IndieSimulationStrategy
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Give it 20 hours
Gets good by 20h then rated almost like by veterans
Fully opens up by 35h rated like by long-time players
Reach the ending at least 18% of players who started
Started playing 83% of owners
Steam reviews 79% positive of 17,947
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours almost 1 in 2 reviews are negative (43%); after 35h it's 1 in 9 (11%).
- Fully opens up by hour 35.
- At least 18% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “Hope Seeker” (Finish Chapter 1) and “From the Past” (Finish Chapter 2): from 77% to 48% of starters.
- 83% 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 18,046 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 300 reviews: 30.4h for positive, 14h 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 (83% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Without Breaking Some Eggs... Finish the prologue 100%
- Hope Seeker Finish Chapter 1 77% −23
- From the Past Finish Chapter 2 Most players quit here 48% −29
- What the Ruins Teach Us Finish Chapter 3 34% −13
- Pulsar Disciple Finish Chapter 4 31% −4
- Tiqqun Unchained Finish the game by emancipating yourself from DOLOS ≥18% −13
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 (57)
story milestone ending side
- Without Breaking Some Eggs... Finish the prologue 100%
- Infinite growth... Unlock a sector 95%
- Wakey Wakey Awaken a human from cryogenic sleep 91%
- Sputnik 2049 Find two large resource deposits using a single probe 85%
- Hope Seeker Finish Chapter 1 77%
- Guy de Borderlands Entertain your crew members 70%
- Space Society Implement a new decree 61%
- Ready for a New World Train your first colonists 60%
- Ain't Nobody Got Time for That Skip a transmission within 1 second of it starting 59%
- A Thousand Strong Reach 1000 population 51%
- Breaking Protocol Discover Outer Hope during the prologue 50%
- From the Past Finish Chapter 2 48%
- Permanent Redesigns Destroy 200 buildings in a single playthrough 47%
- Access Granted Use the body of Oulixes to access the Thiaki 46%
- Please Make it Stop! Have 5 accidents within a single cycle 46%
- Necessary Enhancement Use exoskeletons to ensure no crew members die on Fargo 39 44%
- Fully Recycled Convert waste into alloy, electronics or polymer 44%
- Man's Best Friend Adopt the borzoi 44%
- A Hunk of Junk Have the Tiqqun's hull integrity erode below 5% and survive 41%
- The Ship of Theseus Replace the last original piece of hull through EVA repairs 41%
- All in Good Health Build a Health Center 35%
- What the Ruins Teach Us Finish Chapter 3 34%
- Oats Free ZY6073 34%
- Exceeding Capacity Reach 3079 population 34%
- Power Outage Experience a blackout for the tenth time 34%
- Drill-dozer Have 5 Mining Ships active at the same time 32%
- Sightseeing Visit 15 planets 31%
- Sustainable Energy Build all solar panels 31%
- Pulsar Disciple Finish Chapter 4 31%
- BRAWL! Build an Exo-fighting Dome 31%
- ... in a finite world Unlock all sectors 30%
- Monotrack Drifter Have a Train Station in each of the six sectors 27%
- Catastrophe Avoided Destroy the Piranesi before it destroys a planet 23%
- Mutual Loyalty The borzoi survives the journey 21%
- Pedal to the Metal Transfer 300 resources between sectors in a single cycle 21%
- What They Hide From Us Discover the ruins of the genetic facility 20%
- In Dolos We Trust Restore the crew's trust after reaching 1% 19%
- Help of the Forgotten Member Implement the Naomi protocol 3 times 19%
- Tiqqun Unchained Finish the game by emancipating yourself from DOLOS 18%
- Delivery! Research every single upgrade for the Drone Bay 18%
- Praise the Hull! Build a Hull Temple 17%
- Space Greenhouse Reach tier 2 of the Food specialization in a sector 17%
- Tiqqun Contender Have a member of Tiqqun compose a rap song about the Administrator 15%
- Gregor Spinoza Finish the game by following the path of genetic conatus 14%
- Better Him Than Me Replace Edden with the P.A. of the Protagoras 13%
- Scientifically Accurate Reduce all audio sliders to 0 in the settings menu 9.6%
- You Had One Job... Fail to make it past the prologue 8.1%
- Remember the Dead Build a memorial in each of the six sectors 6.5%
- Work Harder Reach tier 2 of the Industry specialization in a sector 6.3%
- A Junker's Dream Reach tier 2 of the Recycling specialization in a sector 5.2%
- Soylent Green Have a Water Treatment Center in a sector with the Body Recycling decree in effect 3.6%
- Crunch Culture Have every single sector in a work status of at least "Overwork" 3.4%
- Suburban Perfection Reach tier 2 of the Population specialization in a sector 2.8%
- Scenic View Have an Observatory in each of the six sectors 2.4%
- I Give You The Stars Complete Challenge mode 2.4%
- Beyond Time and Space Finish the chain of events concerning the strange spheres 1.6%
- This is Fine Have fires in 20 buildings at the same time 1.6%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-18.