When does Peglin get good?

Give it 3 hours. In the first 2 hours 1 in 3 reviews are negative (31%); after 10h it's 1 in 7 (15%). The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.

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Peglin

Aug 27, 2024 Steam: Very Positive

Give it 3 hours

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

Started playing 90% of owners

Steam reviews 84% positive of 17,754

What the data shows

In the first 2 hours 1 in 3 reviews are negative (31%); after 10h it's 1 in 7 (15%).
The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
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 17,900 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 298 reviews: 17.7h for positive, 18.9h 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 (89.6% 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 (52)

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Math Is My Passion Deal the exact damage needed to defeat an enemy 100%
Holey Moley Defeat Avogadro, the Mole Boss 94%
It Was Not Your Time Leave an enemy with just one health point 93%
End Of The Slime Defeat the Slime Boss 91%
All In All Defeat the Demon Wall 81%
Siege No More Defeat the Ballista Militia 79%
I Said Punny, Not Puny Deal exactly one damage 79%
Spring Cleaning Fully clear a pegboard 71%
Won't Get Ruined Again Defeat the Qaballistic Ruins 67%
Sapper Sweeper Defeat the Super Sapper 60%
New Leshy on Life Defeat Betsy the Leshy 58%
Wood you kindly? Defeat Avogadro's Tree before entering the Castle 53%
The Treasurer Doesn't Measure Up Vanquish Thesaurosus the Avaricious Dragon 51%
Slime After Slime Have an orb bounce between slimed pegs 7 times without touching anything else 47%
Don't Make Us Say It Deal more than 9000 damage in one shot 45%
Is this a card game? Collect your first monster trading card 43%
Masterpieces In Pieces Defeat the Pigment of Imagination 42%
First Come, First Served Defeat any boss on the first turn 39%
Poison IV Inflict 40+ Spinfection onto a single enemy 35%
Cruciball Courier Complete Cruciball Level 5 29%
At the End of the Rainbow Defeat a Rainbow Slime 28%
Ballwark in a China Shop Win a battle with 100+ Ballwark remaining 28%
Walking On Pegshells Hit 1000 pegs or more in one shot 28%
Multiballer Using the Matryorbshka, have 16 multiballs on screen at once 22%
Red Slime Green Slime Keep an enemy Tangled for 6 turns 19%
Critical Thinking Achieve a 5x crit multiplier with the Critsomallos Fleece 17%
A Full Sweep Battle the Ballista Militia until all its minions have spawned 15%
Minion to Winion Deal 1000 damage to the Super Sapper in one battle by detonating adjacent Sappers 15%
Cruciball Captain Complete Cruciball Level 10 12%
Scholorb Completely fill one entry in the Encirclepedia's Bestiary 10%
Sticks And Stones Die during an event scenario 9.9%
Some Assembly Required Fully assemble the Assemball 8.9%
Not a Dull Wall at All Convert or Destroy 3 dull pegs while fighting the Demon Wall 8.4%
Surprised the Ruins Defeat all 4 Qaballistic Ruins in the same turn 7.9%
Fragile Delivery Bring an Egg to the peglin chef 5.1%
Cruciball Commander Complete Cruciball Level 15 5.0%
Art Connoisseur Defeat the Pigment of Imagination without destroying any paintings 4.5%
Master Burglar Defeat Thesaurosus with no coins remaining in the pegboard 4.4%
All Eye On You Defeat the Orbserver of Radia 3.9%
Taste the Painbow Defeat the Painbow (slime) 3.8%
From Whence You Came Send a summoned demon squirrel into a black hole 2.6%
Heartburn Throw a Rigged Bomb after being eaten by the Slime Boss 2.5%
Where's my membership card?! Buy every item and relic, and remove an orb at Haglin's Shop at Cruciball Level 10 or higher 2.3%
Cruciball Conqueror Complete Cruciball Level 20 2.2%
You did it? Die while defeating the Mines' boss 2.1%
Phase Breaker End the first phase of the Orbserver battle early by destroying all of its protective crystal pegs 2.0%
In a Prickle Get three Bramballs stuck in Leshy's vines at the same time 1.9%
Eggstravaganza Win a run with two eggs in your satchel 1.8%
One for All Win a run with only level 1 orbs 1.8%
Enthralled Win a run after accepting the vampire's deal but skipping the infernal ingot. 1.7%
All for One Win a run with only your class relic 0.6%
Egg On Your Face Apply Yolk to the Observer 0.3%

Steam page Updated: 2026-10-18.