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The Signal From Tölva
Give it 7 hours
Gets good by 7h then rated almost like by veterans
Started playing 51% of owners
Steam reviews 68% positive of 1,122
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (59%); after 7h it's 1 in 5 (20%).
- The opening is criticised more than in 88% of games we track.
- Only 51% 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 1,128 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 298 reviews: 9.7h 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 (50.9% 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 (42)
- Surveyor Scan your first data snooper 100%
- Soldier Capture your first bunker 92%
- Rank 1 Reach Rank 1 72%
- Warrior Control 4 bunkers 71%
- Commander Unlock the command module 69%
- Pugilist Melee'd something 61%
- Drone Hand in 5 missions 56%
- Gatherer Collect 100 resource fragments 54%
- Docker Scan a shuttle 51%
- Rank 2 Reach Rank 2 51%
- Fratricide Kill a Surveyor 50%
- Swatter Kill a Killer Drone 46%
- Warlord Control half of Tölva's bunkers 42%
- Rank 3 Reach Rank 3 41%
- Worker Hand in 10 missions 39%
- Kill It With Fire! Kill a Spider 37%
- Provider Collect 200 resource fragments 36%
- Rank 4 Reach Rank 4 36%
- I'm Not Lost Spend 10 minutes in mazes 33%
- Rank 5 Reach Rank 5 30%
- Spook Scan a Ghost 29%
- Friendly Recruit 10 different bots 29%
- Longshoreman Scan the Treadlight Freighter 28%
- Inquisitor Scan 40 Bandits 26%
- Rank 6 Reach Rank 6 26%
- Stevedore Scan the Zealot Frigate 23%
- Silencer Kill a Data Interpolator 22%
- Investigator Scan 40 Zealots 22%
- Grand Surveyor Scan 50% of data snoopers 20%
- Official Hand in all non-endgame missions 20%
- Robotic Arms Unlock all weapons 20%
- Messenger Activate every marker beacon 17%
- Inspector Scan 40 Surveyors 16%
- Hoarder Collect 400 resource fragments 16%
- Overlord Claim every bunker in Tölva 14%
- Sociable Recruit 50 different bots 14%
- Traveller Visit all regions 13%
- Omniscient Scan 200 bots 13%
- I Might Be Lost Spend 30 minutes in mazes 11%
- Okay... I Am Lost Spend 60 minutes in mazes 6.1%
- Master Surveyor Scan all data snoopers 5.5%
- Gregarious Recruit 150 different bots 5.1%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-20.