The Magic Circle

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 1,516 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 296 reviews: 5.5h for positive, 2.8h 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 (80.2% 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 (14)

• Finished the game? More like... Finished the "game". 100%
• Beat the boss? What kind of boss fight was that? 44%
• Placeholder Achievement 99 Your Words Go Here 38%
• Starfather Got enough of Starfather's speech to make a proper mixtape 33%
• Couldn't take a hint Old Pro had to do it for you 33%
• Master Scout Embrace the null state 24%
• Cool story, Bro Pushed the button because you got bored 15%
• Back to where we met Remembered your first when it mattered 15%
• Leap of Faith The boundaries of this simulation have no hold on you. 9.7%
• Magnum Opus You will be known as the person who made that thing. 9.1%
• An Act of Love This can only be... 8.6%
• Quality Assurance Hell hath no fury like a tester scorned. 7.9%
• Cultural Collaborator There is no keypad here, but you did it anyway 5.9%
• Fully Utilized From this point on, you will have to exhaust your own content. 3.1%