SimulationStrategy
Little Big Workshop
Give it 5 hours
Gets good by 5h then rated almost like by veterans
Fully opens up by 20h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 85% of owners
Steam reviews 84% positive of 3,405
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (51%); after 20h it's 1 in 11 (9%).
- Fully opens up by hour 20.
- The opening is criticised more than in 79% of games we track.
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- 85% 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 3,421 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 26.6h for positive, 9.1h 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 (85.3% 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 (49)
story milestone ending side
- Hi Steve! Unlocked Crazy Steve. 100%
- Educated foreman Complete the tutorial. 92%
- Starting out Have a factory older than 10 days. 83%
- Mastermind Plan a product before accepting a contract. 75%
- Expansions! Expand your factory by building a new room. 71%
- Generic furniture company Unlocked Swekia. 70%
- Bronze Milestone Complete the bronze milestone set 64%
- Creative accounting Survive having less than zero money. 63%
- Silver Milestone Complete the silver milestone set 43%
- Too cool for school Skip the tutorial 42%
- Show me the money! Raise current funds to 100.000. 40%
- Get PUMPED! Unlocked Bros N Biceps. 39%
- Brand name product Sell a product worth more than 2500. 38%
- Horrible working conditions Have five collapsed workers at the same time. 35%
- Steve's Best Friend Completed Crazy Steve's final challenge. 34%
- Sweatshop Have 20 basic workstations at the same time. 33%
- Furniture dominance Completed Swekia's final challenge. 32%
- Senior position Have a factory older than 180 days. 32%
- Shady deals Unlocked IncoInc. 30%
- Center of attention Link a billboard to five workstations. 30%
- Wood Specialist Research your way to wood production excellence. 29%
- Massive order Deliver more than 50 products to the market. 29%
- Metal Specialist Research your way to metal production excellence. 27%
- Caffeine overdose Have three break rooms at the same time. 25%
- Oil stains Unlocked Mitzurella. 23%
- Gold Milestone Complete the gold milestone set 22%
- Plastic specialist Research your way to plastic production excellence. 21%
- Totally ripped Completed Bros N Biceps' final challenge. 18%
- Eventful year Have a factory older than 365 days. 14%
- Champion Milestone Complete the champion milestone set 13%
- Explorer Unlocked all plots. 13%
- WROOOOM! Completed Mitzurella's final challenge. 10%
- Swimming in money Raise current funds to 1.000.000. 9.8%
- G-Man Completed IncoInc's final challenge. 7.9%
- Tycoon Reach factory level 40. 4.6%
- Super Ninja Sabotage! Use sneaky sabotage to inflict at least 50 damage 3.8%
- Workplace Encouragement Have a single Overlord shout at more than 20 workers 3.5%
- Apprentice on lockdown Move up to the second tier of opponents. 3.3%
- Corporate Menace Move up to the third tier of opponents. 2.8%
- Cosplay Unlock evil worker appearance 2.7%
- Going for the top! Finally set up to face Bladh and conquer the corporate ladder. 2.3%
- Phoenix Rising Reform a bankrupt company 2.1%
- The apprentice becomes the master! Beat Bladh! 2.0%
- Evil Genius Research all of the evil techs 1.9%
- Lazy Pete In any given week he will do about 15 minutes of real actual work. 1.8%
- Master of Puppets Own all the competitors at the same time 1.5%
- Portal 3 Own 3 portals 1.4%
- Pacifist Complete the game without sabotaging anyone 1.1%
- Private Investigator Associate Complete every unique special sabotage 0.8%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-19.