ActionAdventureIndieSimulationStrategy
Bootstrap Island
Give it 3 hours
Gets good by 3h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Started playing 37% of owners
Steam reviews 83% positive of 1,470
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 3 reviews are negative (37%); after 4h it's 1 in 12 (8%).
- Only 37% 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 1,484 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 298 reviews: 6.2h for positive, 1.2h 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 (37% 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 (30)
- Break of Dawn Survived your first night 100%
- Back, you devils! Scared an animal with fire 79%
- Broken Promises Completed Chapter 1 19%
- Cocktails! Drank a mix of two or more liquids 11%
- Look What I Have Created! Lit a Pyre on the Vantage Point 9.7%
- Shipwrecker Completed Chapter 2 8.9%
- Dethroned Defeated Seymour 7.0%
- A Full Kit Unlocked all European items 5.9%
- Munchies Ate 10 small critters in one life 5.9%
- Timber! Felled a giant tree 4.9%
- Visionary Completed Chapter 3 4.9%
- Stainless Fingers Survived 10 days without shooting a Firearm 3.0%
- I Come in Peace! Communicated with a native 2.7%
- Resist the Urge Survived 28 days without resorting to cannibalism 2.4%
- All Hope is Gone Achieved maximum sickness 2.2%
- Gatherer Ate all fruits in the game 2.2%
- Caveman Visited a cave in all areas 1.9%
- Sultan Ate a raisin 1.9%
- Champion Complete the story 1.6%
- Sushi Buffet Ate raw fish or clam 20 times in one life 1.6%
- Architect Built all available constructions 1.4%
- Endurance Survived 47 days 1.1%
- Thrill Seeker Fell 50m without dying 1.1%
- Tropical Fishing Killed a fish with an arrow 0.8%
- Hunter Hunted, cooked and ate all animals 0.5%
- Lightning Rod Got hit by lightning 0.5%
- Trapper Killed an enemy with a firearm set off by fire 0.5%
- Explorer reporting! Found all the wild eggs 0.3%
- Privateer Killed 8 enemies in one night 0.3%
- The Native Earned all Achievements in Bootstrap Island 0.3%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-20.