Police Simulator: Patrol Duty
The first 3 hours are a test
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours most reviews are negative (77%); after 5h it's almost 1 in 2 (41%).
- The opening is criticised more than in 98% of games we track.
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- 83% 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 4,146 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 283 reviews: 10.2h for positive, 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 (83.4% 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 (28)
story milestone ending side
- Observer Identify 1 citizens. 100%
- Get Frisky Frisk 1 citizen. 96%
- Get in! Have 1 criminal being taken to prison 86%
- On track Write 1 ticket to badly parked cars 85%
- Whatcha got there? Search the trunk of 1 car 60%
- Through the Park Find John's taxi. Or what is left of it. 29%
- Can't stand losing Have 6 wrecked cars towed. 22%
- Owl Painting Find the Owl Painting in the "safest" place in town. 5.8%
- Owl Poster Find the Owl Poster in the suburbs. 5.6%
- When in Rome Find the place with the Roman Numerals neon light. 4.3%
- Owl Stencil Find the Owl Stencil in the city's port. 3.2%
- Food wheel Find the Doughnut shop. 2.9%
- Snake-eyes Find the giant dice. 2.6%
- Touchy Frisk 30 citizens. 2.6%
- Owl Graffiti Find the Owl Graffiti in the seedy part of town. 1.9%
- Such an Icon Find the winged statue. 1.9%
- All guys do Kung Fu Find the Chinese Shop. 1.7%
- I'll be watching you Identify 35 citizens. 1.7%
- That’s the sound of Police Have 20 criminals being taken to prison 1.6%
- Owl Towel Find the Owl Towel in the beach. 1.0%
- The trunk's too big Search the trunk of 20 cars. 1.0%
- Every little thing Frisk 50 citizens. 0.8%
- Don't stand so close Have 30 criminals being taken to prison. 0.7%
- Let's Cook Find a blue ice industrial drum. 0.7%
- Lottery Badge Find a Police badge. 0.7%
- Sniffing around Search the trunk of 30 cars 0.7%
- Yippe-ki-yay Find John's Christmas present. 0.7%
- Message in the windshield Write 30 tickets to badly parked cars. 0.6%