Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor
Give it 5 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (48%); after 5h it's 1 in 5 (19%).
- 8% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “Long Day No Pay” (complete one day) and “Gross” (get the first tablet piece): from 76% to 34% of starters.
- Only 59% 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 995 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 292 reviews: 7.6h for positive, 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 (59% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Long Day No Pay complete one day 76% −24
- Gross get the first tablet piece Most players quit here 34% −42
- Devotee get a tablet piece from Rhiande 13% −21
- Strangely Quiet transfer the skull curse 9% −4
- Dear Diary finish the game 9%
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (44)
story milestone ending side
- Bwah! get cursed 100%
- Long Day No Pay complete one day 76%
- Tough Luck get your luck index below -100 74%
- 5 Second Rule eat an item off the ground 67%
- Party Animal stay out late on Theday 58%
- Rags to Worse Rags start the day poor, end it poorer 53%
- Delicious! buy river weevils 41%
- THANK YOU FOR YOUR OBEDIENCE incinerate 100 items 37%
- Charmed get your luck index over 100 35%
- Gross get the first tablet piece 34%
- 9 Days a Week complete one week 29%
- Every Nook & Cranny explore every area 21%
- Sick Burn incinerate 50 pools of vomit 18%
- Goddess get your luck index over 500 18%
- Apprentice sell a common spellswatch 16%
- Not in the Job Description return to the sewerdungeon 15%
- Necromancer sell a rare spellswatch 14%
- Spellcrafter sell an uncommon spellswatch 14%
- Devotee get a tablet piece from Rhiande 13%
- Black Market trade with Shifty Sallamot 11%
- Romanceable feed 5 dirt to dirt girl 8.8%
- Windowshopper peruse the market's wares 8.6%
- Strangely Quiet transfer the skull curse 8.5%
- Dear Diary finish the game 8.5%
- Making Ends Meet lose 200 MC in one day 8.3%
- Woah, where did you find that?? sell a mythic spellswatch 8.0%
- Instant Gratification 6.9%
- Good Decisions drink poison 6.9%
- Supernova dank.... 6.9%
- Scavenger sell an item for more than 50 credits 6.6%
- Pilgrim worship every goddess in the same day 6.4%
- Your Money, My Lunch get mugged 3x in one day 6.4%
- Off Limits parkour out of the map 5.1%
- Rags to Riches gain 200 MC in one day 4.9%
- Spendthrift incinerate one of each tier-one currency 4.7%
- Something Happened collect enough blue gems 4.6%
- Cheater 4.6%
- Totally Worth It 4.2%
- Overachiever stay inside all day 4.2%
- Buy One Get One Free get a random achievement from the merchant 3.9%
- Doing Something Right get your luck index below -666 3.7%
- Sucks to Suck lose all your achievements 3.7%
- Daily Ritual play 10+ minutes every (real-world) day, 9 days in a row 3.6%
- Booster Pack collect every trading card 3.6%
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