FACEMINER

When it gets good

Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.

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Based on all 1,634 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 298 reviews: 4h for positive, 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 (73.5% 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 (56)

• Perfectionist Process 5 datasets in a row with 100% accuracy. 100%
• The Harvester Reach the rank of Harvester I. 87%
• Number Cruncher Purchase the impact predictor upgrade. 77%
• The Excavator Reach the rank of Excavator I. 76%
• The Architect Reach the rank of Architect I. 71%
• Going Green Purchase 15+ Solar Panels. 69%
• CATMINER Manually mine a cat. 68%
• Entrepreneur $1,000,000 dollars in the bank. 66%
• Threat Eliminated Max out the Antivirus level. 60%
• Fort Knox Max out the Firewall level. 56%
• The Chosen Reach the rank of Chosen I. 56%
• Five Eyes 100,000+ cameras 54%
• Complete Story Finish the story, any pacing. 52%
• DJ Listen to every song in a single session. 49%
• Shopaholic One of everything, please. 47%
• Lore Connoisseur Read everything that hits your Documents Folder. 47%
• Feeling Lucky Max out bounty hunter. 46%
• Data Hoarder Store over 25 datasets at once. 46%
• Playing With Fire Overheat your system. 40%
• The Administrator Explore the Administration screen in full. 35%
• Close Call Have less than $10 remaining after a bill is paid. 34%
• Scenic Route Try out all the different views. 32%
• Balancing Act Have $0 expenses per second during the final act. 30%
• Back From The Brink Get back on track after two negative balance warnings. 29%
• Reality Architect Purchase 5+ Public Relations upgrades. 28%
• Big Data Process 1,000,000 total pieces of data. 27%
• Archivist Print out completion certificate. Framing optional. 24%
• FACEMAILER Send yourself a message. 21%
• The Old Fashioned Way Manually mine 1000 faces. 21%
• Antisocial Do not disturb. Mute or pause anything that might be distracting. 21%
• Burnout End a game by generating too much heat. 18%
• Crashout End a game by using too much CPU. 17%
• Big Spender Spend over $1 million in a single billing cycle. 17%
• High Throughput Get AutoMode to level 100. 16%
• Worrywart Buy 10 extra backups in single playthrough. 14%
• FACEDODGER Process a dataset with 0% accuracy. 13%
• The Sovereign Reach the rank of Sovereign I. 12%
• Nine Eyes 1,000,000+ cameras 11%
• Nuclear Option Purchase the nuclear reactor upgrade. 9.7%
• Top Student Get an S grade (any mode). 9.5%
• Out With A Bang Hit a temperature of 175 in a normal Story Mode game. 8.6%
• Mint Condition Complete a game without triggering an error. 8.2%
• Complete Slower Story Finish the story, slower pacing. 7.5%
• Getting Hotter Hit 1000 degrees (Heat Index). 7.2%
• High Earner Net more than $1,000,000 per second during a billing cycle. 6.5%
• Thirsty Use over 250,000 gallons of water in a single billing cycle. 6.4%
• Inferno Reach 10,000 degrees (Heat Index). 5.3%
• Camera Shy Complete the game without using any Harvesting upgrades. 5.2%
• Overlord Reach the rank of Overlord. 5.2%
• Glitch Exploited Finish the story, Infinite Money Glitch pacing. 4.5%
• Moral Victory The countdown is on. Will you do the right thing? 4.5%
• The Visionary Reach the rank of The Visionary. 4.2%
• Rich List $1,000,000,000 dollars in the bank. 3.9%
• Heat Death Reach 100,000 degrees (Heat Index). 3.8%
• Speedrunner Get top marks for speed (any mode). 3.8%
• Sore Finger Complete an Infinite Money Glitch run in under 15 minutes. 3.7%