ReCore: Definitive Edition

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 1,753 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 298 reviews: 11.5h for positive, 6.8h 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 (85.7% 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 (73)

• Ding! Leveled Up a Corebot 100%
• Yoink! Extract a Core from an enemy 97%
• Rapid Removal Perform an instant extract 95%
• End of the Beginning Completed the Granite Steps 92%
• Workbench Apprentice Craft a Part 89%
• Matched! Kill an Enemy by Color Matching 81%
• Safe Harbor Find the Entrance to Pylon 512 77%
• Color Cannon Upgraded Joule's Energy Rifle 74%
• Juggler Achieve a Combo of 20 74%
• Terraformer Restored power to Pylon 512 67%
• Stronger And Stronger Use Core Fusion to increase a stat on any Core 67%
• Let's Do This, Violet! Use a Fast Travel station 63%
• Core Catcher Extract 25 Cores 60%
• Core Collector Extract 50 Cores 42%
• Charged Up Cause over 10000 Damage in one hit 39%
• The More The Merrier Seth Joins Joule's Crew 39%
• Affinity Matrix Find all of the Color Affinity Attachments 35%
• Workbench Adept Craft 10 Parts 34%
• So You're Victor Complete Core Foundry 33%
• Three's Company Duncan Joins Joule's Crew 30%
• That'll Leave A Mark Smash something using the AP-3 Frame 30%
• Dressed For Success Outfit a Corebot with a completed Part Set of any type 28%
• Core Connoisseur Extract 100 Cores 27%
• Sand Scratcher Dig up 10 items using a K-9 Frame 26%
• Sticky Fingers Perform 20 Instant Extractions 24%
• Tank Girl Unlock the T8-NK Frame 23%
• Identity Crisis Put Mack into a non K-9 Frame 22%
• Ready for Takeoff Make a FL1-R Frame 19%
• Toxic Transit Complete The Warren 19%
• Paradise Central Get to the E-Tower 18%
• Workbench Artisan Crafted 25 Parts 18%
• And Stay Down! Defeat Victor at the Bottom of the E-Tower 16%
• Orb Wrangler Complete ‘Tumbledown’ dungeon 14%
• Master Juggler Achieve a Combo of 40 14%
• Dune Demolisher Dig up 20 items using a K-9 Frame 12%
• All The Monies Collect 50000 E-Turner 11%
• Cradle Robber Find all Hardware pickups in The Cradle 11%
• Journey's End Complete all Story Missions 10%
• Workbench Wonder Craft 50 Parts 9.6%
• Light As A Feather Glide for 20 continuous seconds using an FL1-R Frame 8.8%
• Never Felt Better Upgrade Joule's health to its maximum 8.3%
• Light in the Dark Complete ‘Well of Shadows’ dungeon 7.9%
• Locked And Loaded Max out Joule's Energy Rifle level 7.8%
• All Grown Up Max out a Friendly Corebot to level 30 7.7%
• All Fired Up Complete ‘Brimstone Cut’ dungeon 7.4%
• Bargain Basin Find all Hardware pickups in Lonely Basin after Pylon 512 is repaired 7.4%
• Well Fed Max out one friendly Core through Core Fusion 6.5%
• Acid Free Complete ‘The Scalding Cell’ dungeon 6.1%
• Tanks, Buddy! Command each Core companion to do a T8-NK Lethal 5.5%
• For the Revolution! Find all of Violet's log book entries 5.1%
• Exclusion Zoner Find all Hardware pickups in The Shifting Sands 5.0%
• Black Eye of Obsidian Defeat the leader of the Obsidian Cult 4.8%
• Prismatic Perfection Find all Prismatic Cores 4.6%
• Like a Rocket Clear ‘Tumbledown’ dungeon within 180 seconds 4.0%
• Love You, Kiddo Find all of Thomas Adams's Diary log book entries 4.0%
• Air Cover Complete ‘Blast Canyon’ dungeon 3.9%
• Lesser Demon Complete ‘Devil’s Dance’ dungeon 3.6%
• Trial Run Complete ‘Stockpile Surge’ dungeon 3.6%
• Sparring Match Complete ‘Needle Nest’ dungeon 3.5%
• Spelunker Complete Every Dungeon once 3.3%
• Air Superiority Clear all objectives in ‘Blast Canyon’ dungeon 3.2%
• Big Game Hunter Complete all Hunting Challenges in one category 3.2%
• Core Swapper Use every Lethal combination 3.0%
• Dust Devil Find all of Natalie Bright's log book entries 2.9%
• Championship Bout Clear all objectives in ‘Needle Nest’ dungeon 2.8%
• Course Record Clear all objectives in ‘Stockpile Surge’ dungeon 2.8%
• Descent into Madness Find all of Julius Roldán's log book entries 2.8%
• Demon Lord Clear all objectives in ‘Devil’s Dance’ dungeon 2.7%
• The Architect Find Every Blueprint set 2.7%
• Starving Sea Surveyor Find all Hardware Pickups in the Starving Sea 2.6%
• I Kan Lobb Kill an enemy corebot with a Lobb Shot that spends 3 seconds in flight 2.5%
• Split Focus Kill 3 enemy corebots in less than 1 second with the Split Shot 2.5%
• Chrome-tastic Kill 3 enemy corebots in less than 1 second with the Chrome Shot 2.3%