When does Not For Broadcast get good?

Give it 4 hours. In the first 2 hours 1 in 7 reviews are negative (14%); after 7h it's 1 in 35 (3%). Fully opens up by hour 7.

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Not For Broadcast

Jan 25, 2022 Steam: Very Positive

Give it 4 hours

Gets good by 4h then rated almost like by veterans

Fully opens up by 7h rated like by long-time players

Started playing 83% of owners

Steam reviews 94% positive of 12,740

What the data shows

In the first 2 hours 1 in 7 reviews are negative (14%); after 7h it's 1 in 35 (3%).
Fully opens up by hour 7.
The opening is criticised less than in 85% of games we track.
The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
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 12,884 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 300 reviews: 9.7h for positive, 3.7h 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 (83.3% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.

This game has no story achievements, so we can't tell where players quit.

All achievements (95)

story milestone ending side

Dave's Apprentice Complete your first Broadcast. 100%
Happy Holidays! Agree to pay for your Daughter's Holiday. 54%
Family Loyalties Give away your Passport. 52%
Middle Of The Road Stay neutral. 47%
Screw the 1% Keep your Passport. 47%
Foresight Don't play the "Mr Snugglehugs" Advert. 47%
Love's Labours Hugged Complete the Lockdown Broadcast. 44%
Consequences Play the "Mr Snugglehugs" Advert. 41%
Nice Broadcast! Get an A+ for any Broadcast. 41%
If At First You Don't Overachieve Replay any Sequence. 40%
Peeking Behind The Curtain Watch a Broadcast back in the Rushes Room. 38%
Always A Buck To Be Made... See how a professional Sophia Rymmington adapts to the Lockdown. 38%
Feel The Music Max out the boost in any Rhythm Editing section. 36%
Let's Make Tomorrow Better Complete the Broadcast on Day 371. 26%
Very Advanced Align with the Advance Agenda. 25%
Strength To Strength Make the Noticeboard's first show a success. 24%
The Man Behind The Hood Introduce Disrupt's spokesman to the nation. 24%
Damn I'm Good Watch one of your own Broadcasts. 23%
Family Away From Home Learn about David Wolfe. 21%
Maybe Next Year Don't pay for your Daughter to go on Holiday. 21%
A Change Of Scenery Move out of the family home. 19%
The Bigger They Are... Witness the successful execution of Disrupt's plan. 19%
You Either Die A Hero... See a man's retirement from the newsroom. 18%
Fancy Work Get an A+ for three different Broadcasts. 17%
A Peaceful Night See a man stand up for his beliefs until the end. 16%
The Island of San Palmarino Learn what a wild child does when her company faces crisis. 15%
A Final Disruption Experience Disrupt's return with a familiar face. 15%
The Bumliest Of Times Meet the Mayor of Bumley at the Red Carpet. 13%
Dangerous Language Censor all of J-Zuss' new song. 13%
Ashes To Ashes Meet Helena Canterbury-Boatshoe at the Red Carpet. 12%
#Not My Clothes Don't promote Li'l C's clothing line. 11%
Someone Else's Job Leave Disrupt's introduction to a different station. 8.9%
A Youth Club Too Far? After refusing to sign your son up for the Go-Getters, Sam signs him up anyway. 8.5%
A Sinister Subconscious Experience the macabre dream for the Lockdown Broadcast. 7.8%
A Bannon Year Complete The Telethon. 7.6%
A Crazy Deal From Crazy Neil Meet Neil at the Red Carpet. 7.4%
It Ends Today See Disrupt fall to Advance's New Future. 7.4%
SURprisingly It's REAL Experience the surreal dream for the Lockdown Broadcast. 6.7%
The New Future? Welcome in a more Advanced future. 6.0%
Family Orientated Bring the whole Winston family to the New Future and beyond. 4.2%
A Poor Pilot Hinder the Noticeboard's premiere showing. 3.8%
How Disruptive Rally against Advance's Establishment. 3.8%
Forwards, Together Watch life on your street get Better. 3.8%
Chippy's Lighter See a familiar trinket on the news. 3.6%
