenario to the Steam Workshop 2.8%
- Code Complete Complete all campaign levels 2.4%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-20.