CasualIndieSimulationStrategy
Alchemy Factory
Give it 1 hour
Gets good by 1h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 15h rated like by long-time players
Reach the ending 3% of players who started
Started playing 98% of owners
Steam reviews 88% positive of 3,105
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours almost 1 in 2 reviews are negative (42%); after 20h it's 1 in 12 (8%).
- Fully opens up by hour 15.
- Few early reviews, so this is a rough estimate.
- 3% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “The Alchemist's Path IV” (Reach Level 4) and “The Alchemist's Path V” (Reach Level 5): from 74% to 44% of starters.
- 98% 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 3,127 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 298 reviews: 41.5h for positive, 17.4h 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 (98.4% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- The Alchemist's Path II Reach Level 2 96% −4
- The Alchemist's Path III Reach Level 3 86% −11
- The Alchemist's Path IV Reach Level 4 74% −11
- The Alchemist's Path V Reach Level 5 Most players quit here 44% −30
- The Alchemist's Path VI Reach Level 6 29% −15
- The Alchemist's Path VII Reach Level 7 18% −11
- The Alchemist's Path VIII Reach Level 8 11% −7
- The Alchemist's Path IX Reach Level 9 6% −5
- Alchemy Master Finish All Main Quests 3% −3
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (55)
story milestone ending side
- The Alchemist's Path I Buy your first plot of land 100%
- The Alchemist's Path II Reach Level 2 96%
- No Pay No Goods Process a customer checkout 92%
- You reap what you sow. Complete a harvest. 90%
- The Alchemist's Path III Reach Level 3 86%
- First Potion! Produce a Healing Potion 79%
- Fire It Up! Place a Stone Furnace 78%
- Iron Age Produce an Iron Ingot 77%
- The Alchemist's Path IV Reach Level 4 74%
- Automatic Cashier Place an Automatic Cashier 72%
- Automatic Restock Complete a restock with a Catapult 61%
- Plumber Complete research of Pipeline 61%
- Taking Shape Buy five plots of land 45%
- The Alchemist's Path V Reach Level 5 44%
- Steel Age Produce a Steel Ingot 32%
- The Alchemist's Path VI Reach Level 6 29%
- Power of Jupiter Produce a Jupiter 29%
- Word of Mouth Reach the maximum reputation level 25%
- Traditional Alchemy Complete research of Cauldron 24%
- Bronze Age Produce a Copper Ingot 23%
- All Sticky Buy a Gelatinous Gridlock 18%
- The Alchemist's Path VII Reach Level 7 18%
- Fidelity to the Quests Complete 30 random quests 17%
- Power of Saturn Produce a Saturn 15%
- The Plank Baron Produce 1M Planks 14%
- The Alchemist's Path VIII Reach Level 8 11%
- Power of Mars Produce a Mars 11%
- Grow, Little Tree, Grow! Place a World Tree Nursery 7.7%
- Power of Venus Produce a Venus 6.8%
- Perfection! Produce a Perfect Diamond 6.7%
- The Alchemist's Path IX Reach Level 9 6.3%
- Apothecary Craft Max Level Potion Belt 6.2%
- Inflation? What's that? Produce 1M Copper Coins 6.2%
- Silver Age Produce a Silver Ingot 6.0%
- Daily Fortune Earn 100 gold coins in a single day 5.0%
- Spatial Magic Craft Max Level Inventory 4.1%
- Washing Up the Market Produce 1M Soaps 3.9%
- Gold Age Produce a Gold Ingot 3.7%
- Power of Mercury Produce a Mercury 3.7%
- The Legendary Stone Produce a Philosopher’s Stone 3.4%
- Year after Year Spend 365 days in the game 3.4%
- Alchemy Master Finish All Main Quests 3.3%
- Level 100 Club Reach Level 100 3.2%
- Power of Luna Produce a Luna 2.9%
- Great Landowner Buy all available lands 2.8%
- Power of Sol Produce a Sol 2.7%
- Watch Your Step! Build a Thermal Extractor with maximum production multiplier 2.6%
- Overqualified Produce a plank with a cauldron 2.5%
- Vitae & Mors Craft a Vitality Essence into an Oblivion Essence 2.4%
- Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown Produce a Crown 2.2%
- Tenacity Craft a Plank into an Oblivion Essence 1.9%
- What are you doing? Use a catapult to throw an automatic cashier into a cauldron 1.8%
- Don't bother me! Complete the game without selling any goods to customers 0.8%
- Born with the Talent Complete the game within 50 days 0.7%
- The Architect Complete the game without buying any land 0.6%
Steam page Updated: 2026-11-01.