Artisan TD
Give it 5 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours almost 1 in 3 reviews are negative (29%); after 10h it's 1 in 17 (6%).
- Fully opens up by hour 10.
- 12% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “Adventurer I” (Finish Board 02) and “Titanesque I” (Defeat TITAN I): from 99% to 35% of starters.
- 87% 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 2,574 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 296 reviews: 12.3h for positive, 1.8h 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 (87% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Adventurer I Finish Board 02 99% −1
- Titanesque I Defeat TITAN I Most players quit here 35% −63
- Adventurer II Finish Board 11 33% −2
- Titanesque II Defeat TITAN II 18% −15
- Adventurer III Finish Board 21 17% −1
- Titanesque III Defeat TITAN III 15% −2
- Victory Complete the main quest. 12% −2
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (41)
story milestone ending side
- Perfect Have 1 Perfect 100%
- Adventurer I Finish Board 02 99%
- Titanesque I Defeat TITAN I 35%
- Adventurer II Finish Board 11 33%
- The Line Surviving with a path of more than 50 tiles 31%
- Perfect Expert Have 10 Perfects 26%
- Green Thumb Harvesting 10 fields 20%
- Chaos Explorer Have 60 stars (main quest) 20%
- Titanesque II Defeat TITAN II 18%
- Adventurer III Finish Board 21 17%
- Chaos Strategist Have 70 stars (main quest) 17%
- Administrator Surviving with a path of more than 75 tiles 16%
- Apprentice Ecologist Perfect without selling any tower – Board 5 15%
- Chaos Phoenix Have 80 stars (main quest) 15%
- Titanesque III Defeat TITAN III 15%
- Engineer Have used all Elite towers. 14%
- Builder Have used all towers. 14%
- Experimentalist Have used all LVL3 towers. 13%
- Archipelago of Chaos Discover all boards. 13%
- Chaos Master Have 92 stars (main quest) 12%
- Victory Complete the main quest. 12%
- Farmer Harvesting 20 fields 11%
- Perfect Master Have 30 Perfects 10%
- Baker Harvesting 30 fields 8.4%
- Clouds Finish Clouds 1, 2, 3. 7.9%
- Artisan Ecologist Perfect without selling any tower – Board 10 (in Veteran difficulty or higher) 6.7%
- Octogolem Defeat Octogolem 6.3%
- Lava Lovers Perfect the first wave without any tower – Board 12 5.7%
- Luna Park Surviving with a path of more than 100 tiles 5.6%
- Grand Master Artisan Perfect the main quest (in Nightmare difficulty) 4.9%
- Master Ecologist I Perfect without selling any tower – Board 11 (in Nightmare difficulty) 4.8%
- Atheist Perfect without divine blessing – Board 15 (in Veteran difficulty or higher) 4.6%
- Master Ecologist V Perfect without selling any tower – Board 28 (in Nightmare difficulty) 3.8%
- Maze Surviving with a path of more than 55 tiles – Board 28 3.8%
- The Tightwad Perfect with 1000 coins – Board 23 (in Nightmare difficulty) 3.7%
- Master Ecologist II Perfect without selling any tower – Board 18 (in Nightmare difficulty) 3.6%
- Master Ecologist III Perfect without selling any tower – Board 20 (in Nightmare difficulty) 3.3%
- Master Ecologist IV Perfect without selling any tower – Board 22 (in Nightmare difficulty) 3.3%
- Maze II Surviving with a path of more than 67 tiles – Clouds 2 3.1%
- The Tightwad II Perfect with 2500 coins – Clouds 3 (in Nightmare difficulty) 3.0%
- Master Ecologist VI Perfect without selling any tower – Anniversary (in Nightmare difficulty) 2.1%