Lamplight City

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 884 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 298 reviews: 12.4h for positive, 6.2h 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 (51.9% 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 (41)

• Don't Quit Your Day Job Read Madame DuPrée's poems 100%
• Not What It Looks Like Learned about Mrs. Davis's hobby 83%
• A Kind Ear Told Angela Maxwell about your problems 76%
• Civic Duty You voted! 74%
• Devil Incarnate Revealed Madame DuPrée's true nature 72%
• It's A Boy, Mrs. Walker, It's A Boy Accuse Linda Walker of kidnapping the Harris baby 72%
• Wrong Side Of The Tracks Successfully located Linda Walker 70%
• Broadening Horizons Gave Charlotte Robineaux a music lesson 67%
• Enlightened Completed the game 67%
• Model Husband Told Adelaide the truth 64%
• Flew The Coop Discovered the truth about the cooping scheme 62%
• The Art Of Murder Accused Roger DeVay of murdering Desiree Lathan 60%
• Mistaken Identity Accused Tom Puffin of murdering Ronan L'Espaye 58%
• Getting The Jump Confronted the Justice Killer in his own home 57%
• Storyteller Told Patrick a story 53%
• What Can You Tell Me About...Voodoo? Got kicked out of Sabine Martin's apartment 52%
• Bookworm Read every book in the game 50%
• Perfect Run Correctly solved every case 45%
• Egotistical Spoke with Roland Deveraux 38%
• Man Of Your Word Kept your promise to Mrs. Hanbrook 37%
• Dead End Declared a case unsolvable 30%
• Total Ash-hole Showed Desiree's ashes to someone who wasn't Dr. Edwards 30%
• I'm Bobbin, Are You My Mother? Played a familiar melody 26%
• These Violent Delights... Accused Juliette Montgomery of Madame DuPrée's attempted murder 25%
• Repairman Fixed the boiler without any help 23%
• Supernatural Concluded that Desiree Lathan's death was due to spontaneous human combustion 23%
• Do Not Pass Go Ended up in jail 20%
• Thorough Found every single clue and document in the game 19%
• Inside Joke Every friendship has one 19%
• Ring My Bell You're so annoying 18%
• Bless You Tricked Jonas Usher 17%
• He's Your Guy Accused Guy Dumas of Madame DuPrée's attempted murder 16%
• Jilted Lover Accused Jimbo of murdering Ronan L'Espaye 16%
• Methinks He Doth Protest Too Much Accuse Arthur Devins of kidnapping the Harris baby 15%
• Occam's Razor Accused Albert Martin of Madame DuPrée's attempted murder 14%
• Totally Nuts Accused Margaret Andrews of murdering Desiree Lathan 14%
• Don't Bet On It Accused Malcolm Harris of kidnapping his own son 13%
• Down Among The Dead Men Sang a popular drinking song 13%
• Room With A View Checked yourself into Riverview Asylum 6.0%
• I Forgot It Was There Played through the entire game without opening the casebook 3.5%
• Nosy Eavesdropped on every conversation 3.5%