2021 · Science · Sandbox · Education
How long isThrive?
by Revolutionary Games Studio
5.5 hours
for the typical playerhalf of them between 3 hours and 12 hours
A bargain: 91¢ an hour, cheaper than 244 of 305 sandbox games here.
75% recommend it at 0 to 2 hours
93% recommend it at 2 to 5 hours
95% recommend it at 5 to 10 hours
97% recommend it at 10 to 20 hours
Does Thrive hold up?
Holds steady
At least 93% of its Steam reviewers recommend it at every stage from 2 to 20 hours played.
Earned when at least 90% of a game's Steam reviewers recommend it at every stage past the first two hours, counted over three or more stages of 200 reviews each, with no stage 5 points below an earlier one. Every game that holds it.
Do the first two hours of Thrive tell you?
In the first two hours75%recommend it
After that95%recommend it
11 of every 20 thumbs-down came after the window had closed, 9 while a refund was still possible.
How this is counted
Half of its Steam reviewers had played 5.5 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 3 hours and 12 hours.
One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 1,790 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.
It holds steady: between 93% and 97% recommend it at every stage past the first two hours.
14% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 75% of those recommend it. After the window, 95% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 55% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 2.5 hours in.
When would you get there?
6days
At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 5.5 hours on Tuesday, October 27.
Half of its reviewers had played between 3 and 12 hours: Oct 24 to Nov 2 at this pace.
How this is counted
The typical player's hours are the hours Steam reviewers had played when they wrote their review, not a time to beat. The days count from today, playing the hours the pace says on each day.
Is Thrive worth it?
Video Game Backlog
One hour, at list price
Thrive
- Steam list price, US
- $4.99
- Typical player
- ÷ 5.5 h
- sandbox game rate
- $2.12/h
- 5.5 h at that rate
- $12
List price. Not a sale price,
not what anyone paid.
Is Thrive worth it? Yes.
A steal
2.3× the hours of a typical sandbox game, for the same money
Loved
95% recommend it after the refund windowmost sandbox games: 91%
How this is counted
At Steam's US list price of $4.99, the typical player's 5.5 hours come to 91¢ an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 95% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. At 91¢ an hour, Thrive is cheaper per hour than 244 of 305 sandbox games here: the typical one of 305 sandbox games here charges $2.12, so the same $4.99 buys 2.3× the hours.
The price is Steam's US list price for the game by itself: not a sale price, a bundle or what anyone paid. The hours are the ones its reviewers had played, not a time to beat. Its kind (sandbox games) is what the game is first, as a model that knows games named it once from a list of Steam's kinds (for a game it did not know, its strongest Steam tags name it), among the kinds with at least 20 priced games here; failing that, by its Steam genre. The going rate is the middle hourly cost of those games, and the receipt prices its typical hours at it. The words beside it compare it with its kind: loved is 90% recommending it or more, liked 80%, mixed 65%; it gets played when a quarter fewer of the owners read here never launched it than of its kind's typical game. Whether it holds up is drawn on the hours road above, and counts toward the one-word answer.
Would you like Thrive?
Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like Thrive, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long Thrive would take you. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.
How this is counted
It reads how long you tend to stay: across every game you've played whose typical hours it knows (free games left out), how often you went past the typical player and how often you left before half their hours. It glows when you often stay past them, dims when you often leave early, and needs five played games to read at all. Then it shows the games you own most like this one, by the same measure as the shelf of games like it, each with your hours against the typical player's.
Why not a forecast for this game: on 36,766 Steam libraries, how a player did on games like one told little beyond how long they stay in games at all, so those games are shown as evidence and never scored. Nothing of the library is kept.
Games like Thrive
How this is counted
Its own series apart, where it plays alike; then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the better known ahead among the about as alike. A model that knows games read the list once: the ones it said do not play like this game are left out, the closest come first. Under each name, what sets it apart from Thrive: a kind of game it is that Thrive is not, a feature its tags carry that Thrive's barely do, how many hours people play it, how its reviewers feel. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.