CasualIndieStrategy
Buggos
Give it 1 hour
Gets good by 1h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 5h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 82% of owners
Steam reviews 88% positive of 1,437
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (47%); after 7h it's 1 in 14 (7%).
- Fully opens up by hour 5.
- Few early reviews, so this is a rough estimate.
- 82% 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 1,449 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 300 reviews: 10.6h for positive, 4.4h 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 (82.3% 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 (25)
- Defeat Area 1 Conquer the world part 1. 100%
- Defeat Area 2 Conquer the world part 2. 84%
- Defeat Area 3 Conquer the world part 3. 76%
- Remember the Titans Hatch your first Titan. 70%
- Defeat Area 4 Conquer the world part 4. 67%
- All That Glitters Spawn a Golden Swarmer. 61%
- Defeat Area 5 Conquer the world part 5. 60%
- It’s Swarming Time Unlock all swarm capacity upgrades. 60%
- Defeat Area 6 Conquer the world part 6. 53%
- Mistakes were made! Start the Return of the Humans DLC! 48%
- Defeat a Mech! Their weakness appears to be overwhelming damage… 46%
- Defeat Area 7 Conquer the world part 7. 36%
- The Easy Way Conquer the filthy Humans on the Easy difficulty. 31%
- Defeat Area 8 Conquer the world part 8. 29%
- The Relaxed Way Conquer the filthy Humans on the Relaxed difficulty. 28%
- The Standard Way Conquer the filthy Humans on the Standard difficulty. 26%
- Defeat Area 9 Conquer the world part 9. 25%
- Survive for 10 waves! They wont take us alive! 22%
- Gotta Evolve Them All Unlock every bug at once in the evolution chamber. 22%
- Survive for 20 waves! We live on the blood of our enemies! 15%
- Survive for 30 waves! THEY JUST KEEP COMING! 11%
- Survive for 40 waves! AH GOD WHY ARE THEY GETTING SO STRONG! 10%
- Survive for 50 waves! all i know is pain... 9.4%
- The Hard Way Conquer the filthy Humans on the Hard difficulty. 7.4%
- The Impossible Way Conquer the filthy Humans on the Impossible difficulty. 5.8%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-20.