RPG Tycoon

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 487 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 293 reviews: 4.1h for positive, 3.8h 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 (74.5% 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 (73)

• My First Hero You hired your first lacke...uh... hero. 100%
• Attracting Attention People are starting to notice you! 89%
• Objectivefication You've successfully completed an objective! 80%
• The Local You've given adventurers somewhere to relax and get a drink 77%
• Level Up! Your Kingdom grew to Level 2! 71%
• New Is Always Better You added an upgrade to a store 48%
• Reading Time You've successfully completed some research 42%
• Getting Gold You started filling your treasury! 39%
• Expendable Income You've made quite a bit of business from Adventurers 36%
• Modularity You placed a variation of a modular item in your kingdom. 33%
• Equipped Fully Equip A Hero 29%
• Planning Permission Expand your kingdom for free 23%
• Bounty Hunter Complete a Bounty for a Settlement 17%
• Puppet On A String Have a claimed settlement with 100% Happiness 16%
• Stone Walled Because... Fences suck. 15%
• Quality Control Have a stock quality of 50% in a store 10%
• Supply and Demand Have access to all supply and feedback slots. 9.5%
• Perfect Quest Achieve A Perfect Ranking in a Quick Quest 7.9%
• Kind of a Big Deal Your Kingdom grew to Level 10 6.6%
• Top Quality Product Increase stock quality of a store to 100% 6.2%
• Most Popular Be the Most Popular kingdom for 5 years in a row 5.6%
• Most Educated Be the Most Educated kingdom for 5 years in a row 5.4%
• Most Constructive Be the Most Constructive kingdom for 5 years in a row 5.0%
• Most Attractive Be the Most Attractive kingdom for 5 years in a row 4.7%
• Most Amused Be the Most Amused kingdom for 5 years in a row 4.3%
• Superstore Mogul Have a store in your Kingdom reach Level 5 4.3%
• Most Expansive Be the Most Expansive kingdom for 5 years in a row 4.2%
• Most Commercial Be the Most Commercial kingdom for 5 years in a row. 3.6%
• Outtatime Place a mystery from another time in your Kingdom. 3.5%
• Reigning Champion Be the best of the best for 5 years in a row. 3.5%
• Most Wealthy Be the Most Wealthy kingdom for 5 years in a row 3.1%
• Greatest Kingdom in the Land You completed and won a game of RPG Tycoon! 3.0%
• High Scorer You achieved a high score at the end of the game. (Normal Difficulty) 3.0%
• Who wants to be a Millionaire? Have over 1,000,000 gold in your Kingdom treasury. 2.8%
• Most Bloodthirsty Be the Most Bloodthirsty kingdom for 5 years in a row 2.7%
• CHEEEEEEEEESSSSSSEEEEE!!!! You built a monument in honour of great hunters. 2.7%
• The Only Way Is Up You've made over 50 improvements to your Kingdom. 2.6%
• Close Enough You were close to becoming the Greatest Kingdom in the Land 2.4%
• Master Explorer Unlock Every Quest Type and Settlement in the Game 2.3%
• Daily Grind Your Kingdom reached the Maximum Level 2.0%
• We don't need no education... Yes you do, that's a double negative. Create a Hero from the Hero School 2.0%
• Creature of Habit Complete the same Quick Quest 10 times in a row 1.6%
• King-dom of the World Be the best at everything. 1.6%
• Not Even Close You completed and lost a game of RPG Tycoon. 1.2%
• Can't Hack It It wouldn't be a Tycoon game without cheats! 1.2%
• Sandcastles in the Sand Complete Scenario 1 on Bronze Difficulty or Higher 1.2%
• Vigilante You've successfully claimed 50 Bounties! 0.9%
• Bounty Master You've mastered bounty hunting and reached maximum level! 0.9%
• Perfectionist Achieve A Perfect Ranking in 500 Quick Quests 0.9%
• Constant Disappointment Fail to be the best kingdom for 5 years running. 0.9%
• Useless Without It Equip a Hero with items that double all of their stats 0.9%
• Lone Wolf Complete a game of RPG Tycoon with only one Hero 0.9%
• Ultimate Timesink You completed and won a game of RPG Tycoon on the longest game duration. 0.9%
• Manipulative Claim all of the settlements in the game. 0.9%
• One Trick Pony Complete the same Quick Quest 50 times in a row 0.9%
• Long Term Gains Complete Scenario 2 on Bronze Difficulty or Higher 0.9%
• Don't Stop Believing Reach Level 3 of the Explorers Guild 0.8%
• Eye of the Tiger Reach Level 3 of the Fighters Guild 0.8%
• Better Than All The Rest You completed and won a game of RPG Tycoon on the Hardest Difficulty 0.8%
• LEEEEEEROOOOYY JENNNNKINS! For the Most Fearless of Heroes 0.8%
• Taste of Freedom Payback a loan of over 500,000g 0.8%
• Hey Big Spender Reach Level 3 of the Merchants Guild 0.8%
• OH THE MONSTROSITY! Have a monstrosity in your Kingdom. 0.8%
• Farm Me To You Complete Scenario 3 on Bronze Difficulty or Higher 0.8%
• Snow Way To Go Complete Scenario 4 on Bronze Difficulty or Higher 0.8%
• A Trio Of Tourism Complete Scenario 5 on Bronze Difficulty or Higher 0.8%
• Challenger Complete all scenarios on Silver difficulty 0.7%
• Old School Complete Scenario 6 on Bronze Difficulty or Higher 0.7%
• Trading Places Complete Scenario 7 on Bronze Difficulty or Higher 0.7%
• Big Spenders Complete Scenario 8 on Bronze Difficulty or Higher 0.7%
• It's All an Investment Complete Scenario 9 on Bronze Difficulty or Higher 0.7%
• Calm Before The Storm Complete Scenario 10 on Bronze Difficulty or Higher 0.7%
• Task Master Complete all scenarios on Gold difficulty 0.7%