Ctrl Alt Ego

When it gets good

Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.

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Based on all 815 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 296 reviews: 14.9h for positive, 3.9h 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 (78.4% 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 (45)

• I found a bug I ctrl'd a Bug 100%
• The Wrong Emu I reached the end of the Prelude 95%
• Please Insert Disk I installed a Bug program 71%
• DEBUG = 0 I stopped the debugger 38%
• Egonomical I collected all friendly Ego at a single location 34%
• I, MUM I ctrl'd that there MUM in Legacy Systems 33%
• The Bossman I broke Mr Bossman 23%
• Assembler I assembled a new Bug 23%
• Executor I left no active hostiles behind during a single chapter of the campaign (not the Prelude or the Prologue) 21%
• Merged I merged back into the Bug Free Zone 19%
• Take that thing down I defeated the Parasite 17%
• Gone but not forgotten I paid my respects 14%
• Pacifist I broke no bots during a single chapter of the campaign (not the Prelude or the Prologue) 13%
• PAM I met PAM 13%
• Conspiracy I published the incriminating evidence 13%
• Taxi! I took a taxi to The Cloud 12%
• Inner Circle I unlocked access to the Inner Circle 12%
• DEV I installed DEV 11%
• EXE I defeated The Executor 11%
• Unrealistically Marooned I reached the end of the Ctrl Alt Ego campaign and bore witness to the best ending in a game ever 11%
• Total Assembler I fully assembled a new Bug using all the bits 9.4%
• I, Parasite I ctrl'd the Parasite 8.8%
• Programmatic I installed all available Bug programs during a single run of the campaign 7.3%
• Loyal I brought Bug 0 with me to confront the Parasite 5.7%
• Clean Sweep I collected all Ego, Worms, Disks and MEM at a single location 5.2%
• Unidentified I remained unidentified during a single chapter of the campaign (not the Prelude or the Prologue) 5.1%
• Stealthy Emu I reached the end of the Prelude without having been identified and without breaking any bots 4.5%
• Chicken.EXE I left The Executor in charge at Conscious Robot Services 3.6%
• Disk Full I fully WORMed a single Bug program 3.2%
• Ghost.EXE I defeated The Executor by running a kill script from his PC without him ever knowing I was there 2.9%
• No Breakpoints I completed the entire campaign without Bug 22 ever being broken 1.9%
• Strict Mode I completed the entire campaign without lowering the difficulty under 'Strict' 1.7%
• Assembler Avoider I reached the Merging Station without assembling a new Bug 1.5%
• On a mission I completed 3 missions outside of the campaign 1.4%
• Replete I fed every single Bug to GOD at The Cloud. All 8 of them. (Bug 22 is the 9th) 1.3%
• Chicken I found a way to skip the Parasite 1.0%
• LAN? What LAN? I made it through the Legacy Systems firewall without signing in to the LAN 0.9%
• Conscious robots are people too I completed the entire campaign without breaking a single conscious robot 0.9%
• Virtual I completed the entire campaign without ever being identified (except by Mr Bossman during the prologue, but that doesn't count) 0.9%
• Severely Advanced Rocket Surgery I completed the mission 'Advanced Rocket Surgery' on Severe difficulty 0.8%
• Faster than MindThunk I stopped the debugger faster than the developer of this game. Time to beat is 3 minutes flat. 0.8%
• Entirely Pure Virtual I completed the entire campaign at moderate or higher difficulty without being identified and without having broken a single conscious robot 0.8%
• They got what they deserved I left no hostile robot active anywhere throughout the entire campaign 0.6%
• Towering I resolved the issue with the Big Fat Crate at THE TOWER (mission) 0.5%
• Program Not Found I completed the entire campaign without installing a single Bug program (I may have collected disks, I just never installed any programs) 0.5%