ActionAdventureIndie
PARTICLE MACE
Hooks you almost right away
Gets good by 1h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 3h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 9% of owners
Steam reviews 88% positive of 1,367
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 6 reviews are negative (17%); after 3h it's 1 in 12 (8%).
- Fully opens up by hour 3.
- The opening is criticised less than in 78% of games we track.
- Only 9% of owners have even the first achievement — the rest barely played.
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 1,377 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 282 reviews: 3.6h for positive, 1.2h 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 (8.8% 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 (21)
- Killed By The Snitch Get killed by the snitch foe 100%
- Unlock All Ships You'll need to unlock all of the ships 58%
- Perfect Credits Complete the credits without crashing 56%
- Mess With XML Crack open some XML 53%
- Score Asteroid Score 400 on Asteroid 52%
- Score Easy Score 3000 on Easy 49%
- Co-op Score Asteroid Score 500 on Asteroid in co-op 47%
- BFF Revive a teammate 15 times in one co-op game 46%
- Score Hard Score 3000 on Hard 46%
- Co-op Score Easy Score 4000 on Easy in co-op 44%
- Earn This Achievement You earn this achievement by earning it. 44%
- A Whole Mess Of Kills Kill 10000 foes 44%
- Beat The Game Beat the entire game. Everything must be complete. There can be nothing left to do, no score to beat, no foe to smash. 43%
- Co-op Score Hard Score 4000 on Hard in co-op 43%
- Deathmatch Kills Have 1000 deaths in Deathmatch 43%
- Loop Hard Music Last long enough for the music to loop in single player Hard mode. 43%
- Score Asteroid Show-off Score 401 on Asteroid with the Show-off Ship 43%
- Score Easy Show-off Score 3001 on Easy with the Show-off Ship 43%
- Score Hard Show-off Score 3001 on Hard with the Show-off Ship 43%
- Team Pacifist Go 60 seconds without killing or crashing in co-op Hard 43%
- Player Deaths 5000 player ships have exploded. 43%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-20.