SimulationStrategy
Desynced
Give it 2 hours
Gets good by 2h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 15h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 11% of owners
Steam reviews 79% positive of 2,075
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (46%); after 15h it's 1 in 6 (16%).
- Fully opens up by hour 15.
- Only 11% of owners have even the first achievement — the rest barely played.
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 2,099 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 27.7h for positive, 20.4h 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 (11.3% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
Story milestones aren't labeled yet; all achievements are listed below.
All achievements (28)
- Infected Get Infected with a virus 100%
- Sim-ple Truths Construct a Re-Simulator 75%
- Human Discovery Discover Human Technology 50%
- Pest Control Defeat 1000 bugs 27%
- Alien Discovery Discover Alien Technology 24%
- Spaaaace Launch a Satellite 24%
- Rainbow Research Discover all Technology trees 24%
- Elevator to where? Discover the Elevator 24%
- Metalhead Mine 1,000,000 metal ore 20%
- A Way Home Repair the Mothership 17%
- Shots Fired Making an Enemy of the Aliens 14%
- Rebooting Reset the frontend 13%
- Efficient Produce a Global Efficiency Module 12%
- Crystal Clear Mine 1,000,000 crystal 11%
- Don't puzzle me Solving a Ruin with an Infected Circuit Board 11%
- Deja Vu Spawn a new away team 11%
- Heart of the machine Discover the Simulator 8.0%
- Valuable Asset Activate Simulator with full stability 7.1%
- Nothing beats Home Grown Create your own Resource Node 6.2%
- The bigger they are... Kill a Gigakaiju 5.3%
- Escape! Escape the Simulation 4.4%
- I have the power Produce 1,000,000 power 4.4%
- New Challenger! Complete a challenge map 3.5%
- Tile Trial Uncover 1,000,000 tiles 3.5%
- Hack the planet Hack 10 units 2.7%
- Are we the bad guys? Activate Simulator with full instability 2.7%
- Reformed Reform an Alien unit 2.7%
- Portable Disposal Feed the Trilobyte 2.7%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-20.