Plan B: Terraform
Give it 3 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours almost 1 in 3 reviews are negative (29%); after 10h it's 1 in 20 (5%).
- Fully opens up by hour 10.
- 8% of players who start reach the ending.
- Most players drop off before “Plan B successful” (Reach 1M global population): only 8% of starters get there.
- 72% 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 3,752 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 297 reviews: 28.8h for positive, 7.3h 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 (72.5% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Plan B successful Reach 1M global population. Most players quit here 8% −92
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (28)
story milestone ending side
- Extracting Create your first container. 100%
- Trucks! Build your first truck. 84%
- Repopulating Have your first new inhabitant. 81%
- Warming up Warm your planet by 1°C. 63%
- A better world Recycle your first container 54%
- I like trains Build your first train. 51%
- Water Have some liquid water on your world. 40%
- Life always finds a way Have a tree grow naturally. 28%
- Container Ships! Build your first container ship. 9.9%
- Far from home Find the secret UFO. 9.4%
- Plan B successful Reach 1M global population. 8.3%
- This is fine Warm your planet by 70°C. 7.9%
- Safe! Protect your people 4.4%
- I know this one... Find the secret Mad Crab. 3.9%
- Cost of freedom Did you think you were going to get away with it? 3.6%
- Where are we Find the secret statue. 3.3%
- Overflooded Flood 1M population (they are being relocated, don't worry!) 1.7%
- Overcrowded Reach 10M global population. 0.8%
- No time to waste Finish the game under 100 years 0.7%
- Gotta catch 'em all Control every animal. 0.3%
- Pyromaniac [Worlds of Fire and Water DLC] Burn a city building. 0.3%
- Epic gamer Finish the game with all settings on max difficulty. 0.3%
- The Flood [Worlds of Fire and Water DLC] Bring 30 ice comets at the same time 0.1%
- Mr Clean [Worlds of Fire and Water DLC] Clean half of the Water world. 0.1%
- Sea Captain Control every fish. 0.1%
- Hades [Worlds of Fire and Water DLC] Successfully terraform the Fire world, and tame the wrath of the earth. 0.1%
- Poseidon [Worlds of Fire and Water DLC] Successfully terraform the Water world, and become the master of the ocean. 0.1%
- Lunar landscape But it was supposed to be a peaceful game! 0.1%