SimulationStrategy
Cataclismo
Give it 2 hours
Gets good by 2h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 4h rated like by long-time players
Reach the ending 5% of players who started
Started playing 78% of owners
Steam reviews 88% positive of 4,407
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 4 reviews are negative (28%); after 10h it's 1 in 11 (9%).
- Fully opens up by hour 4.
- 5% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “Home Is Calling” (Complete the opening level on any difficulty) and “We Will Rebuild”: from 100% to 65% of starters.
- 78% 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 4,452 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 300 reviews: 21.9h for positive, 10.6h 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 (77.8% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Home Is Calling Complete the opening level on any difficulty 100%
- We Will Rebuild Complete 'the Forest Garrison' on any difficulty Most players quit here 65% −35
- Following A Lost Trail... Complete 'Lost Pages' on any difficulty 44% −21
- Horror Of Horrors Complete 'Downpour' on any difficulty 27% −17
- Fate Is A Dark Comedy Complete 'the Defense of Hogar' on any difficulty 18% −9
- Reunited Complete 'Into the Depths' on any difficulty 10% −8
- The Rectora's Secret Complete 'Memorial' on any difficulty 7% −3
- Tell Stories Of This Day Complete the final level on any difficulty 5% −2
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (43)
story milestone ending side
- Home Is Calling Complete the opening level on any difficulty 100%
- Bug Squasher Kill 100 horrors during campaign 90%
- Brickie Place 150 stone pieces 87%
- We Will Rebuild Complete 'the Forest Garrison' on any difficulty 65%
- Rat Catcher Kill 1000 horrors during campaign 52%
- Foreman Place 1000 stone pieces 49%
- Lost Words Discover a lost page from an ill-fated expedition 44%
- Following A Lost Trail... Complete 'Lost Pages' on any difficulty 44%
- The Order A-Fails Lose any level during campaign 43%
- Crush Hour Kill 50 horrors under collapsing pieces 32%
- Tower Defender Complete an optional defense level on any difficulty 30%
- Skim Reading Acquire one skill for Iris and one upgrade for the Citadel using the Book of Insight 27%
- Horror Of Horrors Complete 'Downpour' on any difficulty 27%
- Revivalist Witness Iris return to the Citadel from the brink of death 22%
- Master Architect Place 5000 stone pieces 18%
- Fate Is A Dark Comedy Complete 'the Defense of Hogar' on any difficulty 18%
- Creator Create and save a level in Creative Mode 17%
- Professional Exterminator Kill 10000 horrors during campaign 13%
- I Can See My Shack From Up Here! Deploy a unit 25m from the ground 13%
- A Towering Achievement Complete every optional defense level on any difficulty 12%
- Metropolis Reach maximum Prosperity in a city-building level 11%
- Reunited Complete 'Into the Depths' on any difficulty 10%
- The Rectora's Secret Complete 'Memorial' on any difficulty 7.1%
- Untouchable Complete a city-building level on Hard without losing any units 7.1%
- Fight Swarm With Swarm Have 55 units at your command during a city-building level 6.9%
- Where There's A Will... Find a familiar backpack... 6.6%
- Feathered Friend Pet Hermes 10 times 6.2%
- Self Improvement Acquire all skills for Iris from the Book of Insight 5.1%
- Lost And Found Discover all lost pages from Aura's expedition 4.9%
- Tell Stories Of This Day Complete the final level on any difficulty 4.8%
- Architecture Degree Acquire all Citadel upgrades from the Book of Insight 4.6%
- ECHO, Echo, echo.... Summon 15 echoes during a level 3.7%
- Rectora Earn the highest Expedition rank during campaign 3.0%
- You Can Pause, Y'Know Complete a city-building level without pausing 2.3%
- Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker... Complete a city-building level with at least one building of each type 2.3%
- Legend Complete all campaign levels on Hard difficulty 1.3%
- Wood You Kindly Complete an optional defense level on Medium or higher without using Stone pieces 1.3%
- La La La Can't Hear You Kill 5 Sirenas during campaign 0.9%
- Goddess Complete all campaign levels on Extreme difficulty 0.6%
- Skirmisher Complete all skirmish levels on any difficulty 0.6%
- The Order A-Wails Lose a soldier to a fall into the Depths 0.6%
- Party Of Misfits Create a squad of Hogardian units with at least one unit of each type 0.5%
- Berserker Complete all skirmish levels on Extreme difficulty 0.3%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-19.