ActionIndieSimulation
Puddle
Hooks you right away
Gets good instantly from the first hour
Started playing 86% of owners
Steam reviews 74% positive of 510
What the data shows
- 50% of first-hour reviews are positive — about the same as players with 3+ hours (50%).
- 86% 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 513 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 300 reviews: 5h for positive, 1.3h 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 (85.9% 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 (23)
- Welcome! Welcome to Puddle game! 100%
- Make yourself scarce Take the shortcut in the level Wastewater. 75%
- Watercourse: absorbed Reach the end of the Watercourse chapter. 60%
- Nursery: absorbed Reach the end of the Nursery chapter. 32%
- Laboratory: absorbed Reach the end of the Laboratory chapter. 24%
- Every drop matters Finish a level with exactly the right amount of liquid. 21%
- Pugnacity Never give up! Keep trying again and again! 18%
- Human body: absorbed Reach the end of the Human body chapter. 17%
- Sewers: absorbed Reach the end of the Sewers chapter. 14%
- Rocket: absorbed Reach the end of the Rocket chapter. 11%
- Thank you guys! Who's behind the scene?? 7.5%
- Foundry: absorbed Reach the end of the Foundry chapter. 6.5%
- Quack-Quack It's time for the crash test. 5.0%
- Nuclear power plant: absorbed Reach the end of the Nuclear power plant chapter. 4.3%
- Say "truck" Make sure your fire engine remains undamaged. 4.1%
- Total reaction Finish all levels. 3.5%
- Green peace Push the bulb inside the droseras making sure not to drop any particles. 3.3%
- Souvenir Keep you glass ball intact in the Tahiti level. 2.4%
- Roundabout Finish the Nova level by only turning in one direction. 2.1%
- Waiter Keep all your liquid in the tank from the 2011 vintage level. 2.1%
- Eating is cheating Don't trigger any nausea during the Slightly acid level. 1.9%
- The price to pay Finish a level after at least 10 nitroglycerine explosions. 1.9%
- Gold rush Earn 48 gold medals. 1.7%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-21.