When does Jurassic World Evolution 2 get good?

Give it 3 hours. In the first 2 hours almost 1 in 2 reviews are negative (41%); after 15h it's 1 in 15 (7%). Fully opens up by hour 10.

How many players finish Jurassic World Evolution 2?

38% of players who start reach the ending.

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Jurassic World Evolution 2

Nov 9, 2021 Steam: Very Positive

Give it 3 hours

Gets good by 3h almost every game dips in hours 2–3

Fully opens up by 10h rated like by long-time players

Reach the ending 38% of players who started

Started playing 84% of owners

Steam reviews 90% positive of 47,292

What the data shows

In the first 2 hours almost 1 in 2 reviews are negative (41%); after 15h it's 1 in 15 (7%).
Fully opens up by hour 10.
38% of players who start reach the ending.
Most players drop off before “Brave New World” (Complete the first Story Location): only 75% of starters get there.
84% 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 47,596 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 25h for positive, 5.5h 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 (84.2% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.

Started playing 100%
Brave New World Complete the first Story Location Most players quit here 75% −25
Washington Complete Complete the second Story Location 60% −15
Pennsylvania Done Complete the third Story Location 48% −12
Oregon Out Complete the fourth Story Location 44% −4
Entered a New Era Complete the fifth Story Location 38% −6

story milestone ending biggest drop-off

Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.

All achievements (54)

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Count Backwards from 5, 4, 3... Manually Tranquillise a Dinosaur or reptile 100%
What do we Have Here? Manually Scan a Dinosaur or reptile 94%
Brave New World Complete the first Story Location 75%
Down in the Laboratory Complete a Research Task 68%
Life Finds a Way Release a dinosaur 68%
Washington Complete Complete the second Story Location 60%
Flapped Release a Pteranodon 53%
Pennsylvania Done Complete the third Story Location 48%
This One is Special Release a genetically modified dinosaur (excluding cosmetics) 47%
Oregon Out Complete the fourth Story Location 44%
Prehistoric Perfection Complete any genome to 100% 42%
So Many Teeth Release a T. rex 40%
Entered a New Era Complete the fifth Story Location 38%
That's a lot of Dinosaurs House at least 50 live dinosaurs on a single map 37%
On the Road to Success Have at least 2000 guests in a park 36%
Starting a Collection Complete 50% of the Jurassic World Database 34%
That's No Tadpole Release a Mosasaurus 32%
This is a Modern Prehistoric Marvel Bioengineer either of the following Hybrids: Indominus Rex, Indoraptor 30%
I'm a Doctor Manually cure a Dinosaur or reptile of a disease 28%
That Wasn't Luck Hit a dinosaur or reptile with a tranquiliser dart from a distance of at least 125m 23%
Jurassic Showdown Release the following dinosaurs on a single map: Raptor, T. rex, Indominus Rex 21%
Engineer 1st Class Reach Logistics level 10 with a staff member 18%
As Light as a Feather Get 5 seconds of air time with a ground vehicle (within a 20-second window) 17%
PHD in the Field Reach Genetics level 10 with a staff member 17%
Veterinary Wonder Reach Welfare level 10 with a staff member 15%
Hold Onto Your Butts Complete Jurassic Park (Chaos Theory) 15%
Where's the Phone? Complete Isla Sorna: Site B (Chaos Theory) 12%
Quite the Challenge Complete Challenge 1 (Any difficulty) 10%
Not Making the Same Mistakes Again Complete Jurassic Park: San Diego (Chaos Theory) 9.9%
Pleasure doing business with you Buy a dinosaur from the Dinosaur Exchange 8.6%
That'll do Wrangle a Goat 8.4%
Blue is alive! Complete Return to Isla Nublar (Chaos Theory) 7.7%
Open Paddock 9! Complete Jurassic World (Chaos Theory) 7.7%
Breakthrough Genetics Complete the Biosyn Dominion Campaign 6.9%
Good Job Complete Challenge 2 (Any difficulty) 6.7%
Insurance Claim Destroy a Ranger 4x4 through reckless driving 6.4%
Clever Girl Tranquilise a dinosaur with the Intelligent trait 5.5%
You Did That? Complete Challenge 3 (Any difficulty) 5.0%
Good Aim Manually Tranquillise an escaped Flying Reptile 4.5%
Scram! Chase away a Rustler 4.4%
All Done Complete Challenge 4 (Any difficulty) 4.4%
One More for the Sticker Book Release at least one of every dinosaur genus in the game 3.7%
Glad That's Over Complete Challenge 5 (Any difficulty) 3.3%
Do-you-think-he-saurus? Complete California Challenge 1.9%
That, that was a Challenge Complete Challenge 1 (Jurassic difficulty) 1.9%
You've Done Well Complete Challenge 2 (Jurassic difficulty) 1.8%
Was That Tough? Complete Challenge 3 (Jurassic difficulty) 1.7%
I Can See Everything Complete 100% of the Jurassic World Database 1.7%
Dinosaur whisperer Rehabilitate 5 dinosaurs with Psychological Trauma 1.7%
Challenge Your Limits Complete Challenge 4 (Jurassic difficulty) 1.5%
You Call That a Challenge? Complete Challenge 5 (Jurassic difficulty) 1.5%
Head 'em up, move 'em out Wrangle 30 dinosaurs at once 1.5%
You can't engineer loyalty Reach max trust with Authorities and Underground 1.3%
Cabot Finch's dream Reach 5 stars on all Malta Campaign islands 1.2%

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