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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection

Q: When does Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection get good?

Give it 3 hours. In the first 2 hours 1 in 4 reviews are negative (23%); after 3h it's 1 in 16 (6%). Only 21% of owners have even the first achievement — the rest barely played.

Aug 30, 2022 Steam: Very Positive

Give it 3 hours

Gets good by 3h almost every game dips in hours 2–3

Started playing 21% of owners

Steam reviews 88% positive of 1,048

What the data shows

In the first 2 hours 1 in 4 reviews are negative (23%); after 3h it's 1 in 16 (6%).
Only 21% 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 1,059 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 292 reviews: 4.7h for positive, 1.6h 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 (21.4% 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 (13)

Heroes in a Half Shell Finish Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Arcade) 100%
Callback Finish Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time (Arcade) 74%
Totally Tubular Time Travel Finish Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time (SN) 37%
Sewer’s Four Finish Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist (GEN) 30%
Pizza Party! Finish Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game (N) 28%
I Have Become Turtle, Eater of Pizzas Finish Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project (N) 28%
Waiting for the other Foot to Drop Finish Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan (GB) 27%
Shredding the Shredder Finish Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (N) 22%
Back Into Action Finish Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Back from the Sewers (GB) 19%
N Tournament Champion Defeat Shredder in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters’ Story Mode (N) 19%
S Tournament Champion Defeat Karai in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters’ Story Battle (SN) 18%
Gnarly Greatness Finish Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: Radical Rescue (GB) 15%
G Tournament Champion Defeat the real Karai in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters’ 1 Player Mode (GEN) 14%

Steam page Updated: 2026-10-20.