Occupy Mars: The Game
The first 3 hours are a test
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (66%); after 20h it's almost 1 in 4 (22%).
- Fully opens up by hour 7.
- The opening is criticised more than in 94% of games we track.
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- 78% 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 3,199 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 296 reviews: 73h for positive, 44h 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 (78.5% 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 (46)
story milestone ending side
- Occupy Mars! Start the campaign 100%
- Houston we have a problem Survive the disaster of Alpha base 48%
- Fear my botany powers, Mars Planting for the first time 42%
- I don't feel so good Don't get enough sleep 39%
- Electrician Connect all slots in ECU 35%
- Zero Waste Collect 200 fragments of the old base remains 34%
- Bob The Builder Build 50 Buildings 32%
- I am the greatest botanist on this planet. First harvest 32%
- Gardener Plant 50 seeds with the planting tool 30%
- Get your hands dirty Use the Workbench to fix a broken PCB 29%
- Miner Drill 50 rocks 25%
- Detective Use spectral detector 50 times 22%
- The Collector Collect and use 20 Blueprints 20%
- Space Forest Plant 4 trees inside the dome 20%
- “Aliens” Find the "Aliens" 18%
- All Wheel Trouble Destroy the quad bike 18%
- de_dust Clean 50 objects with air compressor 17%
- ITS crash site Visit the crash site 15%
- Plumber Connect all slots in pump station 15%
- One does not simply... Get to the Olympus Mons 12%
- Thunderstruck Get struck by a thunder 12%
- Tech Expert Upgrade one of the tech trees to max 10%
- Caveman Explore the caves of Olympus Mons 9.4%
- Planetary Defence Use the anti-meteor launcher 9.4%
- Explosive Miner Blow up some rocks 5.6%
- Rocket Jump Jump on a quad bike with a booster 5.2%
- Hard Landing Crash with a jetpack that nearly kills you 5.1%
- To infinity and beyond! Fly a jetpack 10km 4.7%
- Driver's License "Learn" to remotely control the Heavy Rover 3.1%
- Bull’s eye Get hit by a meteorite 2.5%
- Korolev crater Visit the snow crater 2.0%
- Rover Mechanic Fix the totally destroyed Rover 1.7%
- Let's Cook Use the Chemlab to heat a test-tube 1.5%
- You've got a friend in me Assemble Spotty for the first time 1.4%
- 5G Network Build and power a network of 5 antennas 1.3%
- Roadster Find the Roadster 1.1%
- Historical Places Visit historical landing sites 1.0%
- Party Time! Try to make alcohol 1.0%
- Hot Repairs Try to fix a methane tank with a blowtorch 0.9%
- Never Ending Story? 4 corridors connected together 0.8%
- Rocket Scientist Launch a rocket 0.6%
- The cake is a lie Spotty dies 0.5%
- Cooking Vegetables Set your greenhouse on fire 0.5%
- Good Martian Pet Spotty 10 times 0.4%
- Life on Mars The colonists arrive 0.3%
- Dumb ways to die Die in 20 different ways 0.1%