Stick It to the Stickman
Hooks you almost right away
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 8 reviews are negative (12%); after 5h it's 1 in 25 (4%).
- Fully opens up by hour 3.
- The opening is criticised less than in 87% of games we track.
- 4% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “You can't fire me, I quit” (Defeat your boss to become your boss) and “I hate Tuesdays”: from 100% to 8% of starters.
- 91% 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 9,505 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 13.8h for positive, 6.2h 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 (91.3% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- You can't fire me, I quit Defeat your boss to become your boss 100%
- I hate Tuesdays Defeat the final boss of Foreign Manufacturing Most players quit here 8% −92
- You are better than Elon Musk Defeat the final boss of Neurolink 6% −2
- Where it is due Beat the Credits 4% −2
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (40)
story milestone ending side
- You can't fire me, I quit Defeat your boss to become your boss 100%
- Going public Become listed on the Stockmarket 93%
- Learn to drive Get your Driver's license 82%
- Oriented Work a day shift at the Fulfillment Center 75%
- up the corporate ladder climb 100 ladders 69%
- We only come out at night Work the Night Shift 46%
- Fight with both hands behind my back Watch a ranked Cage Fight 25%
- Bustin' your M-nut Make 1 million dollars 23%
- Windows Update Defenestrate 100 coworkers 18%
- What a beautiful neighbourhood Gentrify 10 times in the City Map 17%
- Hold it in! Win a run with a full bladder 16%
- un-fired Extinguish the fire on a burning coworker 16%
- Generational Pain Kick 1000 coworkers in the balls 16%
- Color profiling Evade the police by spraying your whole body a different color 16%
- The smartest orphan Complete Company History Month 15%
- Red-gicide Destroy all the wooden CEO cutouts in the city 15%
- Fists of retrenchment Perform 100 consecutive punches 13%
- Forbes 100 Defeat all the CEOs in Cage Fight 11%
- Unemployable Feed your daughter 10%
- Wow, so much content Use 100 different moves 9.5%
- Feet of Retrenchment Perform 100 consecutive kicks 9.0%
- I hate Tuesdays Defeat the final boss of Foreign Manufacturing 8.1%
- Guns don't kill people Fire 100 guns in one run 6.7%
- You are better than Elon Musk Defeat the final boss of Neurolink 5.6%
- Off the spectrum Have 10 Mindpowers at once 5.3%
- Your friendly neighbourhood webslinger Photograph all webs in the city 5.1%
- Where it is due Beat the Credits 3.6%
- An arm and a leg Dismember 1000 coworkers 3.3%
- Look at this Big man Become the Founder 3.3%
- It's finally over Defeat the founder and dissolve capitalism 2.4%
- Unemployable II Get killed by your daughter's mind powers 2.4%
- Dude come on Revert the game to a capitalist hellscape 2.3%
- Heart Of The Billionaire Listen to the whole song at the founder statue 1.8%
- Ultimate Expansionist Purchase all expansions for all Game Modes 1.3%
- Stick it to the G-Man Fire the mysterious observer 1.3%
- Who left that in? Enable god mode 1.2%
- Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Unlock all archetypes 0.9%
- Warm delicious soup Pour soup on everyone in the soup kitchen 0.9%
- The point of no return Kill the younglings 0.7%
- Finally, some respect Reach Billionaire Rank in Cage Fight 0.7%