Thimbleweed Park™
Give it 10 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 4 reviews are negative (26%); after 15h it's 1 in 25 (4%).
- Fully opens up by hour 15.
- Few early reviews, so this is a rough estimate.
- 41% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “Part 2” (Begin Part Two) and “Part 3” (Begin Part Three): from 98% to 64% of starters.
- 97% 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 4,268 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 15.6h for positive, 8.8h 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 (96.6% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Part 1 Begin Part One. 100%
- Part 2 Begin Part Two. 98% −2
- Part 3 Begin Part Three. Most players quit here 64% −34
- Part 4 Begin Part Four. 54% −10
- Part 5 Begin Part Five. 49% −5
- Part 6 Part Six: The Factory. 49%
- Part 7 Part Seven: The Madness. 46% −3
- Part 8 Part Eight: The Escape. 45% −1
- Part 9 Part Nine: The Deleting. 45%
- Last One Out Stayed for all the credits. 41% −4
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (33)
story milestone ending side
- Part 1 Begin Part One. 100%
- Part 2 Begin Part Two. 98%
- *Beephole* Complete Ransome's Flashback. 79%
- Out Of The Will Complete Delores's Flashback. 71%
- Great Escape Escape from the sewers. 66%
- Part 3 Begin Part Three. 64%
- Secret Meeting Complete Franklin's Flashback. 62%
- Dust Appreciator Collect 25 specks of dust. 55%
- Justice Catch the killer. 54%
- Part 4 Begin Part Four. 54%
- Sky High Get an alive character into the Hotel penthouse. 50%
- Part 5 Begin Part Five. 49%
- Part 6 Part Six: The Factory. 49%
- Part 7 Part Seven: The Madness. 46%
- Itchy Fingers Used Ransome's Itch Cream. 46%
- Part 8 Part Eight: The Escape. 45%
- Part 9 Part Nine: The Deleting. 45%
- Last One Out Stayed for all the credits. 41%
- *Beephole* Mime Pushed the circus mime over. 41%
- Nuke It Blew up the Mansion. 40%
- Dust Collector Collect 50 specks of dust. 40%
- Hotel Tourist Visited every floor in the hotel. 35%
- Hard Won Complete the game in hard mode. 35%
- Buried Treasure Navigated to the buried treasure. 19%
- Dust Hoarder Collected 75 specks of dust. 18%
- Easy Win Complete the game in casual mode. 14%
- Well Informed Read all the Thimbleweed Nickel newspapers. 13%
- Mean Person Make everyone cry about their life. 10%
- *Beephole* Redux Got Ransome's bad ending. 8.1%
- Plantastic Grew Leonard's plant to superhuman size. 7.2%
- Book Worm Read 100 books in the library. 5.3%
- Messy World Didn't pick up any specks of dust. 3.9%
- No One Is Home Listen to 100 Voicemail messages. 3.4%