Hot Lava
Give it 2 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 5 reviews are negative (20%); after 5h it's 1 in 30 (4%).
- Fully opens up by hour 5.
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- 85% 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 6,246 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 294 reviews: 6.5h for positive, 3.7h 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 (84.6% 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 (41)
story milestone ending side
- The Floor Is Lava! Complete the Intro. 100%
- Jumping Off Point Jump 100 times. 97%
- Add Some Character Unlock your first character. 96%
- Video Games Will Rot Your Brain Complete the first course in Gym Class. 95%
- Boost Baby Build up boost to 5 m/s. 91%
- Sky Walker Perform a "late" jump right after leaving a ledge 77 times. 88%
- The Floor Is Floor Die by Collision. 82%
- Fight Violence With Action Complete a course with no deaths. 81%
- Home Tutoring Unlock all courses in Gym Class. 76%
- Absolute Confection Tweak something in the Settings menu. 75%
- Hot Pursuit Complete your first "pursuit" course. 72%
- Jump To It Jump 1000 Times. 72%
- Tiny Dancer Complete a Tiny Toy trial. 57%
- Pogo Power Complete a Pogo trial. 55%
- You Came To Play Unlock all courses in Playground. 40%
- Extra Credit Complete all courses and trials in Gym Class. 39%
- Jump On It Jump 5000 Times. 32%
- Rise To The Challenge Complete all challenges for a single course. 31%
- School's Out Forever Complete all courses and trials in School. 23%
- Jump Shot Get a basketball into the hoop in Playground. 19%
- Play For Keeps Complete all courses and trials in Playground. 18%
- Clean Up On Aisle Four Unlock all courses in Wholesale. 17%
- Master Of Some Unlock all courses in Master Class. 15%
- Touch Base Unlock all courses in Basement. 13%
- Grand Theft Backpack Pick up a knapsack and run with it. 8.9%
- The Fort is Lava Find the hidden fort in Wholesale. 8.9%
- Pursuit Purist Complete all pursuit courses. 8.4%
- Community Patron Complete a community map course. 8.4%
- Hydro Homies Use a water fountain. 8.3%
- You're A Monster Lose Buddy to the lava. 7.8%
- Level Up Complete all courses. 7.7%
- School's Out Unlock all courses in School. 7.4%
- Running With Scissors Pick up a pair of scissors and run with it. 5.8%
- Doctorate Of Jumpology Complete all courses and trials in Master Class. 5.3%
- Doggone It! Complete a course with Buddy. 5.2%
- Price Check Complete all courses and trials in Wholesale. 5.2%
- I've Found My Friends Unlock a follower. 4.8%
- 20,000 Steps Under The Ground Complete all courses and trials in Basement. 4.7%
- Pogo Gang Complete all Pogo trials. 4.0%
- Ultimate Tiny Traveller Complete all Tiny Toy trials. 4.0%
- Stick To It Complete one sticker set. 3.4%