Your comment got me curious, so I did some digging. Unfortunately Steam caps out filtering reviews at “above 100”, so I couldn’t find a way to get data on the difference between 100-200 hour players vs 500-1000 hour players for example. But I broke it down by 0-24 hours, 25-49 hours, 50-99 hours, and 100+ hours to see the results.

Unsurprisingly, folks who played it for less than 25 hours liked it the least, with an average of 50% positive reviews. This is also the largest sample size by far, accounting for 51,686 of the 93.542 reviews (only counting people who purchased it through Steam, they don’t share data for copies obtained by a key).

More surprisingly however, for the next three data sets (25-49, 50-99, and 100+), order themselves naturally from “most positive sentiment to least”. Essentially, the longer you play it after 25 hours, the more likely you are to rate it negatively.

Breaking it down: 0-25 hours: 50% positive reviews out of 51,686 players. 25-49 hours: 69% positive reviews out of 34.644 players 50-99 hours: 64% positive reviews out of 30,775 players 100+ hours: 61% positive reviews out of 22,800 players.

Oh, and because I just reread your comment, I check out the 1-10 hour players as well, and your guess there was accurate. 40% positive reviews out of the 27,316 players in that range.

While this is far from a “definitive scientific test”, the data on Steam seems to indicate that among people who liked the game enough to put significant time into it, the more they played, the less the were to like it.

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