Approaching Infinity

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 757 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 296 reviews: 18.2h for positive, 1.9h 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 (73.7% 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 (82)

• Prosperity Tax Pay a docking fee 100%
• Woops Trigger a trap 67%
• Exterminator Kill 100 planet monsters 61%
• Walkabout Land on 10 unexplored planets 54%
• Don't Come Any Closer! Kill 25 Monsters With Melee 52%
• Well-Dressed Collect 20 Uniforms. 49%
• Salvage Team Dock with 5 shipwrecks 48%
• L'il Questy Complete 10 quests 47%
• Spelunking For Dummies Reach cave depth 3 46%
• Merchant Sell 1000 commodities 43%
• Intrepid Explorer Take 100 points of environmental damage 43%
• Xeno-Archaeologist Recover a Firax Artifact 42%
• Compromised Immune System Contract 3 diseases 40%
• Asteroid Miner Mine 100 asteroids 39%
• Grok-a-mon Fully "grok" a monster. 37%
• Gateway To The Stars! Reach sector 10 35%
• Cryptologist Identify a firax artifact 32%
• For A Rainy Day Have $1 million at any time 32%
• Bunny Lover Pet 10 Bunnies 31%
• What's In A Name? Talk to the "Syndicate" Liaison in sector 9. 29%
• Mod Master Mod an item or skill in crafting 28%
• No Vacancy Have 6 officers at one time 28%
• EX-TER-MI-NATE! Kill 1000 planet monsters 28%
• Listen To Riker The Captain Died On An Away Mission 27%
• Help Wanted Hire 50 new crew 27%
• Data Collector Have 100,000 data at any time 25%
• Stylish Collect 60 Uniforms. 21%
• Shipwreck Takeover Create a custom ship class from a repaired shipwreck. 21%
• Lost And Found Complete 50 quests on Medium+ 20%
• Trade In Buy A New Ship At The Shipyard 19%
• Advanced Spaceforming Clear 250 asteroid belts or nebula 18%
• Pirate Killer Destroy 100 pirates 16%
• Juggernaut Install 3 weapons and 6 devices at once 15%
• Intermediate Spelunking Reach cave depth 9 15%
• Walk-In Closet Collect 100 Uniforms. 12%
• Xeno-Zoologist Catalog 100 creatures in the bestiary. 8.7%
• Architect's Assistant Unlock unlimited asteroid bases. 8.4%
• I CAN Build It! Craft 50 items 8.0%
• Gruff Fighter Destroy 100 gruff 6.9%
• Pest Control Kill 50 Narcratu 6.5%
• Master Cryptologist Identify 10 firax artifacts 6.0%
• Officer Training Program Promote an Officer To Commander 5.6%
• Relic Hunter Recover a legendary weapon. 5.3%
• Not That Hungry! Destroy 100 eaters 4.6%
• Master Spelunker Reach cave depth 20 4.5%
• Revenge! Destroy 50 bankers 4.3%
• Close Your Account Start a game withdrawing 100% of your pay it forward, at least 1,000,000 credits. 4.1%
• Seasoned Explorer Reach sector 100 4.1%
• Master Archaeologist Recover 20 firax artifacts 3.8%
• Mercenary Complete 250 quests 3.5%
• Is it an amulet or a ring? Destroy The Amulet! 3.3%
• Hey You, Want To Fight? Complete All Gruff Quests 3.1%
• An Uncomplicated Life Complete All Sigorn Quests 2.8%
• F The Police! Destroy 100 limoquee 2.6%
• The Nanopocalypse Has Begun! Create a nano-planet. 2.6%
• Economic Victory Complete the Bankers Quest Line 2.4%
• Military Victory Complete the Resistance Quest Line 2.4%
• Technological Victory Complete the Tentaculons Quest Line 2.2%
• Faster than a... Have both your ship and away team speed at or above 325. 2.2%
• Enter Sector 50 Wait, you can actually get *in* to sector 50? 2.0%
• Targets Of Opportunity Destroy 100 sigorn 1.9%
• Transcendence Victory Complete the Firaxughinian Quest Line 1.6%
• Where (Almost) No One Has Gone Before! Reach sector 1000 1.6%
• Virtual Victory Complete the Vordalene Quest Line 1.2%
• ROGUELIKE! Return The Amulet To Sector 1 1.2%
• Minimum Safe Distance Use a tac-nuke weapon *without* hurting yourself. 1.2%
• Political Victory Complete the Unifiers Quest Line 1.1%
• Destroy All Robots! Destroy 100 vordalene 1.1%
• Grok-a-thon Grok 100 monsters! 0.9%
• Self Sufficient Reach sector 20 without docking with any space stations. 0.9%
• Sector 50 Mystery Solved I never would have thought...wait, what? 0.9%
• A Pirate's Life For Me Complete All Pirate Quests 0.8%
• Law And Order Complete All Limoquee Quests 0.8%
• Crisis Averted Defeat the nanopocalypse. 0.8%
• Prosper, Having Lived Long Win without losing a single crew member! 0.7%
• Agnostic Destroy 100 monk ships 0.7%
• Religious Victory Complete the Monks Quest Line 0.5%
• Taste Of Victory Complete the Eaters Quest Line 0.5%
• Demi-Deicide! Destroy 50 firaxughinians 0.4%
• Self-Hatred Destroy 100 resistance 0.4%
• For Science! Destroy 100 tentaculons 0.4%
• Peace Is Not The Answer! Destroy 100 unifiers 0.3%