SimulationStrategy
Pizza Connection 3
The first 3 hours are a test
Gets good by 3h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 5h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 89% of owners
Steam reviews 50% positive of 1,114
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours most reviews are negative (72%); after 5h it's almost 1 in 2 (45%).
- Fully opens up by hour 5.
- The opening is criticised more than in 97% of games we track.
- 89% 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 1,123 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 295 reviews: 8.5h for positive, 3.9h 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 (89.3% 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 (29)
- Your first Recipe! Create your first pizza! 100%
- Set up Shop! Your first restaurant! 86%
- Badabing! Get a rating above 75% for all citizen types in one restaurant. 83%
- Rookie Create 10 pizzas 71%
- Baby Steps Earn an overall profit of 50000$ 67%
- Stand out! Create your first brand! 65%
- I care for Hipsters! Create a vegan pizza 49%
- From Hero to Zero Go bankrupt! 43%
- Millionaire Earn an overall profit of 1000000$ 28%
- Knowledge is Power Research everything! 23%
- Spoil the Broth Play against 3 enemies 16%
- Ain't Bankrupt Yet... Get a loan of 50,000$ 15%
- Skadoosh! Perform 10 sabotages successfully! 12%
- Chef Create 100 pizzas 9.6%
- A Pizza for her Majesty Complete all story chapters in London 8.7%
- Holy Trinity Hire mascots of every type in one game session 7.4%
- Didgeridoo Complete all story chapters in Sydney 4.6%
- Capital of Pizza Complete all story chapters in Rome 4.5%
- Ich bin ein Berliner! Successfully complete a game in Berlin 3.8%
- Stars and Slices Complete all story chapters in Washington 3.4%
- In Between Find and click the 2nd best game in the world 2.8%
- Campaign Completed You completed the campaign! Very nice. 2.7%
- City of Love Complete all story chapters in Paris 2.7%
- Favorite Ingredients Discover all favorite ingredients for all citizen types in one game! 2.2%
- Leftover Successfully complete a game in Madrid 1.3%
- Guido Michelino Create 500 pizzas 0.9%
- Hippie Connection Find and click on the secret hippie bus! 0.9%
- Flappy Pizza Reach 100 points in flappy pizza 0.7%
- Never Do It for Free! Successfully complete 10 missions in Free Mode. 0.6%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-20.