Ratropolis
Give it 3 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours almost 1 in 2 reviews are negative (41%); after 10h it's 1 in 11 (9%).
- 63% of players who start reach the ending.
- Most players drop off before “Navigator” (Win a game): only 63% of starters get there.
- 89% 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 5,593 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 18.3h for positive, 5.7h 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 (89.4% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Navigator Win a game Most players quit here 63% −37
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (46)
story milestone ending side
- General Play 1 game 100%
- Wanderer Your first defeat 100%
- Builder Survive the 10th Wave 94%
- Scientist Survive the 20th Wave 86%
- Navigator Win a game 63%
- Rats Rats Rats Have more than 100 Ratizens 62%
- Strongest Rat Use the Royal Guard Card 61%
- Shaman Play 10 game 54%
- Military City Achieve victory as the General Leader 51%
- Quack-Quack Use the Duck Card 50%
- Let's Keep It See the [Rules of Rats] Event 47%
- Metropolis Achieve victory as the Builder Leader 41%
- Life of Bureaucrat See the [A New Role] Event 40%
- Follow Me See the [All Hail!] Event 39%
- Time to Pray See the [Be Faithful] Event 37%
- Trading City Achieve victory as the Merchant Leader 35%
- Hard Worker Use your Leader Ability more than 30 times in one game 35%
- Great Leader Acquire more than 10 Advisers in one game 34%
- Old Rat's Wisdom See the [Council of Oligarchs] Event 33%
- Give Me All Purchase every card sold by Merchant 29%
- World's End Expand to the maximum extent possible 27%
- Millionaire Hold 99999 Gold 27%
- Scrooge Achieve victory without spending any Golds for Redraw. 27%
- Game of Thrones See the [Coronation] Event 25%
- Harbor City Achieve victory as the Navigator Leader 24%
- Science City Achieve victory as the Scientist Leader 23%
- Religious City Achieve victory as the Shaman Leader 21%
- Oops Beat the final boss before he attacks 15%
- Under the Shade Achieve victory with only 4 or less Defensive Walls. 14%
- Level Up Reach Leader Level 10 in a game 14%
- Shiny Chest! Intentionally disregard 5 Treasure Chests in a game. 13%
- Why did you do that? Win the game without upgrading any cards 11%
- Nightmare Survive 60th Wave 11%
- Wasteland Complete Pollution Level 10 9.3%
- Lazybones Achieve victory without using your Leader Ability 7.9%
- Mafia Kill one unit that carries 999 Bounty. 7.9%
- Fair And Square Achieve victory without using non-melee military units 7.9%
- I'm in Charge Win a game with only one Advisor 6.8%
- Slayers Acquire the advisers "Ironclad", "Silent", and "Defect" in one game 5.9%
- Hell Survive 90th Wave 4.6%
- The Rat God Win with every Leader in every Region 3.6%
- Plaguelands Complete Pollution Level 20 2.7%
- Torment Survive 120th Wave 2.6%
- Calculator Achieve victory with maintaining your Gold under 1,000. 2.3%
- Madness Win the game in under 22 minutes 1.5%
- Glory Obtain all other Achievements 0.8%