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I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival
Give it 3 hours
Gets good by 3h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 5h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 95% of owners
Steam reviews 84% positive of 4,724
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours almost 1 in 2 reviews are negative (42%); after 10h it's 1 in 8 (13%).
- Fully opens up by hour 5.
- The biggest drop-off is between “Holy Macaroni!” (Meet Earl) and “Retro Diva” (Bring Mariquinn to the roof): from 100% to 72% of starters.
- 95% 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 4,756 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 27.8h for positive, 22.2h 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 (94.8% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Holy Macaroni! Meet Earl. 100%
- Retro Diva Bring Mariquinn to the roof. Most players quit here 72% −28
- Bridge Builder Complete the bridge to the hotel roof. 51% −21
- Amusement Park Bring Prospero to the roof. 50% −1
- A Party to Remember! Throw a housewarming party with Earl, Mariquinn, and Prospero. 38% −12
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (47)
story milestone ending side
- Holy Macaroni! Meet Earl. 100%
- Uppies! Pick up a leech. 83%
- Off on an Expedition! Set out on your first expedition. 73%
- Retro Diva Bring Mariquinn to the roof. 72%
- Fisherman Catch 30 sea creatures. 58%
- Strong Signal Upgrade the Smart Tower to level 2. 56%
- Farmer Grow 20 plants in garden beds. 56%
- Weed Warrior Pull up 100 infected weeds. 53%
- Leech Lunch Let a leech eat something you planted in a garden bed. 52%
- Bridge Builder Complete the bridge to the hotel roof. 51%
- Amusement Park Bring Prospero to the roof. 50%
- Crypto Bro Spend 2000 U-Coins anywhere cryptocurrency is accepted. 49%
- WALL-E Build a minion 40%
- A Party to Remember! Throw a housewarming party with Earl, Mariquinn, and Prospero. 38%
- Design Engineer Unlock all structure blueprints at your workbench. 35%
- Tough Guy Reach the end of the housewarming party without falling unconscious a single time. 34%
- Power of the Sun Connect a solar generator and a battery on one electrical grid 31%
- Elevating Cosmopolis Fix all the elevators 27%
- Empty Shelves Buy up everything from one of the Ecomates. 25%
- Minesweeper Dig up Barbara 23%
- Energy Boost Eat an energy bar. 20%
- Bushcrafter Upgrade every tool to the maximum level 19%
- Project Runway Use customization on a minion 18%
- Hedy Lamarr Upgrade the Smart Tower to level 4 18%
- Magellan Unlock all expedition areas 16%
- Sleepyhead Sleep for 50 hours. 16%
- Banksy Paint a structure 14%
- Teleportation Build a teleporter 13%
- Nikola Tesla Charge the Beacon 11%
- A Message Make contact with Eden 11%
- How Do You Like That? Unlock all the Smart Tower modules 9.5%
- Invest in Crypto Spend 20000 U-Coins 9.3%
- Picky Eater Reach the end of the housewarming party without eating biomass a single time. 8.8%
- Spring Cleaning Disassemble every possible item on the office roof 8.5%
- Old Man Santiago Catch every type of fish 8.1%
- Pomona Sprout Grow every type of plant 7.6%
- Barista Make 10 cups of energizing coffee. 6.6%
- Cyber Shaman Change the weather 6.0%
- Jamie's Restaurant Learn every food recipe 4.1%
- Wise Consumption Buy up everything from all of the Ecomates. 3.5%
- Who's Your BFF Reach maximum friendship level with any NPC 3.5%
- Hold On, Wrong Game Wear a Dinkum Hat 3.3%
- Dataminer Enter the secret code in Audio Guide 3.1%
- Life of the Party Reach maximum friendship level with all NPCs 2.6%
- Archivist Open the entire library 2.1%
- Roofer Patch up all the holes on the roof 1.7%
- Odysseus Visit all points of interest 1.6%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-19.