Void Bastards
Give it 7 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 3 reviews are negative (39%); after 10h it's 1 in 14 (7%).
- Fully opens up by hour 10.
- 21% of players who start reach the ending.
- Most players drop off before “Brown Noser” (Build a Citizen Card): only 53% of starters get there.
- 96% 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 5,484 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 297 reviews: 15.2h for positive, 5.7h 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 (95.6% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Brown Noser Build a Citizen Card. Most players quit here 53% −47
- Human Resource Build the HR Computer. 37% −16
- Chilled Out Build the Water Cooling unit. 28% −9
- Software Pirate Build the Transmitter. 23% −5
- Sorted Escape the nebula, 21% −2
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (24)
story milestone ending side
- Specially Selected Get killed by pirates 100%
- Bodge Job Build an upgrade 94%
- Staff Turnover Rehydrate a second client. 77%
- Swanning Around Pilot S.T.E.V. to nebula depth two. 61%
- Tooled Up Upgrade the regulator 59%
- Brown Noser Build a Citizen Card. 53%
- Lombard Loot a pupbot. 39%
- Human Resource Build the HR Computer. 37%
- Chilled Out Build the Water Cooling unit. 28%
- Software Pirate Build the Transmitter. 23%
- Kippers for Breakfast Blow up a void whale. 22%
- Sorted Escape the nebula, 21%
- Mingin Catch a garbage collector. 21%
- Shiver Their Timbers Survive a pirate encounter. 18%
- Trainspotter Build every upgrade. 8.1%
- Cooking with Gas Escape the nebula on HARD. 4.2%
- Coffin Dodger Escape the nebula on NORMAL or HARD with no deaths. 3.7%
- Cor Blimey! Escape the nebula on HARD BASTARD. 2.3%
- Off the Hook Escape the nebula on HARD BASTARD with no deaths. 1.7%
- Clever Dick Escape the nebula on NORMAL with the ONLY DEVICES restriction. 1.4%
- Squaddie Escape the nebula on NORMAL with the ONLY FIREARMS restriction. 1.3%
- Tight Arse Escape the nebula on NORMAL without building any non progress upgrades. 1.2%
- Mahatma Escape the nebula on NORMAL with the UNARMED restriction. 1.2%
- Guy Fawkes Escape the nebula on NORMAL with the ONLY INDIRECT restriction. 1.2%