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Deliver Us Mars
Give it 7 hours
Gets good by 7h then rated almost like by veterans
Reach the ending 51% of players who started
Started playing 87% of owners
Steam reviews 75% positive of 3,048
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (53%); after 7h it's 1 in 6 (17%).
- The opening is criticised more than in 82% of games we track.
- 51% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “Home Is...” (Witnessed your father leaving without you) and “Moonbear”: from 100% to 87% of starters.
- 87% 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 3,069 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 298 reviews: 10.2h for positive, 6.6h 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 (86.9% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Home Is... Witnessed your father leaving without you. 100%
- Moonbear Safely launched Zephyr-III. Mission Opera is a go! Most players quit here 87% −13
- Want to Go to Space? Travelled space and time to get to your destination. 82% −5
- On the Precipice Took control of ARK Labos and reached the Martian surface. Alone. 75% −7
- A Nice Place to Live Acquired a rover and new insights into your father. 70% −5
- The Dream for These Folks Discovered the vital technology inside ARK Habitas and Mission Opera's secret objective. 65% −5
- Not the Rabbits, Not the Bees Learned the discouraging truth about Odum's sign of life and your father's deepest flaws. 62% −3
- Like Animals Uncovered Outward's gruesome fate and saw your only means of returning home dissipate. 59% −2
- Desperate Times Reconnected the ARKs, found your father's final message, and abandoned Mission Opera to find him. 58% −1
- Wants and Needs Located the Unison settlement and your father, opposed his true intentions, and captured ARK Vita. 55% −2
- Delivered Us Mars Took your father and the ARKs back home. 51% −4
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (33)
story milestone ending side
- Home Is... Witnessed your father leaving without you. 100%
- Better jot that down Collect first scannable. 93%
- The beginning of a beautiful collection Found your first comic. 92%
- Moonbear Safely launched Zephyr-III. Mission Opera is a go! 87%
- Getting the hang of it Earned your climbing badge, ready to climb yourself out of any predicament. 82%
- Want to Go to Space? Travelled space and time to get to your destination. 82%
- Reading is fundamental Read your first AstroTalk. 81%
- Take a look Watched your first hologram. 80%
- On the Precipice Took control of ARK Labos and reached the Martian surface. Alone. 75%
- A Nice Place to Live Acquired a rover and new insights into your father. 70%
- The Dream for These Folks Discovered the vital technology inside ARK Habitas and Mission Opera's secret objective. 65%
- Not the Rabbits, Not the Bees Learned the discouraging truth about Odum's sign of life and your father's deepest flaws. 62%
- Like Animals Uncovered Outward's gruesome fate and saw your only means of returning home dissipate. 59%
- Desperate Times Reconnected the ARKs, found your father's final message, and abandoned Mission Opera to find him. 58%
- Wants and Needs Located the Unison settlement and your father, opposed his true intentions, and captured ARK Vita. 55%
- Delivered Us Mars Took your father and the ARKs back home. 51%
- Piecing the story together Completed your first story profile. 50%
- Cinephile Watched all holograms. 42%
- Stellar extra-vehicular activities score Detached the thruster and made it back within 3 minutes and 35 seconds after egressing the airlock. 31%
- Kat-like reflexes Made it through the Tesla Chambers without taking damage. 27%
- When ACE met AYLA ACE and AYLA have been very good friends for years, but fear syncing would ruin the friendship. 25%
- The Gang Seems like this Leander really loved his old team back on Earth. 13%
- Kats always land on their feet Reached the elevator below in Herschel within 2 minutes after surveying the quarry. 8.7%
- As the story unfolds... Completed four story profiles. 8.5%
- Who waits five minutes, seriously? Fine, you win this achievement. 5.6%
- Peruser Read all AstroTalks. 5.5%
- Pannapictagraphist Collected all comics. 4.9%
- Chronicler Scanned all objects of interest. 4.9%
- Quick like a Kat Traversed the icy plains and enter Odum within 3 minutes and 15 seconds after surveying the base. 4.7%
- Curiosity didn't kill the Kat Completed all eight story profiles. 4.7%
- Shai-Hulud? Did you just spot a big, big worm, here on Mars? Must be a hallucination... 4.7%
- Simulacrum Those birds really tied the dome together. 4.6%
- Their batteries were low and it got dark Found all NASA rovers on the Red Planet! 4.3%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-19.