I Think I Felt A Chill Complete the Live & Spooky Bannon Special. 3.4%
Holly Jolly Christmas... Fight with Chris at Christmas. 3.4%
Dave's Debut DLC Complete the intended path of Peter Clement's episode of Bits Of Your Life. 2.9%
A Deadly Comeuppance Suffer the wrath of a vengeful spirit. 2.9%
I Am Laurence, Hear Me Blunder Have Laurence Blunderclatch rant at the NNN. 2.5%
Wibbly Wobbly... ...Timey Wimey stuff. Get stuck in time. 2.5%
An Eamon Episode Drive Peter Clement's episode of Bits Of Your Life off the rails. 2.4%
The Only Way Is Through Make every attempt to sabotage the Night of Smiles. 2.3%
A Possession To Remember Establish Cecil Sloane's perilous past. 2.2%
Both Sides Of The Coin View both versions of the Lockdown Broadcast's Go-Getters Advert. 2.2%
A Convoluted Code Solve Dr Magnus' combination lock to the Relay Device. 2.2%
Don't Touch Me! Keep playing with the SpiritJammer after Dianne tells you not to. 1.9%
Convention Of The Desperate Invite all the available guests onto the Night of Smiles. 1.9%
Starcrossed Lovers Uncover the identity of Dr Magnus' romantic focus. 1.8%
Time: Looped Escape the Timeloop. 1.8%
A Pissed Peter Clement Ensure Peter Clement has one too many drinks or is angered one too many times. 1.7%
Where Art Thou? Reunite Peter Clement with his brother. 1.7%
A Fall From Grace? Discover the cause of the falling stunt man. 1.7%
A Burning Question Solve the mystery of the unfortunate fire. 1.7%
Just You & The Bose Man ...Find yourself somewhere you're really not meant to be. 1.7%
Tis But A Scratch Ensure Peter Clement ends up in a fist fight. 1.6%
An Origin Story Find out how a man goes from TV icon to Prime Minister. 1.6%
Credit Where It's Due Put Marie Murphy's ghost to rest. 1.6%
A Wallet Full Of Treasure Determine the fate of Brent Backflip. 1.6%
Close But No Cu-gar Miscalculate the atomic weight for the combination lock. 1.6%
Blasts From The Past Watch all the Adverts in Bits Of Your Life. 1.4%
Agent Of Chaos Prove an extreme disregard for the schedule of Bits Of Your Life. 1.4%
Truth And Consequence Make Peter Clement face his demons. 1.4%
My Festival's Absolute Fyre Advertise a new campaign to make Flards more attractive to the public. 1.4%
It's A Mime Round! Play through the final round of Sportsboard with no audio. 1.4%
Who Needs A Fourth Wall Witness the initial pitch of the writers of the Timeloop. 1.4%
All The Bits Of His Life Complete all the specific endings of Peter Clement's episode of Bits Of Your Life. 1.3%
The Funniest Man In The Country Watch Jimmy Chizzle do what he does best. 1.2%
A Disruptive Payout Receive an anonymous payment from some new friends. 1.2%
Sole Survivor Be the only living member of the Winston family. 1.2%
You Call That A Challenge? Play each of the 5 different challenge types. 1.1%
Mash Pit Headbang along to the infamous Potato rap. 1.1%
Close But No Cigar Help Holly uncover the ghost's grievance without solving the mystery. 1.1%
An Advanced Warning Bring Suzie home from holiday. 1.1%
The Boss That Could Have Been View all three versions of Boseman's Lockdown Educational Video. 1.1%
A Fiery Resistance Aid Disrupt on the Night of Fire. 1.1%
What A Trip Visit each different Multiverse studio. 1.1%
Now You're Gettin' It Complete 5 custom challenges. 1.0%
Pro Star To Pro Flop Tank Tommy Harris' career. 1.0%
What Goes Around Comes Around... Have to contribute to the Assets and Wealth Tax. 1.0%
Hurting For More Complete any sequence with all 5 challenge types enabled at once. 0.8%
Nice Penmanship Get Boseman to fill his notebook. 0.8%
I Can't Believe You've Done This Complete 5 different sequences with all 5 challenge types enabled at once. 0.7%
A Bolt Of Inspiration Survive 100 electric shocks on any challenge and still complete it. 0.7%
Final This Play through one of the finales with at least 3 challenges enabled. 0.7%
Employee Of The Month Unlock every reward in the Challenge Room. 0.6%

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