AdventureIndie
Loco Motive
Give it 7 hours
Gets good by 7h then rated almost like by veterans
Fully opens up by 10h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 93% of owners
Steam reviews 93% positive of 1,338
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 5 reviews are negative (21%); after 10h it's 1 in 25 (4%).
- Fully opens up by hour 10.
- Few early reviews, so this is a rough estimate.
- 93% 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 1,350 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 300 reviews: 9.7h for positive, 6.8h 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 (92.7% 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 (33)
- I Can Break These Cuffs! Solved the first puzzle 100%
- Prologue Started the Prologue 100%
- Part One Started Part One 83%
- Part Two Started Part Two 70%
- I Need A Hint! Called the Dirk Chiselton Hotline 65%
- Part Three Started Part Three 56%
- Signed! Convinced the publishers to accept your pitch 53%
- Bridge Buff Sided with Hagen 51%
- Arthur Ackerman, Attorney At Law Introduced yourself to every character in the Prologue 48%
- If You Can’t Handle The Heat… Successfully pulled off a sabotage 47%
- Part Four Started Part Four 46%
- Tunnel Head Sided with Gunter 45%
- Democracy Manifest! Held a successful vote 43%
- Swallowed Your Pride Used the Dirk Chiselton Hotline as Herman 43%
- Part Five Started Part Five 42%
- Part Six Started Part Six 41%
- With Our Powers Combined! Unlocked all three characters 41%
- Tunnel Vision Used a tunnel to your advantage 41%
- Finale Started the Finale 40%
- Plumbed New Depths Successfully removed a blockage 40%
- The Truth Hurts Revealed the killer 39%
- The End Completed Loco Motive 39%
- Lord Unterwald Learned the history of Lord Unterwald 39%
- Fan Friction Crushed the doctor's dreams 37%
- Foggy Memory Failed a game of hide-and-seek 33%
- Sealed The Deal Recorked Don’s champagne! 28%
- Cheeses For Us Meeces Fed the mouse an entire block of cheese 24%
- The Golden Canary Helped Susanne warm up her vocals 18%
- Intern-ment Got Jimmy in trouble 18%
- Herman Merman, Detective Extraordinaire! Flashed your badge to five passengers 14%
- Kitchen Nightmares Taunted Remy with the mouse 11%
- Who Turned Out The Lights? Tried to read Lady Unterwald’s letter in the dark 11%
- Respect Your Elders! Received a scolding from Lady Unterwald 6.4%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-20.