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Arco
Give it 7 hours
Gets good by 7h then rated almost like by veterans
Fully opens up by 10h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 74% of owners
Steam reviews 96% positive of 2,341
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 5 reviews are negative (19%); after 10h it's 1 in 110 (1%).
- Fully opens up by hour 10.
- The opening is criticised less than in 75% of games we track.
- Few early reviews, so this is a rough estimate.
- 74% 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 2,354 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 298 reviews: 12.6h for positive, 1.9h 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 (74.3% 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 (54)
- Pilgrimage Complete Act I 100%
- Bomberman Kill 3 enemies in one explosion 87%
- Nature Lover Kill 10 enemies with the environment 68%
- Old Bones Complete Act II 51%
- Let Me Play Stun 10 enemies 51%
- Jumpscare! Get yelled at by the donkey 48%
- Rage Kill 5 enemies in the same turn 46%
- Mimic Kill the Mimic 44%
- No Judgement Let the junkie do his thing 37%
- Stingy Have more than 40 coins at once 37%
- Search for Glory Complete Act III 33%
- Pay To Win Use 100 items 28%
- Toxicology Poison 10 enemies 27%
- Two Halves Complete Act IV 26%
- Gotta Catch Em All Catch 10 fish 25%
- Exterminator Kill all the bugs in the tetl mine 25%
- Oil & Blood Complete Act V 25%
- Not Guilty Finish the game with low guilt 24%
- Moon Moth Kill the Moon Moth 24%
- Useless Buy a ticket to the oilsands 23%
- Playground Recover the tuag kid's ball 20%
- Sheriff Solve the ghost mystery 20%
- Heartless Doesn't like cookies 19%
- Hungry Slaughter the lamb 19%
- Bounty Hunter Killer Discover the bounty hunter's hideout 18%
- Bully Kill an enemy that was poisoned and stunned 17%
- Bad Gift Make a shrine angry 15%
- Shepherd Return the lamb home 14%
- Happy Boy Cheer up a sad trasgo 14%
- Was It Worth It? Kill the bugs in the abandoned house 13%
- Sun Spider Kill the Sun Spider 12%
- Genocide Kill the hob quarry population 11%
- Forest Alliance Befriend the Axolotls 9.8%
- Pinchito Kill 3 enemies with one arrow 7.8%
- True Supporter Talk to all developer characters in the game 7.5%
- Blessed Catch 10 fairies 6.5%
- Pignose Frog Kill the Pignose Frog 5.7%
- Legend Earn 10th Rank in the Arena 5.2%
- Not For Me Become a squash farmer 4.8%
- I/III Unlock 1 obelisk 4.7%
- The Show Mustn't Go On Get kicked out of the arena 4.3%
- Not So Useless Kill an enemy with a rock 4.2%
- Kitty Litter Did that just happen? 3.6%
- Play The Game Bribe a newcomer 3.5%
- Entrepreneur Hold 15 Sticks 3.4%
- That Toaster Get annoyed about a toaster 3.4%
- Double Vax Get Needled Twice 2.0%
- II/III Unlock 2 obelisks 2.0%
- III/III Unlock 3 obelisks 1.5%
- Dark Path Kill The Huntress 1.3%
- Stock Trader Sell a donkey to Atzi 1.3%
- Looks Safe Misjudge a drop 3 separate times 1.2%
- Guilty Finish the game with high guilt 1.2%
- Wall Hugger Discover all dungeon secrets 1.2%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-20.