When does FortressCraft Evolved! get good?

Give it 20 hours. In the first 2 hours most reviews are negative (68%); after 35h it's 1 in 8 (12%). Fully opens up by hour 35.

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FortressCraft Evolved!

Nov 9, 2015 Steam: Mostly Positive

Give it 20 hours

Gets good by 20h then rated almost like by veterans

Fully opens up by 35h rated like by long-time players

Started playing 92% of owners

Steam reviews 72% positive of 3,066

What the data shows

In the first 2 hours most reviews are negative (68%); after 35h it's 1 in 8 (12%).
Fully opens up by hour 35.
The opening is criticised more than in 94% of games we track.
The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
92% 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 3,069 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 296 reviews: 133.9h 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 (91.9% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.

This game has no story achievements, so we can't tell where players quit.

All achievements (85)

story milestone ending side

Genesis Created your first world 100%
I was there... Joined the FortressCraft community whilst it was still growing. 100%
...survive! Entered Survival Mode 92%
ORE RLY? Extract your first Ore! 57%
Teach a Man to Fish Looked in the handbook for help 52%
Painting the town Red, Green and Blue. Used the paint gun to colourise some blocks. 49%
...failed to survive. Died whilst in Survival Mode. 46%
I scream, you scream, we all scream for icecream Death by freezing 30%
May the force induction be with you Placed a Forced Induction unit on top of a Smelter 29%
Mission Report: December 16th, 1991 Requested a new mission report 28%
Bright light, bright light! Crafted and fitted the Mk2 Solar Cell 28%
No, the OTHER Dexter Built a Laboratory 27%
MK1, the original and best Mk1 Turret Built 25%
It's a shooting gallery down there... MK2 Turret Built 22%
...some bottom-feeding, scum-sucking algae eater... Killed a Mynock 20%
What happens to a toad in a thunderstorm? Same thing as everything else! 19%
Game over man....game over Lost your Central Power Hub in a wasp invasion 19%
Warm and Toasty! Crafted and fitted the Mk2 Suit Heater. 18%
Camobot killed The jungle, it came alive and took him 17%
The Golden Age of Crafting Smelted your first Gold bar! 17%
Boldly Go Where no one has Gone Before! Joined a Multiplayer World 17%
Worth 1.8 Million Words Watched one of the video tutorials via the handbook 17%
Be There or be Square! Hosted a Multiplayer World 17%
Two men walked into a bar... ...and smelted each of the Tier 2 Metals. 16%
Vitamn D Deficiency MK1 Solar Array placed 13%
1.21 gigawatts! Generate 1.2 billion watts of power. 13%
Face Melter Killed by a slime 12%
INNA FACE! Killed by a Camo Bot 12%
Craft 10,000 items I would rather be a dentist! 12%
Where will the polar bears live? Death by heat 11%
This is what the dinosaurs died for Build Refinery 11%
Gonna Need a Bigger Battery Build a Tier 4 Battery 10%
Batteries to Power, Turbines to Speed! Built Jet Turbine 9.8%
Praise the Sun! MK2 Solar Array placed 9.0%
If at first you don't succeed... ...delete more than 50,000 blocks by hand. 8.6%
Steal from the rich... Download from the Steam Workshop 8.4%
Don't Eat The Paste! Used Construction Paste for its proper purpose. 8.4%
Build to me, to you. Harness the power of Build2Me and save yourself a lot of time. Might wear out the left control key tho... 8.1%
Thanks for your opinion - we'll take it under consideration Use a feature in-game that was suggested by a member of the community 7.0%
It'll be alright on the meterorite... Blow something up with a little help from space. 6.2%
Purple Ghost Shark Torpedoes Kill a Tunnel Nuker 6.2%
Dig deep enough and you might find gold Built a Quarry 5.9%
More Power...Ogh, Ogh Ogh! Build a Tier 5 Battery 5.9%
A stand-up fight AND a bug hunt! Kill 10,000 wasps 5.7%
"If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing!" - Direwolf20 Overdid it. 5.5%
Split the Sky Built an Orbital Power Transmitter 5.4%
Spelunkish Dig deeper than 1600 metres. 4.9%
A whole lotta NOPE Hit 20,000% Threat 4.7%
...that voxel in particular... Use the meteorite's alternate summon. 4.7%
Useful for more than just rollercoasters Crafted and used a Minecart 4.6%
To Infinity....and BEYOND! Fully charged your Orbital Transmitter and unlocked the Rush Mode 3.9%
Join the Mile High club Travel more than 1600 metres in the air. 3.4%
Pajitnov Complex Built 50,000 blocks by hand 3.3%
Into the Deep Blue Ran 64-bit Fantastic mode and baked to 100% 2.8%
Loyal Fan Ask @Fortress_Craft on Twitter for details of how to obtain this achievement! 2.8%
Down the rabbithole Travel really deep. 2.6%
Its a Play Date Someone actually joined your world! 2.6%
One MILLION Ore! Smelt a total of one million bars. 2.5%
Seeing double Used the copy/paste tool. 1.8%
Let there be light! Place a configurable light. 1.7%
Looked directly into the beam! Stood in the path of a Conduit whilst it fires 1.6%
No... the OTHER Grinder. Stood on a Grinder. 1.6%
Just keep scanning, just keep scanning Scan, Build and Craft over 400 different things. 1.6%
Thresher? I hardly knew 'er! Stood on the wrong part of a Thresher Drill. 1.5%
Seventh Circle Visited Hell 1.5%
Resistance is futile Create a maximum-sized cube using SuperBuild 1.4%
I understand now that I made a mistake. Had your feet turned to paste by a Particle Filter 1.3%
Brrr, it's a bit nippy.... in. Stood on CryoPlasm a little too long. 1.3%
That's No Moon Create a maximum-sized sphere using SuperBuild 1.3%
Big Version... Little Version... Create a detail block 1.2%
It's a Bobby Dazzler! Attempted to stare down a Dazzler Turret and failed. 1.2%
The Flat Earthers Were Right! Defeated a CryoPlasm Spawner and unlocked Flatland mode! 1.2%
Rama-Rana Create a maximum-sized cylinder using SuperBuild. Also kudos if you get the obscure reference... 1.1%
The house that Dire Built Built a 9x9x9 room 1.1%
Saving it for a rainy day. Saved a copy/paste schematic. 1.1%
You are NOT a Dragon! Hoarded too much in a Mass Storage system 1.0%
Let's Party Like its 1999! Hosted a World for 24 Hours 0.9%
Seven Dwarves Create a workshop of each size 0.9%
MINE! MINE! MINE! Stand near a CryoMine when it goes off. Then jump 200 yards in the air and scatter yourself over a wide area. 0.8%
Must...Go...Faster Charged Orbital Transmitter in Rush Mode 0.8%
Wear Your Party Pants ...everyone was invited! 0.7%
Better Late than Never! Join a world with 50+players 0.7%
...and give to the poor. Upload to the Steam Workshop. 0.7%
Working night and day. Build 100 million blocks using any tools available. 0.7%
I fought the bore, and the bore won. Be killed by the magmabore. 0.5%

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