4 hours
for the typical playerhalf of them between 1.5 hours and 8 hours
90% recommend it at 0 to 2 hours
95% recommend it at 2 to 5 hours
97% recommend it at 5 to 10 hours
97% recommend it at 10 to 20 hours
98% recommend it at 20 to 50 hours
Does World of Goo hold up?
It holds steady: between 95% and 98% recommend it at every stage past the first two hours.
How long would it take you?
Your Steam profile link or name: where you are in World of Goo, and how long the rest is at your own pace. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.
Nobody holds this page yet
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Public pages here, by the hours Steam has on this game. From two hours up, the most hours holds the page.
Is World of Goo worth it?
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One hour, at list price
World of Goo
- Steam list price, US
- $14.99
- Typical player
- ÷ 4 h
List price. Not a sale price,
not what anyone paid.
- 97%recommend it once the refund window has closed
- 95–98%at every stage past two hours: it holds steady
- 13 of 58Steam libraries read here that own it never launched it
Do the first two hours of World of Goo tell you?
In the first two hours90%recommend it
After that97%recommend it
8 of every 20 thumbs-down came after the window had closed, 12 while a refund was still possible.
32% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 90% of those recommend it. After the window, 97% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 42% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 1.5 hours in.
World of Goo holds up

Holds up
At least 95% of its Steam reviewers recommend it at every stage from 2 to 50 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.
Made this game? Put the seal on your site.
<a href="https://www.videogamebacklog.com/game/world-of-goo#seals"><img src="https://www.videogamebacklog.com/game/world-of-goo/seal/holds-up.png" width="160" height="160" alt="World of Goo: Holds up. At least 95% of its Steam reviewers recommend it at every stage from 2 to 50 hours played."></a>Did everyone who owns World of Goo play it?
13 of 58
Steam libraries read here that own it never launched it
How well is World of Goo remembered?
1 in 163
Name 100 runs say its name, 0.6% of them: players asked to name 100 games from memory.
More games as short as World of Goo
How this page counts
- The hours
- Half of its Steam reviewers had played 4 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 1.5 hours and 8 hours. One bead is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 6,560 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.
- The price
- At Steam's US list price of $14.99, the typical player's 4 hours come to $3.75 an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 97% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. 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.
- Everyone's copy
- Counted from the Steam libraries read here, not from all of Steam's players.