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The Tenants
The first 3 hours are a test
Gets good by 3h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Reach the ending 1% of players who started
Started playing 93% of owners
Steam reviews 79% positive of 7,792
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (49%); after 10h it's 1 in 5 (19%).
- The opening is criticised more than in 76% of games we track.
- 0% of players who start reach the ending.
- Most players drop off before “Full Feature” (Finish the game): only 0% of starters get there.
- 93% 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 7,852 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 15.5h for positive, 10.4h 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 (93.3% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Full Feature Finish the game. Most players quit here 1% −99
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (86)
story milestone ending side
- And So It Begins Complete the first job. 100%
- Still Kind Of Poor Earn $10,000 (total). 87%
- Home, Sweet Home Clean and renovate your aunt's old apartment. 79%
- Treasure Hunter Add a unique item to Storage. 79%
- Lured In Sign in the first tenant. 78%
- A Real Landlord Solve your first tenant issue. 75%
- Well Off Earn $50,000 (total). 69%
- Gotta Start Somewhere Complete 10 cleaning jobs. 62%
- Loaded Earn $100,000 (total). 61%
- Renovator Complete 10 renovation jobs. 58%
- Landlord’s Dream Buy 1 apartment. 55%
- Kill It With Gas Solve the cockroach invasion by sending in Uncle Steve. 54%
- Agent Complete 10 5-star jobs. 54%
- Rat Race Solve the rat plague by sending in Uncle Steve. 53%
- The Aftershock Survive through an earthquake. 53%
- TGIF Survive through a house party. 48%
- Run, Forrest, Run! Sign in an athlete tenant. 45%
- What’s That Smell? Sign in an alcoholic tenant. 41%
- Senpai Buy the Anime Life-Size Figure. 39%
- Filthy Rich Earn $500,000 (total). 36%
- Matchmaker House 2 tenants in a single apartment. 35%
- Better Safe Than Sorry Install additional security after a burglary. 33%
- Another One Buy 3 apartments. 33%
- Cleaning Service Complete 50 cleaning jobs. 32%
- Babysitter Complete 10 babysitting jobs. 30%
- Finders Keepers Pick up 10 respawning pickups. 28%
- Privileged Reach the second district. 25%
- Kitchen Hell Complete the restaurant job. 25%
- Drop The Beat Sign in a musician tenant. 24%
- Millionaire Earn $1,000,000 (total). 23%
- The Great Tenantsini Sign in a magician tenant. 23%
- Well, Scratch That Use the reset feature during a renovation job. 23%
- Decorator Use more than 15 different decorations in a single apartment. 21%
- Mr Clean Complete 100 cleaning jobs. 20%
- Master Agent Complete 50 5-star jobs. 19%
- Passive Income Reach $10,000 cashflow. 19%
- Master Renovator Complete 50 renovation jobs. 19%
- Face of Streaming Sign in an influencer tenant. 19%
- How Sweet Advise a tenant to watch the Karakan Twins documentary during their big date night. 18%
- Petty Bickering Intervene in a roommate dispute. 17%
- Realtor Complete 10 open house jobs. 16%
- The More The Merrier House 3 tenants in a single apartment. 15%
- I’ve Had Enough Terminate a rental agreement. 15%
- The Suburban Dream Buy the first standalone house. 13%
- Gardener Complete a job that features designing a garden room. 9.4%
- Expert Agent Complete 100 5-star jobs. 8.6%
- Botanist Buy more than 15 plants in a single apartment. 8.4%
- Double Digits Buy 10 apartments. 8.4%
- I’m On A Boat Buy the Boathouse. 8.4%
- Bookworm Complete the library renovation job. 8.3%
- Expert Renovator Complete 100 renovation jobs. 7.6%
- Texas HoldEm Complete 5 Target Cards. 6.8%
- Master Babysitter Complete 50 babysitting jobs. 6.5%
- Hold That Brush Sign in an artist tenant. 6.2%
- I Am The One Who Knocks Accept a bribe from a tenant with a suspicious business. 5.7%
- Kids Next Door Buy the Tree House. 5.5%
- Rental Bonanza House 5 tenants in a single apartment. 3.8%
- Big Apple Reach the third district. 3.3%
- Colombian Prince Buy the Slums Mansion. 2.8%
- What Taxes Sir? Reach $50,000 cashflow. 2.8%
- Raider of Wondersville Pick up 100 respawning pickups. 2.5%
- Expert Babysitter Complete 100 babysitting jobs. 2.4%
- Business Aid Rent a property to a local company. 2.4%
- Master Realtor Complete 50 open house jobs. 2.1%
- White House Sign in a politician tenant. 1.9%
- Sherlock Homes Solve the case of a missing yoghurt. 1.2%
- Sprinkle Sprinkle Little Star Successfully resolve a sprinkler malfunction issue. 1.1%
- Wondersville Magnate Buy 30 apartments. 1.1%
- Capitalist Reach $100,000 cashflow. 0.9%
- Banksy Collect the Graffiti collectible set. 0.6%
- Expert Realtor Complete 100 open house jobs. 0.6%
- Full Feature Finish the game. 0.5%
- Silicon Valley Rent a property to a company of at least 15 employees. 0.5%
- Cacti Enjoyer Collect the Cactus Mug collectible set. 0.4%
- Karakan Twins Avid Fan Collect the Karakan Twins Album collectible set. 0.4%
- Paris Glamour Select Ellie as your main worker at the end of the game. 0.4%
- Poker King Complete 50 Target Cards. 0.4%
- Unclest of the Uncles Collect the Uncle Steve Card collectible set. 0.4%
- 5G Collect the Cellphone collectible set. 0.3%
- Future Is Now, Old Man Collect the VR Headset collectible set. 0.3%
- Gotta Catch Them All Collect all collectible sets. 0.3%
- Go Team! Select Jack as your main worker at the end of the game. 0.3%
- Achievement Hunter Unlock all achievements. 0.2%
- Community Champion Complete 3 community event jobs. 0.2%
- No Retirement For You Keep Uncle Steve as your main worker at the end of the game. 0.2%
- Old Friendship Select Trevor as your main worker at the end of the game. 0.2%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-19.