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Children of a Dead Earth
Give it 20 hours
Gets good by 20h then rated almost like by veterans
Started playing 78% of owners
Steam reviews 90% positive of 945
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 4 reviews are negative (25%); after 20h it's 1 in 30 (4%).
- Few early reviews, so this is a rough estimate.
- 78% 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.
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Based on all 951 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 25.1h for positive, 4.2h 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 (77.8% 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 (9)
- Fresh Recruit Completed at least one level. 100%
- Battle Tested Emerged victorious from at least one combat. 89%
- Surgical Striker Used a precision strike to disarm an enemy craft. 55%
- Warfare Technician Unlocked Ship Design through combat. 37%
- Battle Engineer Unlocked Module Design through combat. 21%
- Lone Wolf Defeated an entire gas giant system with a single ship. 6.8%
- Bronze Beat the game. 6.0%
- Silver Beat the game with Silver on all levels. 2.7%
- Gold Beat the game with Gold on all levels. 1.8%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-20.