Little Kitty, Big City
Hooks you almost right away
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 9 reviews are negative (11%); after 5h it's 1 in 70 (1%).
- Fully opens up by hour 5.
- The opening is criticised less than in 89% of games we track.
- 53% of players who start reach the ending.
- Most players drop off before “Home Sweet Home!” (Find your way back home): only 53% of starters get there.
- 90% 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 14,153 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 293 reviews: 7.7h for positive, 5.6h 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 (90.1% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Home Sweet Home! Find your way back home Most players quit here 53% −47
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (39)
story milestone ending side
- Decluttering Smash 10 items 100%
- And Stay Out! Get kicked out of a store 90%
- Can't Stop The Feelings Use an emote 90%
- Snack Time! Get your first yummy fish 83%
- Industrial Artist Leave your pawprints in the wet concrete 79%
- Snap Happy! Get your very own camera 75%
- Cat-Like Reflexes Capture a bird in flight 71%
- Quack Troops! Collect all the ducklings 65%
- Trip Hazard Make 20 humans stumble 65%
- To Me, To You! Get a human to kick a ball to you 64%
- Fin-tastic! Eat all the yummy fish 61%
- What Sweet Music Meow 10 times in a row 55%
- Give A Dog A Bone Bring bones to all the dogs 55%
- Home Sweet Home! Find your way back home 53%
- Surprise! Knock a human over by jumping on them 50%
- Hello Everyone! Meet all the animals 49%
- Fat Cat Find 200 Shinies 45%
- Dumpster Diving Investigate 10 trash cans 45%
- Cult Of Purr-sonality Get petted 10 times 44%
- Who Needs Cash? Use your noggin on the soda machine 43%
- World Traveler Open all Tanuki's portals 42%
- No Parking! Splash paint on the fancy car 42%
- Cat Napper Sleep in all the cozy nap spots 40%
- Back Of The Net Score every soccer goal 34%
- Killer Kitty Chase a human with a dangerous item 34%
- Big Kitty, Little City This must be how Gecku feels all the time! Raaaaaaaah! 34%
- Smash Hit Break 100 objects 30%
- Bird Botherer Catch (and release!) 20 birds 30%
- If I Fits, I Sits Enjoy 5 cardboard boxes 29%
- Neighborhood Hero Complete all items on your To-Do list 29%
- Capped Crusader Collect all the hats 25%
- Sticky Business Bust all the old birds' nests 22%
- Fruit Fall Make a human slip on a banana 22%
- Papa-cat-zi Take 20 photos with your camera 22%
- Checkmate! Remove all the chess pieces from the board 21%
- Rub-A-Dub-Dub! Put 4 rubber ducks in the pond 17%
- Splish! Drop a phone into the portapotty 15%
- Litter Picker Recycle 100 items 13%
- Local Celebrity Get photographed 20 times 12%